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December 1, 2009

Amy Kohut and Jeffrey Spahr-Summers are featured and interviewed in Linchpin.
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November 22, 2009

Volume 6, Issue 13 of Poetry Victims is now online (featuring visual art by Cesar Ivan and poetry by Belinda Subraman).


Make It New Media


Blue Rooms, Black Holes, White Lights
by Belinda Subraman (Unlikely Books 2009)
ISBN 10: 0-9822934-0-2
ISBN 13: 978-0-9822934-0-9

Publisher's Introduction

Given the spiritual content of this book, it is perhaps appropriate that I first met Belinda Subraman not because of a shared interest in poetry, but because she was a Coordinator for the El Paso County Green...
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November 15, 2009

you were engaging
you held us all some
kind of mojo
blossomed
flowed like a river
glowing with confidence
a ripple here
laughter there
you smiled en worde
and delighted en masse
be proud of this
that it is
that you do this
so very well
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November 10, 2009

for real i dont know who said this
joseph campbell perhaps
kilgore trout prob
ably not but oh
doesnt it sound just like something
someone would say
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November 9, 2009

Tonight the place to be is Laughing Goat (17th and Pearl in Boulder, Colorado) at 8:00PM.

A Night of Pretty Regular Insanity

Where the featured guests are Emily Owens (author of After All We Only Ever Listened to The Refrigerator Hum [Baobob Tree Press:]), Jonathan Montgomery (author of Taxis and Shit [Monkey Puzzle Press:]) and Allison Langley.

I  have both of these books (read them more than once [one more than the other:]) but never-the-less I enjoyed them tremendously.

Special appearances by...
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November 8, 2009

applying my mind to wisdom madness and folly
there is nothing new to be gained under the sun
there is nothing new to be learned and honored
nothing that i have not already loved and lost to
the business that god has given to sons of men
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November 4, 2009

"my raccoon has hepatitis" woody allen
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November 3, 2009

(in memory of hunter s thompson)

i too am chilled to the marrow
sleepless
longing for rest
relief from these chains
and shackles
and scared of the darkness

i hear you outside my window
vying for my attention
cat-calling and cackling
throwing rocks
i hear them plunk and clink
against the steel bars
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November 2, 2009

resisted the urge to chop mom up
into little bits and tiny pieces and 
strewn across the grocery store
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two pots of tea at trident
and a pepsi at lolitas
and a bloomsbury review at eads
and a drive back to denver
some spontaneous research on
an american playwright
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