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"Back From The Dead" by Harry Calhoun
I keep a picture on my desk from 23 years ago a photo of myself at the typewriter sitting at an old metal desk in an attic apartment with plaster patches on the sloping walls I look 15 and geeky at 31… more »
Hemingway's Shotgun
"Back From The Dead" by Harry Calhoun
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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 »
"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 »
"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 »
Revisiting Ayn Rand
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wakemenow wrote 6 days ago: Like many others, I read Ayn Rand’s book “Atlas Shrugged” and felt, aside from the … more »
1984
wakemenow wrote 1 month ago: From The Book by Goldstein: Chapter I. Ignorance is Strength. Throughout recorded time, and probabl … more »
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 »
"Another Poem About Poetry" by Harry Calhoun
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 1 month ago: stumbling across old floppy disks like a born-again blackout saved and forgotten some of the file … more »
"The Rumble of the Milk Trucks" by John Martin
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 2 months ago: Connecticut, 1989 The rumble of the milk trucks grinding up Chester Main Road slacking and th … more »
"Back From The Dead" by Harry Calhoun
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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 »
"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 »
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 »
"Ghost Writing Distance in Vowels" by Mr. Zach
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 2 months ago: the first full moon of spring called for me i answered abandoning literatures curse forgotten words … more »
"The Grave of William Wordsworth" by Eric D. Lehman
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 2 months ago: His stone stands stoic, crowded and gray, Shoved into a sleepy cemetery, Squashed, as in life, betwe … more »
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 Jacobs
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 3 months ago: High school newspaper Half-assed attempts at spec screenplays Research assistant for hot-shot movie … more »
The Gender Knot
wakemenow wrote 3 months ago: Just finished reading “The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy” by: Allan G. … more »
"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 »
"The Decline of Verse" by Gary Beck
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 3 months ago: Emotional eunuchs guard the portals of poetry and arbitrarily judge who is allowed to enter. Armed w … more »
"Poetess" by Heather Haley
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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 »
