So, I’ve been nominated for/awarded the Versatile Blogger Award by author S. Zainab Williams! Thanks dude! The rules are that I have to say seven things about myself and then nominate 15 other blogs that I like/respect. My seven things: 1. Unless a writer has an extremely compelling plot, attention to word choice and sentence [...]

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Make Love, then War : Linh Dinh : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation.

Warsan Shire is phenomenal. Click on the video to see the words to the poem. Buy her spoken word album. Thanks to Melissa for this one.

A really gorgeous poem: QUIET MINDS: DAY 21: Jerusalem.

I think this is really useful: How to Read a Poem- Poets.org – Poetry, Poems, Bios & More.

Another useful link. How do you determine stress and unstressed syllables in a poem? via Iambic Pentameter – how to tell the difference between stressed and unstressed? – Yahoo! Answers.

Ultimately, I stopped blogging Because Facebook was safer from the prying eyes of physicists academics who thought racism was a matter of discourse who thought I did not have the right to need things that were not physics to be complete But now that world has been invaded too. There is nowhere left to retreat [...]

I quit writing, thinking I had nothing to say or couldn’t say it anymore. I didn’t want to do the hard work of saying things that are hard to say and cannot be said linearly. But Adrienne Rich is dead. And that means I must keep writing. Because she did. Because she was right to [...]

Poetry is about a lot of things and meant to do many things. Most of the time powerful poetry evokes incredible images, whether they are emotional, physical or spiritual. But it is also built on something. Blocks. Words. Letters. Rhythms. Sounds. Those pieces come together to roll off your tongue. In honor of the rather [...]