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OriginalPoetry.com : Reflections January 10, 2010 We're on Facebook! Become a fan of OriginalPoetry.com on Facebook and keep up with all the latest happenings. Follow us on Twitter! Ad Space Available Ad space is now available.  If you would like to advertise on OriginalPoetry.com, please contact papapaczki. Weekly Wisdom Always trust your first instinct. Weekly Challenge Happy New Year!  It's 2011! Write a poem regarding resolutions or visions for the new year. Weekly Poetry Term alliteration The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words: "What would the world be, once bereft/Of wet and wildness?" (Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Inversnaid") Upcoming Events If you know of any upcoming events, please let us know on the Forum or through Feedback. Tuesdays - Puroslam, a poetry slam at On The Half Shelf, San Antonio, TX Tuesdays - Open Mic at Blue Fusion from 6 PM - 9 PM, Springfield, MA Sundays - Cohoyo1's "Candidly Candice" radio show, Blogtalkradio.com Some events courtesy of the Academy of American Poets I am the Champion, my friends... Congratulations to HIP13044b and "You", this week's contest winner! We are compiling 52 winners for volume 3 of the Original Poetry Anthology book.  Make sure you put a good amount of time into crafting your winning poem. For more details on the contest, please read our Poetry Contest FAQs.  School of Poetry Looking to refine your poetry?  Check out the School of Poetry, in the forums.  You'll find people to exchange thoughts with, lessons on poetry, teachers to assist you, and more!  For more information about the classes, please read the School Guide. "Working Toward The Sonnet", a class taught by RHPeat From RHPeat - For any who would like to do the exercises in the class: "Working Toward the Sonnet" with a group of other poets. Please let me know so I can create a start-up date to share critiques and the exchange of class information. As well as adding names to the title page on the class as an easy access to their page sites to read the poems in question for the class.  Two people are interested at this time. John "wordslinger" and "janetgunn".  You can leave me an note on my profile comments or send me an email to the site. Ins and Outs of Poetry Need some help find friends, or getting your poems read?  Check out our new forum: "The Ins and Outs of OP".  This forum is a comprehensive guide and discussion about networking with other poets. Book Releases & Events The "Original Poetry Anthology" book is now available from Amazon.com! "American-Jamaican Anthology of Original Poetry" by WordSlinger and Counsinsoren is now available from Amazon.com. WordSlingers' "Beautifire" is now available from CreateSpace.com! Dahlusion's "In Forbidden Language" is now available from Stillpoint Press and for sale on LuLu.com. "The Poets of Blood", Bleed for a Cause, Volume 1, is now for sale on CreateSpace.com! PeachesHaven's "Voice from the Soul of Trees" is now available and for sale on Amazon.com. Koolmom0's "Emotional Thoughts" is now available from PublishAmerica. ladypoet's "Real Women Get Their Hands Dirty" is now available from PublishAmerica. Hampton, icu2, rsalassi, stryx have released "Three Tenors and One Squawky Contralto" and is now available on Amazon.com. pdxgrrll's "Pushing Boundaries: My Poems of View" is now available from Author House. suziegray's "Tess" is now available from PublishAmerica. skyhorse's "The Cry of Wisdom" is now available from Amazon.com. bforibus's "Verbal Enslavement" is now available from PublishAmerica. inkmaster's "Twilight Moments" is now available from PublishAmerica. justastar2's "Tiny Bones In A Velvet Closet" is now available from Amazon.com and PublishAmerica. sammia's "Fore the Dreams of the World" is now available from PublishAmerica. rachelerika's "The Beat Generation 'Poetry for the soul'" is now available at blurb.com! rachelerika's "Gospel Hippie" is now available at blurb.com. nadroj's "Double Barreled Bible" is now available at billowingwords.com. cliftondurant's "Heavenly Poetry" is now available from PublishAmerica. SusanISmith's new book "Simple Complexities" was released on December 5, 2009. 1dean's book "Collected Chapbooks 1997-2009" was released on December 5, 2009. justastar2's book "Dragena's Fire" was released on November 24, 2009. BrielleC's book "Liquid Reflections" is now available on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. Poetography's book "Cadillac on the Bowery" is on sale at amazon.com. uspslady's book "In The Eye of the Beholder" has been released. SandraRains has a few new titles hitting the shelves in January.  Check out her forum post for details. If you have a book release, signing, or other event, please contact us so we can include it.  Also be sure to post on the Poetry Events & News forum. Community Affairs Notable Discussions There are a few notable discussions going on that seem to have sparked some interest: We've been discussing the history of OriginalPoetry.com.  Please come and post any questions you have about the 2 year history of the web site! angel33614 is looking into starting local groups spread across all the 50 states, and possibly into other countries if there is interest.  We have a brand new section in the forums: School of Poetry - A place to improve your poetry skills. "Interactive Poetry", Poets Of Blood. ~Bleed for a Cause: Donating Poetic Verse Into Interactive Poems "Elements of Poetry", this is a link to an Elements of Poetry site that takes you through all the elements of poetry, and helps you learn and build your skills. "Tips and Tricks for effective writing", a ideas exchange. Become A Fan If you haven't already, become a fan of OriginalPoetry.com on Facebook. Follow this link: BECOME A FAN! Need Help? 