A Review of A White Girl Lynching from 2009. What Took Me This Long to Link It? I Have No Clue.

Here is a review at Full of Crow from 2009.  I did not post. Full of Crow features poetry, fiction, art, interviews, audio, ebooks, reviews, and more.

http://www.fullofcrow.com/crowreviews/2009/06/a-white-girl-lynching/

Celebrate! April is National Poetry Month -Write a Poem- Poetry Prompt in This Post, Buy a Book, Watch Poets on You Tube, Go to a Reading.

 The History of National Poetry Month

"Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April, when publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets around the country band together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture. Thousands of businesses and non-profit organizations participate through readings, festivals, book displays, workshops, and other events."

 Read the rest

http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41

 Write a Poem

 Poetry Prompt


Write a poem about what a poem is to you
and or second prompt- write about nuclear energy,
its power, its uses, our responsibilities so that it does not
go Kaboom! A third prompt- Write about an April Fool.

Here is my poem (first draft).

Forks are

One-dimensional pieces of metal

Spoons are

flat.... although

curved in functional places.

Spoons have..... tiny muscles

that ripple in milk,

in particular Wheaties.
They are powerless

Hear their cries as they hit
The bowl

Plate
Cup.

Personification poems about utensils

are not  in now (What is? I have no idea)

Who cares? I do.

Every large, small, medium sized metal object
was created by a man's brain waves

I have empathy for the utilitarian

Like nuclear power plants

That depend on human intelligence

(It is all about us. Always. We create.)

To help them help people

Take a fork 

It was made to keep hands clean and

Not spill hot dogs or textured soybeans
On the floor next to the table
Take a nuclear power plant
It was made to not spill
Radioactive waste in the ground

Or water.

The metal things are powerless
They are our Frankenstein
Al or Shelley for good or evil
For better or worse
In sickness or in health
We are wedded to them
With no life asssurance policy


You Tube- Poet Videos

Billy Collins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xovLpim_1s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrEPJh14mcU

Stanley Kunitz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nihqt3Ct2KU

Gregory Corso

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGPDZD7AK5o

Women's Poetry Slam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jc6wB8gTRc

Emily Dickinson - I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL08bcQU214

Buy a Book - My Chapbooks  (A little self promotion)

http://elizabeth-inthemoment.blogspot.com/2010/11/cowboy-writes-letter-other-love-poems.html

http://elizabeth-inthemoment.blogspot.com/2008/03/white-girl-lynching-pudding-house-press.htm


Poetry Readings April 2011- Events Calendar


http://www.poets.org/calendar.php/varClear/1

 You can google to find more events in your area.