James Spencer

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A little recognition received, now relayed, over to you to respond...Checkout the vispo fun assembled by Shloka Shankar and Robin Smith (co-ed of Whiptail).

Thanks to Yun Wei & GWG!

Got a bit of recognition from Geneva Writer's Group, shortlisted for a poetry prize.

See the winners - I can personally recommend the work of Liz Boquet - who got 3rd place : genevawritersgroup.wildapricot.org/Literary-Pri...

Spot on: but leaves this question for me:

How does Frum's John Q Public not come to see that Trump is not actually a good businessman? Misinformation? Disinformation? Real question.

"Like me"? Trump is not an apt simile for anyone not born to privilege rising to the level of their incompetence.

Monthly Review | Ballade of the Poverties Adrienne Rich is the author of more than sixteen volumes of poetry and five nonfiction prose books, the most recent being A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society (Norton). She is the recipient of…

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I guess it's almost cliché to talk about prescient writers, things that seem to have been written for our moment; but one could do worse than read "The Ballade of the Poverties" by Adrienne Rich, if you're looking for that synchronicity buzz.

49 Contemporary Poets on the Best Poems they Read in 2024 In the sea of endless year-end lists, poetry often seems to get sidelined, or forgotten—or maybe the critics and listmakers just aren’t reading enough poetry in the first place. Which made me…

Who should you ask about the best poems of 2024? Poets, of course. And their picks are all available to read online for free.

After living in a country that borders Lichtenstein for 14 years, I will cautiously agree: that seems to be a misinformed and hyperbolic reaction.

I'm in Switz! (since 2010 btw), I've been teaching public speaking in the autumns, given up on theatre, taken up writing poetry, getting the odd presentation coaching gig...My daughters are 21 and 19, the younger just started her bachelor's in law and my elder, is doing a digital media training

Monday Night Poetry with Jane Huffman (via Zoom) | Hudson Valley Writers Center Back by popular demand, Jane Huffman will teach Hudson Valley Writers Center’s Monday night six-week workshop. NB: This class will be taught on Zoom and will be capped at 12 […]

January 13 might feel far away, but my Monday Night Poetry workshop (over Zoom) begins in just one month. I would love to see you there and help you kickstart your new year writing projects. 🌼 Learn more about the class and register here:
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Me, Jenni! How's life?

RIP Nikki Giovanni:
"Reflections on April 4, 1968", a response to MLK's death, was the first poem I ever performed to impact people, spring, freshman year of h.s., 1983. It's first line, as she wrote it:

What can I, a poor Black woman, do to destroy America...

Powerful, cathartic, indelible

Adam & Eve | Gashmius Home

I know James is making waves, I just came across a reference to a book of sonnets by you. Can you please post a link/image?

What's inspiring me? Today it was this: www.gashmiusmagazine.com/from-the-gar...

Thank you for including me!

I'll explain the non-sequitur heading: when I posted this it was after my link to an essay that was a failed poem, also on LPB.

Adam & Eve | Gashmius

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I love it when poetry makes me want to go re-read poems that are familiar AND write my own. Dick Westheimer goes midrash and I'm going to re-read "The Creation" by James Weldon Johnson.

Okay, not quite 50 years ago, just 47! I have a distinct memory of this happening in the Domes, first left off of the entry hall. For some reason French was there, though we would have been in Stage IV if you were 10. There was a piano in that room, b/c I think it was the music room for Stage II.

He said he had something like 12 of these inventions Can you play it again? He did. It was all in his head and hands. I was impressed, still am. Do you remember those things you invented, David?

50 years ago: After a French class, David and I were in a room with a piano. He sat down and started playing these short inventions of his: I didn't know people our age could make music like he was making. I asked him what it was called; he told me a number. What? Then he played another number...

This is by the first composer I ever met, I was about 7 ror 8 at the time. So was he, he was composing then too. 50 years later, David has made a lot of music...Here's some of his latest.

Oh, yeah it has the wackiest visual possible. No loss of humor over the years : )

I just made a starter pack called Poets I Want to Grow Up to Be.

Can anyone explain to me what I have achieved by doing this?

Significant poets I have found in #theflutterverse:
@dseuss.bsky.social
@cphillipspoet.bsky.social
@janehuffman.bsky.social

Who else is here poet-wise?

Is this just pedantry or should I be learning something here 😜

Wondering about how to connect with more poets in this new flutterscape (butterflies flutter, why not?) Anyhow, I had to hear from a third party that Diane Seuss is here...Searching poetry didn't help me ???

Modern Poetry is out today in paperback. 💋

La Piccioletta Barca | Character - by James Spencer Your eye / binds you seriatim, / be you saditty or simple: / tears Mistress Aural from...

And here's an un-failed poem:
www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/charac...

How does one draw in views here in this new flutterscape? Flutterverse?

Never used Twitter or its Muskified demon twin.

Are there hashtags here?

Primary interest: Poetry, writing it and publishing it.

La Piccioletta Barca | Advice to the Players, or Less Method In Our Madness, Please - by James Spencer Affected affects are often applauded. Witness the 24/7-Ages-of-Man Act: its Lead Creep-in-Chief unwilling in ...

This is a failed poem turned into an essay...Btw, this is a terrific online lit journal, and not only b/c they have two of my writings 😜