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• Line in Time: Word for Word

  This week starts Tuesday evening with the Word-4-Word Poets at Aromas Coffeehouse in Newpoet News. Then Thursday evening the Kinship of Authors features Dr Natalia Roberston speaking about her book The Slave Ship Clotilda at the Hampton Library. [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:33am EST
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• Billy Boom Train – Wins the Gold

  Chesapeake resident Brian Batts has won a gold Parents Choice Award for the Fall of 2009. Brian's illustrated children's book with audio also has been highly praised by readers on Amazon.com. He wrote the story and composed the music for the book. Charles Long of Norfolk illustrated the book. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:50pm EST
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• Fence Things Going On

  Fence is not locally based, but I think it’s a good literary review for new poets to check out. I like its contemporary flare and occasional edge. Plus, how can I not tell you about a the issue with Rainer Maria Rilke in it? From Fence Books: Pretty soon a [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:13am EST
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• This American Life challenge

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  If you don’t listen to This American Life on 89.5, you should. And, beyond its great storytelling, I’ll give you another reason to listen: A writing challenge. The Challenge: Listen to this week’s This America Life and then write a poem, flash fiction story (less than 500 words) or piece of 2D [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:13am EST
  by Deb Markham

• TReehouse: You are what you eat

  From Tom Robotham of TReehouse magazine, which is a locally-based online publication…. Please take a look at Angela Blue’s new piece on TReehouse–You Are What You Eat. I still eat meat of all kinds, but often feel like a hypocrite because I don’t know whether I could kill a mammal [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:12am EST
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• ALP: Like Coins, November

  BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 I love poems in which the central metaphors are fresh and original, and here’s a marvelous, coiny description of autumn by Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck, who lives in Illinois. Like Coins, November We drove past late fall fields as flat and cold as sheets of tin and, [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 11:38am EST
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• Poetry: 2 June

  W. W. Yoder, III of Chesapeake VA shares the experience of a June day turn night after hours stuck inside during choir practice. Although the author doubts the sense of practicing indoors, he finds solace in the evening. [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:54am EST
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• We have a new submissions process!

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  You now can easily submit your work to us by sending an email via Posterous.com. Here are the steps: 1. Open up a new email. 2. Create at title and compose the body just as you would like to see it published on our site. Please include your name and city of residence [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:11am EST
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• Muse News: Comic Book Writing

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  Comic Book Writing Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m., a 6 week session beginning November 18 Only 5 seats remain. Visit www.the-muse.org/workshops.html or call 818-9880 to register. Graphic novels, manga and comic books have become a major sector in the field of literature and a principal source of inspiration for other media. T Campbell presents a set [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:05am EST
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• Line in Time: Local poetry this week

  Greetings Y’all Poets, Bards n Troubadours.Saturday Jack Callan had a triumphal overtime reading from his new book “Knucklehead Poems” at Iris Art Studio in Poquoson. If you weren’t there, you MISSED it BIG TIME. This weekend 5 of us from PSV were privileged to hob-knob with countless English and Language Arts [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 11:53pm EST
  by Pete Freas

• Video: 13 Seconds in Ghent

  Oct. 17, 2009, Stockley Garden Fall Arts Festival: I promised I would visit Hollywood in her booth. I did. I also took photos of a few of the locals wandering nearby her tent. Vinny Peculiar hit the stage, and I took a few shots of him too. Later I wandered to Cogan’s with Lea Anne Douglas, where [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 11:06pm EST
  by Deb Markham