Short Works for the Peripatetic Web Surfer
From the category archives:
by Neal Whitman the Poetry Prof.
It’s odd what poetry can do for us, and doesn’t do. It can save lives individually, but not collectively. [Charles Wright from his Introduction to The Best American Poetry, 2008. Scribner Poetry, 2008.]
Welcome back to this feature inaugurated one month ago. If you are new, a caveat: I am not [...]
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by Helen Tzagoloff
In the rays of winter sunshine
at four o’clock in the afternoon,
the river is calm, an opal
of greens and blues and reds.
At four fifteen the sky is grey,
the river dark and turbulent.
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It may seem a bit odd that a site dedicated to short works is promoting novel writing, but we love writing in all its forms and NaNoWriMo is just too much fun not to share.
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by Neal Whitman
I lay awake cold.
My left thumb rests on my chin
below chestnut moon.
Neal Whitman is a member of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society of San Jose and the Haiku Poets of Northern California. Though contemporaries vary the syllable count, he likes to stick to the traditional Japanese 5-7-5 structure.
Kingyo are Japanese words associated with [...]
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by Darla Himeles
Last week, a friend noted that a couple of odes I’d written were unusually short and focused for the form. An ode is traditionally longer than twelve lines, after all, and it is usually musing, philosophical, even meandering. It was an observation free from judgment, but it made me curious: what makes an [...]
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CA Women’s Conference. 10/22/08
Over 50,000 ONE members have already signed the “Keep Our Commitemts” petition, letting Barack Obama and John McCain know that we expect them to keep their commitments to the world’s most vulnerable people. Go to ”One.org” to sign the petition and urge your friends and family to do the same.
For more of Bono’s Speach
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