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Whether you read your poetry from leather bound books or you find it on your hughesnet we’ve got an alternative you should consider. Poetry magazines have come a long wayhere are a few of our favorites:

Modern Haiku: This publication is only semi-annual but it’s all about the ancient Japanese art of Haiku. It may seem one dimensional but by the last page you’ll have newfound respect for a limitation of words.

4AM Poetry Review: This one’s only once annual (August) but it’s got works from some of the preeminent thinkers of the modern age and all kinds of contributions from industry headers.

Avocet: This one’s got a unique slant but we think the magazine’s love for “natural” poems with vivid imagery really makes it something special. They specialize in publishing already-published works but it makes for a nice collection piece.

Cider Press Review: Accepts new submissions all year round and it’s done in Pennsylvania so its works are often farm-focused. It’s had some of the best names in the genre published so you can count on quality content.

Poets have been around for thousands of years, spinning great torrents of emotion into a form of storytelling which stimulates all of the senses in a sort of ‘literary synesthesia.’ Great poets from Homer to Sylvia Plath, Robert Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and even Langston Hughes have been pouring their hearts out onto paper for the enjoyment of readers for many generations. Now, there is a new stock of future poets emerging to take the Read the rest of this entry »

Poetry And Your Child – How Early Is Too Early?
The love of truly great poetry for children should begin as early as infancy. The soothing sound of poetic verse is to a fretful infant as an icy mountain stream is to a thirsty deer. Children are born with natural rhythm. If this is developed early with regular readings of poetry, it extends into other areas of a child’s life: music, dance, mathematics and science.

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It’s a great feeling when a piece that you’ve worked, struggled, fought, cried and smiled over wins an award or becomes published. That ever elusive feeling of true accomplishment swells inside of you and you feel that you’ve finally found the road of accomplishment that you’ve been searching for.

So what happens after?

While that sense of accomplishment and success won’t ever really go away, it will fade. It’s up to you to note your success and keep moving forward, keep striding on toward Read the rest of this entry »

Digital poetry, a new genre or type of poetry, is actually not new. It has been in the making since the late fifties when computer geeks then would play with textual form, on the computer, to generate a composite of electronic text, image, and sound delivered as a combined kind of performance art (think Jean Francois Detaille and his “Kick the Bucket” piece) and visual, or concrete, poem (think ee cummings and “In-Just”).

Today, six decades in, we can do what the first digital poets did and the poets and performance Read the rest of this entry »