Category: poetry news
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THE UNNECESSARY ANGEL OF POETRY One-daySoon after the glamor had faded The sun ate all her flowersHer milk & honey As Taylor toured AmericaInspiring poetic amnesiaTo kids As old poems & memoriesDied hard & rotted in their graves The dirt All lost to a McGenerationWithout focus Without hope Rhyming incoherentlyAttempting consciousness As someone randomAn unremarkable…
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Thirty Years Ago Today: 09/26/93 THE DEAD POETS LIST In my lifetime I’ve probably written over ahundred trillion words. But I’d die for just one more cigarette. When the curtain falls, when the moment ceases To be. Sinatra said it best. “That’s Life “ Go out with a bang Not that stupid whimper And leave…
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So here we are. The 21st century. Well well . But since roughly around the 1990s America let alone many other countries really haven’t progressed that much at all … with the exception of the internet & social media. C’mon lets face it. It’s true. We still have poverty, war and high amounts of violence,…
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Is Everything Poetry Now?
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Great Newspaper Article On Albany’s Open Poetry Mic “The School Of Night. 2004 LIVE POETS SOCIETY A VIBRANT OPEN-MIKE SCENE LETS THE REGION’S WORDSMITHS HAVE THEIR SAY JOSEPH DALTON STAFF WRITERSection: ARTS-EVENTS, Page: I1 Sunday, April 18, 2004 The bar is the magnet until poet R.M. Engelhardt takes the stage. Conversations cease, and loners in…
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RUMI’S SECRET & SOULFUL ADVICE ON WRITING Fuck this poem Fuck that poem Fuck it. Now fucking Start over again “Namaste” ~ R.M. Engelhardt RAW Poems 2023
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Populist Manifesto No. 1.” Poets, come out of your closets. Open your windows. Open your doors. You’ve been holed up too long. No time now for our little literary games. No time now for our paranoias and hypochondrias. No time now for fear and loathing. Time now only for light and love. Poets,…
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In the late 1990s & into the early part of this century I created and ran a spoken word poetry open mic called THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT at Valentine’s as well as at a few other locations afterwards in Albany, NY. The open mic was always extremely crowded and popular and we did alot of…
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