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2011: End of the Year Poem & Book Roundup

by Metta Sama December 29, 2011 Poetry and Poetics
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b bearhart, Alexander Long, and Jonterri Gadson name their favorite books and poems from the 2011.

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Poem of the Week: Sridala Swami

by Metta Sama October 31, 2011 Poems of the Week
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[A work of art is a problem]

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Poem of the Week: Roy Pérez

by Metta Sama October 25, 2011 Poems of the Week
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[Lessons in Solitude from Men]

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Poem of the Week: Saeed Jones

by Metta Sama October 20, 2011 Poems of the Week
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[The Blue Dress]

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Poem of the Week: Jonterri Gadson

by Metta Sama October 12, 2011 Poems of the Week
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[To Women Waiting at the Gynecologist]

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Poem of the Week: b bearhart

by Metta Sama October 6, 2011 Poems of the Week
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[He Who Talks With A Fist And The Voyeur]

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Briefly remembering

by Metta Sama February 15, 2010 Poetry and Poetics
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Lucille Clifton said many things outside of poems that felt like poems, and many of us who were blessed to sit in front of her and hear her speak remembers these words.

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{insert shrug}

by Metta Sama February 13, 2010 Poetry and Poetics

Here we are in the early days of Black History Month, churning steadily towards Women’s History Month, & chugging heartily towards National Poetry month; it is 2010. We are ending the Year of the Ox, charging headlong to the Tiger’s year; Valentine’s Day will, for some of us, be (wonderfully) subsumed by Chinese New Year. [...]

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