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	<title>Getting Something Read &#187; Neal Whitman</title>
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		<title>Just a Suggestion, Okay?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman, Poetry Prof Can we talk? No, let&#8217;s not of graves, of worms, and epitaphs (Richard II, Act III, scene 2), but of editors. Dateline. August 22, 2011: I emailed ten tanka to a journal. Tanka, if you do not know, are five-line poems. November 28: two days before the journal was due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Bluff</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman mist settles on the soft harbor surf sounding gentle ship horn and seal bark in rain on shore under fog we know they are there four buoys below no one on shore but gulls]]></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>Acrostic Ballad of the Sleeping Gypsy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman Gypsy music in a dream Attracts a lion to man and mandolin Rousseau inspires the poet to capture Contours of a ballad in crystalline color It is a dark mysterious song A distant murmur under the moon. &#8220;Let me climb On the mountain, mountain Rumors of warm dawn Come through the olive [...]]]></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>Spring Haiku</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman The Vernal Equinox — This year, a Saturday — 10:32 Pacific Standard Time — In your Time Zone, how about picking that same moment to find a green spot and lie on your back? the breeze a soft kiss house finches lacing the air my sweater a pillow]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Haiku</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman a young house sparrow sits in the empty bird bath early morning rain Neal Whitman is a member of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society of San Jose, the Haiku Poets of Northern California, and the Haiku Society of America. Though contemporaries vary the syllable count, he likes to stick to the traditional [...]]]></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>Summer Haiku, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman Sumer Is icumen in… yes, summer has arrived. To be accurate: at 10:28 a.m. in my time zone (Pacific). Summer seems to me the least complicated of the seasons. It is elemental: unlimited poetry in its simplicity. I expect nothing. Of course, nothing is worth expecting. summer&#8217;s arrival the door bell rings [...]]]></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>Poetry Is My Profession</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman I profess to come and go as I please. Come to a place where my mind and heart are open to what is true. Go somewhere before or after words take place. I profess to take the time and make the space for poetry to happen. Take the time to breathe. Make [...]]]></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>Summer Haiku, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman Due to its concision, there are those who believe haiku is a lesser poem, others a greater poem. As for me, haiku is a &#8220;just right&#8221; poem and the start of summer a &#8220;just right&#8221; season. Thoreau wrote that June was &#8220;the month of grass and leaves,&#8221; and Emerson spoke of its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 Day, 4 elements</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman Wood   ash slat boardwalk welcomes waking walkers. The wee waking hour. Fire    midday heat. Sip ice tea with old friend. Rest, then talk. He&#8217;s right. Earth    late afternoon. With sun low on deep bay. pelicans ride wind waves home. Metal    evening song. Coots find their way into reeds [...]]]></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>Autumn Haiku</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 18:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></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>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>Spring Haiku &#8211; 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Whitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Neal Whitman Spring Water… a bottled drink or the weather? Spring Rain… a bath &#38; shower gel or a romantic walk? Whatever! It is a change of season, so it is time for haiku. We started the 2011 haiku annual cycle feature indoors with a spinning wheel. Now, with the vernal equinox, we head outdoors, [...]]]></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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