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LAST CHANCE - Write Prize entry extended 24 hours by popular request ...

Posted 02-16-2011 at 12:00 PM by Alex Pepple
-- Last Chance -- Write Prize contest (poetry & fiction) extended for 24 hours by popular request (end of day today!) -- Enter now or that's it!


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The Deadlines & Other Important Reminders

Posted 01-15-2011 at 11:02 PM by Alex Pepple

OK, at least, they should be important ... OK, maybe important to me and quite a few others ...
  • ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE (Poetry & Fiction) - $500 prize each & publication
    Judges: Rachel Hadas - poetry; Alan Cheuse - fiction
    Deadline: February 15, 2011
  • ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD (Poetry) - $1000 prize, plus book publication
    Judge: Andrew Hudgins
    Deadline: March 31, 2011
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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Posted 12-22-2010 at 09:56 AM by Steve Bucknell
I pick up Edna at Rare and Racy: Wine From These Grapes. Hamish Hamilton. 90 Great Russell Street, London.1934 5s.net. Very plain jacket, but with soft rich pages beautifully cut and printed. Eight pounds! I hurry her home. She gives me this poem for my book of the winter:




How Naked, How Without a Wall



How naked, how without a wall
Against the wind and the sharp sleet,
He fares at night, that fares at all
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Anon.

Posted 12-21-2010 at 03:40 PM by Steve Bucknell
In honour of the winter solstice and the lunar eclipse, (unseen but very strange pink/red hues in the dawn sky) this thirteenth century poem from the anthology Medieval English Lyrics edited by R.T.Davies Faber and Faber.1963.
The prose version is my own guesswork.


The Man in the Moon


Mon in the mone stond and strit;
On his bot-forke his burthen he bereth.
It is muche wonder that he na down slit—
For doute leste he falle...
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Stevie Smith

Posted 12-20-2010 at 03:58 PM by Steve Bucknell
Updated 01-29-2011 at 02:48 PM by Steve Bucknell
I like this early poem by Stevie Smith, a typical mixture of melancholy and cheesy oddity, difficult to paraphrase or interpret. Her poetry and novels have moved in and out of fashion since their first publication. Her poetry remains delightfully sui generis.



Night-Time In The Cemetery



The funeral paths are hung with snow
About the graves the mourners go
To think of those who lie below.
The churchyard pales are black against...
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