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Write a Poegle A Day for National Poetry Month

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:02:56 +0000

So, April is upon us. Days from now we’ll be in the cruellest month. April is also National Poetry Month (for real- there is handy FAQ on this strange observance here). Over at the blog Gourd is Our Co-Pilot, a writer is challenging people to show some enthusiasm for the old form by writing a poem a day. We’ll take the challenge here at Poegles, using the opportunity to write a poegle a day.

How about it, poeglers? Will you take the challenge? Join us!

Gourd link via Poetry Hut

Poetry News, Blue Velvet, Asahi Haiku

admin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:12:17 +0000

Glad to see that Jilly Dibka’s daily poetry news update is back up and running after a month’s absence. The best poetry news site on the web, in our humble opinion.

Two ‘requests for poetry’ (RFP’s) that she points to:

Poems inspired by David Lynch’s Blue Velvet

The Asahi Haikuist Network

We recommend poegles for both.

Palin Poetry

admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:42:12 +0000

Via Poetry Hut: Julian Gough in the UK’s Prospect has given the The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld treatment (set to music here) to some of Sarah Palin’s public statements. He even goes so far as to suggest she should be America’s poet laureate. “Not since Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass has there been such an electrifying debut,” says Gough.

Extra points to any poegler brave enough to deliver a Palin Poegle to us today.

Obama ‘dabbled’ in poetry

admin — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:15:25 +0000

Via Poetry Hut: In this month’s Atlantic we’re treated to musing on the poetry of Abraham Lincoln. The Atlantic links out to a NY Times piece from May 2008 that reprinted two Obama poems that the President-elect published in an Occidental College literary journal in his early adult years, “Pop” and “Undeground”. Incidentally, I like the phrase “musty, wet pelts” in “Underground”.