Have young kids? Well then you might want to read Home Appreciation by Susan Thomsen. The article, posted at the Poetry Foundation, talks about spreading the joy of poetry to children, specifically those that are home schooled.

Click here to read the article.

Ever been to Litstation? Its an " online radio station dedicated to streaming the best radio and archival work done in the literary arts" founded by Jim Finnegan. Finnegan is the founder of Brick Walk Poets.

Click here to check out LitStation's schedule.

Say hello to the newest poet to join PWB by stopping by The Storialist.

Make this poet feel welcome among the ranks of PWB members. This site works when poets like you make it work.

Thanks!

Sara

Lend a Line Poem Two

This poem uses Raven's line, just like the last one did, as the first line in a new poem.

Rising ...


Trailing her midnight cloak behind

an ache for flight she spirals rage,

flays time with scorn though it's blind

trailing her, midnight cloak behind



her now. Caught in the wires, unkind

visions and a drowning madman age

trailing, her midnight cloak – behind

an ache for flight. She spirals. Rage.




By Shell from Forget Me Now

Thank you to our Poetry Prompt Friends

Well I just found out that facebook had a National Poetry Prompt Appreciation Day
on August 8th. Though PWB is one month late in recognizing it, I would like to take a moment to think all the sites that put prompts out. Those sites work tirelessly to bring the poetry blogosphere together. Your work is appreciated by myself and many more.

Thank you!

First Lend a Line Poem

Hello poets. Recently we started a project where you can lend a line from one of your poems to be the first line used in a new poem. Punatik from Fragments of Reality used
Raven's line to write the following poem:


Moonlight by Emilio

Trailing her midnight cloak behind
She move within the circle
Passing by the sigils
She speaks words
Of a tongue
Long thought lost

The light of the moon
Casts a glow
On censer, book, and sword
She performs the
Ancient ritual
No one is ever told

Of questions asked
Or answers given
They are for her alone
She is the triple Goddess
Maiden, Mother, Crone

OPEN ISSUE for Writers over 50
Submit work: June 1 - September 15 (postmarked date)

Results announced (projected date): November, 2008

No reading fee for Open Issue submissions; 3-5 poems, 50 lines max. per poem; or, Short fiction, all stories totaling no more than 4,000 words; or, one Memoir, or a series, 4,000 words max. in total.

Include cover letter and brief bio. Include name and address on all pages. All work must be accompanied by a Self-Addressed, Stamped Envelope (SASE) with sufficient postage for reply/work return.

No previously published work. Simultaneous submissions to other journals are okay, but please notify if the work is accepted elsewhere.

No email submissions, inquiries only.

If you need more information, send an email: (replace (at) with @), or call: 410.837.6047. Send all submissions to: Passager; 1420 N. Charles Street; Baltimore, MD 21201-5779

Click here to read "The Professionalization of Poetry" by David Alpaugh, an article that orginally appeared in Poets and Writers Magazine.

Lend a line poem

I orginally read about this concept at Read. Write. Poem.

What you do is find a line from one of your poems and donate it to other poets to use by leaving it in the comments section. All other poets are allowed to take that line and use it as the first one in their own poem.

Send your completed new poem to poetswhoblog at yahoo. com to be posted on this site, along with your screen name and the link to your poetry blog.

Cruise on by Embargopoets to read the English translations of poems written by poets in countries that have embargoes with the United States.Click here to visit them.

A great way to spread the word about PWB is when you visit a site you heard about here make sure you leave the comment:

Poets Who Blog sent me.

Thanks!

Good news, PWB members, after a haitus from blogging, KM Ryan will soon start updating again. Click here to visit Mind on Display.

Barrelhouse, a literary magazine with a pop-culture twist, seeks unpublished poetry, fiction and essays on the theme of "The Future". Editors say: "Barrelhouse, like any writer with a hint of an alcohol problem, both loves and dreads the future. But who cares what we think? What are your thoughts on the topic? Got a great story about what the world will be like in 2327? Got a super essay delineating why the hover board is not yet flying off the shelves of your local Toys R’ Us? Got an amazing poem about what type of programming will dominate network television schedules in the next millennium? When it comes to writing about the future, the possibilities are virtually limitless....

A quick note: Please keep in mind this is not exactly a sci-fi writing contest. That isn’t to say we won’t publish an awesome future-oriented sci-fi story if you’ve got one, but keep in mind Barrelhouse is a little more interested in people than in plot, in personal connections with ideas than in personal connections with crazy aliens who have three penises (though if you could effectively work that into an essay or story we’d love to read it).The future is about lots of things, including what might happen next week, with you and that bike messenger with the tattoo of Gary Coleman on his calf, or when your kids go to college, or when Ryan Seacrest is finally crowned King of America."

Deadline - Must be recieved by September 12th

Poetry Contest

Poets for Human Rights has announced to annual contests- Anita McAndrews Award Poetry Contest and the Alexander Popoff Youth Award Poetry Contest.
Click here for details.

Bogie's Delicatessen, in Memphis, Tennessee, has papered its walls with poems written by children. To read an article about this called Focus: Poetry- Eating Their Words click here.

A sad announcement, PWB sister site Writers Who Blog is closing today. The site never took off and after much deliberation I just don't have the enegry to make it grow the way I should if it is to be a success. I still love the idea of it but it takes more tender loving care than I have to give. I'm still dedicated to PWB though and after a very rough summer of not being able to give this site the attention it deserves I hope to get back to taking care of it ( and responding to emails) in a much more reliable manner.


Thank you to anyone who ever stopped by Writers Who Blog. Maybe it will be resurrected one day when I am able to really give it the gas that it would need to become the site I envisioned.

Sara