Bob & Margery's Poetry Blog August 2006 Archive

Dante’s Divine Comedy was the first & remains the best-known example of terza rima, a poetic form marked by intertwining, “chained” rhymes linking through three-line stanzas, so that the poem ... Read More

More kudos & congratulations are due to Forum poet Guy Kettelhack (GuyBlakeKett), whose poem “Voices” was selected among the honorable mentions in this month’s InterBoard Poetry Competition by the current ... Read More

In his 1876 poem “The Woodlark,” Gerard Manley Hopkins captured the song of that elusive little British bird: “Teevo cheevo cheevio chee: O where, what can that be? Weedio-weedio: there again! So tiny a ... Read More

An on-scene report from the 20th Anniversary Java City Poetry Marathon by Mike Gullickson Street closings for a Poetry Marathon? Who ever heard of such a thing!!? When we got hold of ... Read More

Are you a slam poet, accustomed to the 3-minute limit in that genre? Got a video camera, or a cell phone or digital camera that does short movies? Want to ... Read More

Poets inspire other poets, poems spawn other poems, & poetry is a form of energy that propagates itself across a network of words. For a long time, the poets in ... Read More

Ten or fifteen years ago, San Francisco was the site of one of the first gatherings of video & film poetry, the Cin(E)Poetry Festival produced by Herman Berlandt & later ... Read More

Last year we saw Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Pablo Neruda captured on film, a forthcoming documentary on Charles Olson & his connection to Gloucester, Massachusetts, & a new film tracing the ... Read More

There are so many poets, one can never know them all. Although she was a San Francisco poet like me, I never heard of Linda Dyer until after she died ... Read More

Anton Hecht of Great Britain has made an interesting short film of Kevin Kadwallender’s “Falling Down” (“Everything is falling down... and we are growing up in Darlington”) and posted it ... Read More

Congratulations to Forum poets J.S. Lange (Runatyr) & Julie Mazza (TornScorpio)! Runatyr’s poem “Moratorium” was selected as second place winner in last month’s competition by new IBPC judge Tree Riesener, ... Read More

Once again we’ve selected the work of three poets who have served before as our envoys to this month’s InterBoard Poetry Competition: Sam Packard (Ilalex)’s untitled winner of the Forum’s most ... Read More

Snow*Vigate (pronounced to rhyme with “navigate”) is a brand-new online journal (Issue #1 went live in spring 2006) that publishes poetry, flash fiction and drama, non-fiction, short essays on critical ... Read More