Tag: poetry
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Comorbidity: Expressions of Love
When does love begin? I have a memory that I think is from before I was born, where everything is dense and fluid pressing up against me like an ocean. From this familiarity and safety, a kind of love may have already begun. And who could deny that babies love their mother, that most intimate…
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New Poems from Karen R. Sanderson
Karen Sanderson’s exuberant first collection of poetry, No Boundaries, celebrates her love of family and small town life. From memoir styled free verse to elegant haiku and snappy lymerics, the poet shines a light on the bonds dearest to us all. Strong single mothers and brave soldier sons come close to the reader’s heart with…
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For Mothers Day – Let Me Be a Tree
An excerpt from my novel, American Dream. The character Daniel remembers his mother: “If he could go back in time to when Mother was a child and protect her invisibly throughout her life, he was sure that he would do it. He tried to compose a poem for her during the long ride back. Let…
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Where the Monster Is ~ dVerse Poetry Day
Where the Monster Is the monster is me under careful clothes the monster is me below moving muscles the monster is me hiding deeper than bare bone and haunting caverns of cells inside my experience the monster thinks inside my ideas the monster travels inside my stories the monster exposes himself and is…
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Passion for Storytelling and Rap – The Canterbury Tales Remixed
Somewhere between the classics and rap, is Baba Brinkman’s raw performance art, “The Canterbury Tales Remixed”. Not your school days’ version of Chaucer’s verse and other epic tales, these new hip-hop rhymes changed the way I think about English literature. The show premiered in New York City at the Soho Playhouse. Now, Baba Brinkman is bringing The Canterbury Tales…
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