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a href='http://www.funnypoets.com'>FunnyPoets.com Your funny poem of the week is: Ringo Blues Copyright; Graham Fredriksen From his book 'Paradise Revisited' He's bought himself a set of drums - Seems that's the latest fad For them with teenage craniums Just to annoy their Dad. So now it's straight into his room When he gets home from school: A raucous thunderous sonic boom - Could make die dead rise from die tomb ...And those alive to fear their doom - A racket dial is cruel; An audio nightmare of gloom As decibels and senses zoom, My ears and I can now assume... That Ringo's on his stool. As drums resound and cymbals crash, The airwaves saturate; Bush poetry's a culture clash - He says I'm out of date. His hair is fifteen shades of blue... He only wears what's cool... He bangs away the evening through... He says I wouldn't have a clue... But oh!! that noise!! I'm tellin' you... When Ringo's on his stool!! With peace and quiet vanished now From in our neighborhood, I get no more milk from the cow, The dog's left home for good, The chooks have all stopped layin' eggs, The goldfish left his pool, The cat has even found his legs, My home-made beer has turned to dregs. Is that a tune ? - the question begs... When Ringo's on his stool. The ducks from on the billabong Have all flown south for Spring; No more we hear the magpie's song - He's lost his urge to sing. T.V.'s a relic of the past - Those drums win every duel; Not even ghetto-blasters blast As loud or even half as fast... While ear-drums flutter at half mast... When Ringo's on his stool. The Flick man has no need to call - Our cockroaches have gone; The termites that live in the wall - They too are moving on. It could well drive a man to drink... But who am I to fool ? I have already crossed that brink - I cannot hear myself to think - And oh...this week, his hair is pink... That's Ringo on his stool. So I thought I would be the bird And grow myself some wings, Until today...! got the word That somehow changes things. The music shop is on the phone: This afternoon it comes - An instrument that's all my own - He need no longer play alone - We'll form a band that's all home-grown I'm flexing up my gums; Though I'm tone-deaf as any stone, I'll join the raucous monotone - Me playing my new saxophone... While Ringo...plays his drums. Copyright; Graham Fredriksen View more funny poems at FunnyPoets.com-1 unsubscribe FunnyPoets.com 5646 Fairway Road Fairway, Kansas 66205

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From Our New Home

	January 10, 2011		Dear Friend, The staff here at the Academy of American Poets is delighted to wish you a happy new year from our happy new home on Maiden Lane in Lower Manhattan. As an organization devoted to poetry and now located on a street whose name conjures the maidens and lanes of classic poetry, our staff was compelled to take a brief respite from unpacking boxes to assemble a selection of poems that reference maidens or lanes. In addition to poems of yore — by Wordsworth, Longfellow, and Poe — we found a number of contemporary poems, including "Siren" by Louise Glück, which ends: I used to tell you my dreams. Last night I saw a woman sitting in a dark bus— In the dream, she's weeping, the bus she's on Is moving away. With one hand She's waving; the other strokes An egg carton full of babies. The dream doesn't rescue the maiden. The selections have a geographic reach that reflects the range of our audience, from these lines about T. S. Eliot's ancestral English home in the second stanza of "East Coker," In my beginning is my end. Now the light falls Across the open field, leaving the deep lane Shuttered with branches, dark in the afternoon, Where you lean against a bank while a van passes, And the deep lane insists on the direction Into the village, in the electric heat Hypnotised. through poems about our actual street here in New York, to Lorna Dee Cervantes's rendering of "the fake windsounds of the open lanes" of a California freeway. We look forward to serving you and the Poets.org community throughout 2011 by delivering the world of poetry to your inbox, desktop, and doorstep. Please note our new mailing address below. Yours, Tree Swenson Executive Director Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901 New York, NY 10038 Poems about Maidens The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe War Is Kind [excerpt] by Stephen Crane Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas The Métier of Blossoming by Denise Levertov The Aeneid, Book I, [A grove stood in the city] by Virgil translated by Edward Fairfax Taylor Meaningful Love by John Ashbery The Passing of the Year by Robert W. Service Poems about Lanes As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden Freeway 280 by Lorna Dee Cervantes The Lane by Edward Thomas A lane of Yellow led the eye (1650) by Emily Dickinson Carentan O Carentan by Louis Simpson California Plush by Frank Bidart The Harvest Moon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow LXI by César Vallejo translated by Clayton Eshleman Thanks for being a part of the Poets.org community. Please sign in to subscribe to other Poets.org newsletters, change your email address or unsubscribe from this list at any time.