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		<title>Who Gets the Last Laugh?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 04:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Last month we celebrated April Fools&#8217; Day with a tribute to the &#8220;Ern Malley&#8221; hoax. To recap: two poets, James McAuley and Harold Stewart, published poems they concocted under the name of Ern Malley. I learned of this gag when I decided to fill in a gap in my home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year Haiku</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman first dream of New Year&#8211; five ships at rest on cradles came ashore last night Neal Whitman is a member of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society of San Jose and the Haiku Poets of Northern California. Neal provides us with five seasonal haiku a year; in the Japanese tradition, New Year is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Might Have Started in 1582</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Yes, it might have been the year that the Gregorian Calendar was introduced and New Year&#8217;s Day was moved from April 1 to January 1. News traveled more slowly back then and folks who still got the day wrong were said to be fools. A wonder of the Internet is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Haiku, March, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman March Madness! For many of you, those words bring to mind how wild and woolly the weather can be. The calendar says &#8220;First Day of Spring,&#8221; but you are not ready to fold and put away the extra blanket you spread over the bed last November. For gamblers, March Madness means point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku: oooh … aaah!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Something new this month: footnotes. Not to worry. Nothing here will be on &#8220;The Test.&#8221; It is just that this month&#8217;s profession of what I believe requires a little documentation to credit others. Next month I will return footnote-less and footloose. In the 18th century, while Yosa Buson, dubbed &#8220;Poet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Year … A New Poet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Greek philosopher, Heraclitus (535 &#8211; 475 BCE) is famous for one of the most quoted statements in the history of Western Civilization: &#8220;No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man. ” I am not the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Haiku 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Last year, my seasonal haiku started with roving in a basket that would turn into a scarf. This morning I walked into town with it wound round my neck –– No! Not the roving. The scarf. What&#8217;s new this year? This haiku is inspired by my friend, Richard Platt, whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Haiku 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Okay, dear readers, I admit it. Sometimes I &#8220;make up&#8221; my haiku –– that is, offer images I imagined. But, this morning, on my &#8220;crack of dawn&#8221; round of golf, here on the California Central Coast&#8217;s Monterey Peninsula, I witnessed this. a flock of coots with them ahead of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dieter Rams Principles of Design: 10 into 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Dieter Rams was a German industrial designer whose motto was Weniger, aber besser –– Less, but better. He was Chief of Design for Braun from 1961 to 1995, and many of his designs for kitchen appliances, audio-visual equipment, wrist watches &#38; clocks, shavers, and so on are in museum collections. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Written in Stone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof My Poetry Prof essay was &#8220;in the can,&#8221; that is, ready to send to the queue to be published per the 1st of the month schedule we have adhered to since its inception. I will save that one for next month. For the record, the inaugural essay that welcomed readers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to Micro Poetry: More than May Meet the Eye</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Less than 8 inches. The micro-skirt. Shorter than a mini-skirt. A brief word this month on poetical equivalents. We could say that the Japanese tanka form of five lines is the mini-skirt of poetry. Both aim to cover what is substantial, but nothing more. Likewise the micro-skirt and haiku push the &#8220;less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn Haiku</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof This year the autumn equinox occurs on September 23 in my Time Zone (Pacific) at 2:05 A.M. For reasons way above my pay grade, in the Northern Hemisphere, the actual even split of 12 hours of day and night happens a few days later. This month, of course, marks a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mini Ode to the Sea Gull</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Editor Vinnie Kinsella of Four and Twenty recommended to me a book that changed how he looked at short poetry: Joshua Beckman&#8217;s Your Time Has Come. As an aside, on his website, Kinsella explains that his journal &#8220;publishes the shortest of short form poetry… Our guidelines are simple. All poems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Life in Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.D.K.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006 Here is a lovely poem by Robert Cording, a poet who lives in Connecticut, which shows us a fresh new way of looking at something commonplace. That’s the kind of valuable service a poet can provide. Old Houses Year after year after year I have come to love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Poet&#8217;s Aphorism Is Another One&#8217;s Epigram</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Last spring, The Academy of American Poets got me thinking about two short –– very short –– forms: aphorisms and epigrams. To wit, poet Sharon Dolin, wrote a wonderful article in American Poet, &#8220;Making a Space for Aphorism,&#8221; in which she says that she thinks of aphorisms &#8220;as small journeyings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twice Bold Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Something I love about poetry is being a member of a big family. In part, this is made possible by the Internet. Do you remember &#8220;pen pals&#8221; back in grade school? In the 4th grade I exchanged two or three letters with a boy my age in Brazil. Now I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Life in Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D.S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006 I realized a while back that there have been over 850 moons that have gone through their phases since I arrived on the earth, and I haven’t taken the time to look at nearly enough of them. Here Molly Fisk, a California poet, gives us one of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Kinds of People</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof In April, my title was, Two Kinds of People: Those who believe there are two kinds of people and those who don&#8217;t. A poet-pal commented that actually there are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who cannot. Her addition was predictive. Here is a correction that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working with Wood or Words: Slow down, Look around, and Listen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 05:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman You never know where an Internet search will bring you. In March, I found a wood finisher, George Beck, when I was looking for the exact words of an old prayer: Oh, Lord, thy sea is so vast and my boat so small. Mr. Beck makes wood plaques and that one was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Life in Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D.S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006 I’m fond of poems about weather, and I especially like this poem by Todd Davis for the way it looks at how fog affects whatever is within and beneath it. Veil In this low place between mountains fog settles with the dark of evening. Every year it takes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Kinds of People: Those who believe that there are two kinds of people and those who don&#8217;t.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Explaintory Note: This is a letter to an imaginary chapbook contest publisher. Please do not look for identifying information. I would love posted notes from you, our Readers, to learn if you share my sentiments. Dear Publisher, Thank you for sending my complimentary copy of the chapbook that won your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neither Fish nor Fowl</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof I love the poetry of Keats, so I was intrigued by a book title, Written in Water: The Prose Poems of Luis Cernuda. You see, Keats had chosen his own epitaph: &#8220;Here lies one whose name was writ on water.&#8221; Cernuda&#8217;s translator, Stephen Kessler, remarks that the Spanish poet identified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re For the Birds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, the Poetry Prof fiery sunset twigs rustle with feathers My wife, Elaine, and are a birdwatchers. Yes, I know that it became more cool for these folks to call themselves, &#8220;birders,&#8221; but we still stick to the old-fashioned moniker. And, it is with pride that we say, &#8220;We&#8217;re for the birds.&#8221; Well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Us Sit upon the Ground</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof In November, I did not wait for the New Year to try something new. After thanking the Point Arena, California, Poetry Group for making me their &#8220;Third Thursday&#8221; guest poet, the first words out of my mouth were a poem. No explanation of the poem I was about to read. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something Old, Something New</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 06:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof In October, I referenced Poetry &#38; Writers magazine as a resource to find where to submit your poetry. This month I want to comment on what also fills much of its pages: information on graduate programs and on poetry workshops &#38; conferences. You can open the magazine to any page [...]]]></description>
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