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"Back From The Dead" by Harry Calhoun1 comment

Rodger Jacobs wrote 1 day ago: I keep a picture on my desk from 23 years ago a photo of myself at the typewriter sitting at an old … more »

Tags: bukowski, Harry Calhoun, Poetry, Poets, Writers, writing

"The Briefcase Vendor" by Christopher Mulrooney

Rodger Jacobs wrote 2 days ago: the speculator at the head of the Poetry Foundation issues a dictum poetry henceforward mortals shal … more »

Tags: Christopher Mulrooney, los angeles poets, Poetry, Poets

"Poetry Rules" by Steven Porter

Rodger Jacobs wrote 2 days ago: Poems can be written without falling into the arms of institutions like Fergusson Without sailing in … more »

Tags: Poetry, Poems, Poets, Steven Porter, poetry rules

Revisiting Ayn Rand5 comments

wakemenow wrote 6 days ago: Like many others, I read Ayn Rand’s book “Atlas Shrugged” and felt, aside from the … more »

Tags: On Anti-Corporate Personhood, On Economics, On Politics, On Power, On Religion & Beliefs, On Self-Expression, On Women, Ayn Rand, Objectivism

1984

wakemenow wrote 1 month ago: From The Book by Goldstein: Chapter I. Ignorance is Strength. Throughout recorded time, and probabl … more »

Tags: On Politics, On Power

Mandatory Viewing

wakemenow wrote 1 month ago: I highly recommend for people to watch the following videos and read the articles if you haven … more »

Tags: On Radical Feminism, On Violence, On Politics, On Race & Ethnicity, On Power, On Women, On Religion & Beliefs, On Anti-Corporate Personhood, On Imagination

"Another Poem About Poetry" by Harry Calhoun2 comments

Rodger Jacobs wrote 1 month ago: stumbling across old floppy disks like a born-again blackout saved and forgotten   some of the file … more »

Tags: Harry Calhoun, Poems, Poetry, Poets

"The Rumble of the Milk Trucks" by John Martin4 comments

Rodger Jacobs wrote 2 months ago: Connecticut, 1989     The rumble of the milk trucks grinding up Chester Main Road slacking and th … more »

Tags: connecticut, John martin, Poetry, Poets, Writers, writing

"Back From The Dead" by Harry Calhoun1 comment

Rodger Jacobs wrote 2 months ago: I keep a picture on my desk from 23 years ago a photo of myself at the typewriter sitting at an old … more »

Tags: bukowski, frost, Harry Calhoun, Poetry, Poets, whitman, Writers, writing

"Women at the Top Are Not Champions of Other Women"

wakemenow wrote 2 months ago: That’s one quote I won’t soon forget. This came from a youtube video of David Rothkopf, … more »

Tags: On Politics, On Power

In Reply to a Burning Question

wakemenow wrote 2 months ago: On A Womyn’s Ecdysis blog, in a post titled “Burning Questions,” Sudy said: … more »

Tags: On Radical Feminism, On Personal Development

"Ghost Writing Distance in Vowels" by Mr. Zach1 comment

Rodger Jacobs wrote 2 months ago: the first full moon of spring called for me i answered abandoning literatures curse forgotten words … more »

Tags: Mr. Zach, Poetry, Poets, Writers, writing

"The Grave of William Wordsworth" by Eric D. Lehman4 comments

Rodger Jacobs wrote 2 months ago: His stone stands stoic, crowded and gray, Shoved into a sleepy cemetery, Squashed, as in life, betwe … more »

Tags: Poetry, Literature, Writers, writing, William Wordsworth, Eric D. Lehman

The Repeated Disappearance of Feminism Throughout History

wakemenow wrote 2 months ago: Along with Marilyn Frye’s book, I’m also now reading Dale Spender’s “Women o … more »

"A Writing Life" by Rodger Jacobs8 comments

Rodger Jacobs wrote 3 months ago: High school newspaper Half-assed attempts at spec screenplays Research assistant for hot-shot movie … more »

Tags: Poetry, Writers, writing, 9/11, porn screenwriting, Screenwriting, Hollywood

The Gender Knot

wakemenow wrote 3 months ago: Just finished reading “The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy” by: Allan G. … more »

Tags: Feminism, Allan Johnson, Gender Knot, Patriarchy, Gender, Oppression!, book

"My Protagonist" by David La Bounty

Rodger Jacobs wrote 3 months ago: you need to make your protagonist more likable someone said of my latest attempt at novel writing im … more »

Tags: Poetry, Poems, writing, Detroit poets. writers

"The Decline of Verse" by Gary Beck4 comments

Rodger Jacobs wrote 3 months ago: Emotional eunuchs guard the portals of poetry and arbitrarily judge who is allowed to enter. Armed w … more »

Tags: Poetry, Poems, New York poets, Gary Beck, the decline of verse

"Poetess" by Heather Haley2 comments

Rodger Jacobs wrote 3 months ago: Gin limber, she lies on her tummy contorting sentences under the lava lamp. No room in the final not … more »

Tags: Poetry, Writers, writing, Poets, Heather Haley, canadian poets


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