Looking to have your poetry critiqued? Then check out Every Poets site's Poetry Free For All by clicking here.

This week Books Blog focused its attention on poet Andrew Marvell naming his To Coy a Mistress their poem of the week.

To read thier post click here.

The Twelve Days of Poetry

I'm not sure how many of our readers were around last year and remember our Twelve Days of Poetry. If you don't then use the search feature on this site to see what I am referring to or you can always visit

Anyway, its about that time of year to set up The Twelve Days of Poetry 2008, our second annual event.

To take part send a holiday or winter themed poem to poetswhoblog at yahoo dot com. Make sure you put PWB Twelve Days in the subject line.

Then I will feature a poem a day. If we have more than twelve poets who decide to take part I will feature more than one poem a day.

Make sure you tell me your screen name, or whatever name you want mentioned in the post, and give me a link to your poetry blog.

Please stop in during December to read our twelve days of christmas poems and please comment. Its up to you in order to make this year just as successful as last year.

Your Blog Manager,
Sara

The Library of Congress has a website with a section specifically for Presidential poetry.

To check it out click here.

The fantastic writer behind the comic Will Write For Chocolate has started selling a line of greeting cards. So if you need some cards for the holidays, think about supporting this talented writer.

You can find the cards at Snarkface.com

Click here if you would like to visit a forum that is holding what they title their First Annual Festival of Women's Poetry.

From our friends at Poetry Dances:



We bring news of the November poetry contest being held on WritingRoom.com- winners of which will be featured in the WR Winners Forum on Poetrydances.com. Along with other great prizes - such as publication and cash! All participants will receive a certificate of achievement. If you would like to find out more please click here.

Welcome, Jason!

There is a new blog on our list. It showcases the work of Jason Keath. Stop on into Argonaut and welcome him to PWB.

Nicole Nicholson Poet of the Week at PSH

Big congrats to PWB's very own Nicole Nicholson who is one of the Poets of the Week at Poetry Super Highway. Way to go, Nicole!

Click here to find out how you too could be considered for the Poets of the Week honor at PSH, and click here to read Nicole's biography and a poem by here titled Revolutionary.

Send in your poetry news

Our friends at Read Write Poem would love for you to send in your poetry news. Email it them at news (at) readwritepoem (dot) org. (Please include “news” in the subject line, thank you very much.)

Click here to visit Read Write Poem

The latest press release from our friends at poetrydances.com:

Poetrydances.com Welcomes Six New Favorite Writers in October, Whilst Extending Its Reach Following a Significant New Arrangement with Poetry Website WritingRoom.com

Six new favorite writers were created in October on Poetrydances.com, in a month which saw an important new arrangement with WritingRoom.com, a leading poetry website, come into effect.


Busan, South Korea, November 05, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Month after month, new writers and new poems are discovered by Poetrydances.com during its visits to other poetry sites, and blogs across the Internet. Poems are also often submitted to the Site directly. A proportion of the writers behind these poems are listed as Favorite Writers on the Site.

The six Favorite Writers created in October along with their poems and sites on which they are hosted are as follows:

Jenniffer Jude Slachtovsky with ‘Unzipped’ [on Poetrydances.com]

Joseph J. Breunig 3rd. with ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ [on Poetrydances.com]

Beatrice Van De Vis with - ‘Haiku LIX’ [on owlnight.com]
[discovered through poetswhoblog.blogspot.com]

- also ‘Diva’ [on Poetrydances.com]

- and ‘Tanka XIV’ [on owlnight.com]

Rachel Clark with ‘Unleashed’ [on Don’t take my wings- blog]

Nicholas Sheehan with ‘Found’ [on poetry.com]

John L. Snook, Jr. with ‘Pleasure’s Face’ [on Poetrydances.com]

Also, in a new and significant advance, poetry site WritingRoom.com has agreed to incorporate a ‘read request’ link back to Poetrydances.com, alongside all poems written and hosted on its website. These links offer to all writers of poetry on WritingRoom.com, an easier method of submitting their poems to Poetrydances.com for review and possible selection.

In recent comments about this new arrangement, Anthony French, the creator of Poetrydances.com explained:

“We are very pleased to be working so closely with WritingRoom.com- we see the Site as one of the most vibrant, friendly and accessible out there. Additionally, the standard of poems reaching us from the Site is highly impressive. This may be in part down to the broad array of ‘expert’ guidance made available to its members. In offering this guidance to help writers develop and improve their craft across so many areas, WritingRoom.com has presented itself as a truly excellent partner. We are confident that the read requests coming in from WritingRoom.com will steadily grow with time; bringing increased exposure for its writers along with the two sites themselves. We look forward to working more closely with other sites able to offer such a great platform to their members. ”

Lindsay Preston, creator and CEO of WritingRoom.com also recently voiced thoughts on the relationship between her site and Poetrydances.com:

“WritingRoom is thrilled to have established such a strong reliance with another website so dedicated to helping writers succeed. PoetryDances is a top-notch site and a must-visit for all poets. We are honored to have PoetryDances scouring WritingRoom for poets to add to their site and we are more than pleased to have a "PoetryDances Read Request" button on WritingRoom to help encourage and support writers and their dreams. We look forward to a productive future encouraging and supporting writers with PoetryDances.com.”

Poetry as mentioned can also be submitted directly to Poetrydances.com along with links to great poems found by users themselves. Additionally, the Site accepts general read requests, which allow its staff to visit and read the work of specific writers on various poetry sites or blogs across the Internet.

Poetrydances.com is free to use subject to the site’s disclaimer and terms of use.



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WritingRoom.com.

Writing Room.com is for everyone because everyone has a story to tell; a letter to write; a school paper to finish or simply the need to communicate. Everyone has sat agonizingly in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen and the words won’t come. WritingRoom is here for you.

WritingRoom understands the struggles and demands involved with writing; the blank page, the writers block and the stakes involved with wrestling through the creative process. We are a community where writers can work, independently or with others, communicate, stumble, get encouragement and meet people with similar interests.

WritingRoom can help publishers find the next New York Times bestseller or producers find the next Academy Award winning screenplay. We are here to help students achieve that desperately needed A on their next paper and the business person write the perfect letter. As a niche social network, designed for writers, students, readers and anyone who has ever had to or wanted to put pen to paper, WritingRoom.com is everything writing.

Did you get a chance to check out The Poetry Foundation's october podacast?

Click hereto listen to the English translation of Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño's poetry.

Are you a poet who lives in South Africa? If so think about submitting your work to Scavenger.

Remember, all other poets, if you stop by a blog after hearing about it on PWB tell them that Poets Who Blog sent you.

Last month writers in Great Britian used the power of their pen to protest a proposed anti-terrorism law. Forty-two writers banded together to lend their words to a collection posted online one day before the parliment voted on the law.

To read more about this click here.

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