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Back in 2005, we used the prompt " Being in the Moment " with a model poem by Jane Hirshfield. It received 9 interesting comments....

 We used John Updike's poetry collection   Midpoint this month for our call for submissions for our next issue. The title poem is Updik...

This past week, I was thinking about midpoints because July 1 was the midpoint of this year . That thought sent me to my bookshelf for a cop...

"People who believe in absurdities will eventually commit atrocities." May 16, 1717 was the day that the French playwright and poe...

April 10 was  Poem in Your Pocket  Day  for  this year, but any day can be a poem in your pocket day. How about June 10? The idea for the da...