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Commercial Poetry: VidSlams and VidMics
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A place for the discussion of poetry intended for an audience beyond poets. You can argue with me but, in the end, you'll have to face that fact that you're arguing with a squirrel." - Earl Gray. Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Earl the Squirrel's Rule #113. 8220;A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”. 8211; Orson Welles. Let's face it. Previous joint ventures involving verses and video have been almost exclusively disastrous. With few exceptions. Or as a voiceover. Obvio...
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Commercial Poetry: January 2015
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A place for the discussion of poetry intended for an audience beyond poets. You can argue with me but, in the end, you'll have to face that fact that you're arguing with a squirrel." - Earl Gray. Monday, January 26, 2015. The Good, The Bad and the Indifferent. In " Music to a Poet's Ear. Billy Collins ("BC") is quoted as saying: "Lyrics just don't hold up without the music.". Jim Morrison, 1943-1971. And Billy Collins is? Is free verse or metrical. Not one will get it right. The problem is that ConPoets.
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Commercial Poetry: R-E-S-P-E-C-T
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A place for the discussion of poetry intended for an audience beyond poets. You can argue with me but, in the end, you'll have to face that fact that you're arguing with a squirrel." - Earl Gray. Monday, April 27, 2015. Earl the Squirrel's Rule #64. If poetry came back to life today it would find itself declared "missing and presumed dead" in 1973. Its spouse long remarried, its possessions gone, its photo gathering dust in the attic, and its children contemplating retirement. Not just contemporary poetry.
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Commercial Poetry: November 2014
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A place for the discussion of poetry intended for an audience beyond poets. You can argue with me but, in the end, you'll have to face that fact that you're arguing with a squirrel." - Earl Gray. Saturday, November 29, 2014. In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake." See also: "The politics of the university are so intense because the stakes are so low." See also Hutchin's Law. Which -ism is operating there? Arguably the most insidious and viru...
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Commercial Poetry: October 2014
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A place for the discussion of poetry intended for an audience beyond poets. You can argue with me but, in the end, you'll have to face that fact that you're arguing with a squirrel." - Earl Gray. Friday, October 31, 2014. Like pollen, poetry cannot be stolen because it is designed to be taken. Flowers provide sweetness to encourage this "theft", along with a compact size to facilitate carriage, whole and intact. No pollinization. No flowers. One of my favorite. Earl the Squirrel's Rule #16. The love poem...
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Commercial Poetry: Has Social Media Been Good For Poetry?
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A place for the discussion of poetry intended for an audience beyond poets. You can argue with me but, in the end, you'll have to face that fact that you're arguing with a squirrel." - Earl Gray. Saturday, April 25, 2015. Has Social Media Been Good For Poetry? Most 'poets' are stupid and lazy. Not only do they take shortcuts, but they get lost doing it.". Zachariah Wells on the Vox Populism. Earl the Squirrel's Rule #7. Blogger Carmine Starnino¹ asks " Has Social Media Been Good For Poetry? The simple an...
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About | Melissa Balmain
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Walking in on People. Melissa Balmain is a humorist, journalist, and teacher. She's Editor of. The country's oldest journal of light verse, which she helped revive and bring online after 20 years in print. Balmain's poems have been published in such anthologies as. The Iron Book of New Humorous Verse. Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry,. Lighten Up Online, Measure. Mezzo Cammin, Poetry Daily, The Spectator (UK), The Washington Post. And elsewhere. Her prose has appeared in. Walking in on People,.
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