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Jazz Poetry for Hire on the Streets of New Orleans

A couple of nights every week, Eric Carter sits at the top of New Orleans' Frenchman Street with a typewriter. The legendary music street is famous for jazz, but he's practicing another kind of improvisational expression. "Poetry," his sign reads. "Your topic, your price." Give Carter a word, and he'll tap out a poem for...

NH University Acquires Robert Frost's Letters to Pal

CONCORD, N.H. -- Writing from England as World War I got under way, Robert Frost was more worried about his personal finances than the threat of war. Plymouth State University / AP This letter from the archives of Plymouth State University is one of several written by Robert Frost. The university, where he once...

Writers Air Poetic Laundry at Laundromat

Alone in the basement,/I take off my pajama bottoms/and slide warm denim/(CLINK CLINK CLINK)/from the dryer over my thighs. As poet January O'Neil reads, 50 listeners listen and one laundress launders. O'Neil muses on life at 42 while the woman standing behind her slides quarters into the coin slot of a big silver dryer....

Old-School Text Messages Arrive @ the British Library

(Aug. 23) -- Before there were text messages -- or rather, "b4 txts" (B.T.?) -- there was emblematic poetry. Fashionable during the Victorian era, emblematic verse played games with form and typography. A poem about flight and divinity, for example, might have its stanzas arranged in the shape of an angel's wings. And a...

Tattooed, Pain-Proof Man Looks to Publish Poems, Journals

Photo by Autumn Luciano, AutumnLuciano.com

(June 24) -- The tattoos decorating his face and his fondness for a bed of nails might lead you to certain opinions about Eduardo Arrocha. "Prolific poet" is probably not one of them. Yet, in between 15 years worth of performances and odd jobs at Coney Island's Sideshows by the Seashore, Arrocha, known as Eak the Geek,...

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John Cooper Clarke Performs 'Hire Car' (VIDEO)

After a fantastic interview with the Guardian , the punk poet from Salford starred in BBC Four documentary Evidently...

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Spoken Word Poet James Bunting Performs 'Conkers'

James Bunting co-runs the Bristol faction of Hammer & Tongue.

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MacGregor Thomson: Commenter Sings About Obama (VIDEO)

Last week HuffPost user VotingThisTime shared his original song showing support for President Obama.

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WATCH: Slam Poet National Champion Adam Kammerling

Adam Kammerling is the 2012 Hammer and Tongue National Slam Poet Championship.

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Michele Velazquez: 15 Great Date Night Ideas For Married Couples

As a romantic date planner , I get hired a lot by husbands and wives to come up with creative date ideas for each other.

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06/01/12 Get Thrilled by Christian Poetry on Your e-reader,... Source: PRWeb (PRWEB) June 01, 2012 The Christian Bible Poetry Website has just launched a new ebook store on Facebook.
06/01/12 Best Bets | Tales of wonder Source: The Courier-Journal - Louisville KY Voces Novae, the semi-professional choral ensemble, finishes its season with a concert of songs devoted to the telling of tall tales, fairy tales, nursery rhymes and stories about gypsies at 3 p.m.
06/01/12 Love poem captures hope for life but remains confirm... Source: ABC - KATU 2 - Portland OR After wondering for decades whether he was alive or dead, the family of a man shot down over Vietnam in 1965 has received confirmation that he perished in the war.
05/31/12 Getting your 'rick rolling: What we're looking for in... Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC â The rhyme scheme is AABBA â that means Lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme with one another, and Lines 3 and 4 rhyme with each other.
05/31/12 Saginaw poetry team raises funds for Charlotte... Source: The Saginaw News - Saginaw MI A group assembling the Saginaw Poetry Slam Team for a national competition in North Carolina is closing in on a fundraising goal for the cross-country trek.

Background on poetry

Poetry (from the Greek poiesis — ' — with a broad meaning of a "making", seen also in such terms as "hemopoiesis"; more narrowly, the making of poetry) is a form of literary art which uses the aesthetic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

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