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Carl Bettis
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For any "thou shalt not" rule of writing, art or music, you can find counter-examples from the greatest works of literature, art or music. Take for instance the monotonously-repeated caution against "-ing" words in poetry. Count the number of such words in Eliot's "The Waste Land." Or read the opening line of Yeats's "The Second [...]
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Power lines
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Cthulhu-ku: Haiku in the Cthulhu Mythos
— published 2011 |
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Tennis without a net: rhyme and rhythm in free verse
— published 2011 — 2 editions |
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Professional Java Data
by Danny Ayers, John Bell, Glenn E. Mitchell — published 2001 |
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Carl Bettis
wrote a new blog post: Carl’s First Law of Art: Thou Shalt
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Carl Bettis
said "yes" to attending the event:
Riverfront Readings featuring Alan Proctor and Miguel Morales
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May 10, 2013 08:00PM
location: Riverfront Readings at The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania, Kansas City, MO, The United States description: Alan R. Proctor writes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. His work has been included in New Letters, Chautauqua, Loon, Kansas City Voices, Crosstimbers, Off Channel and The Red Book among other journals. He was twice a Reader's Digest finalist in poetry and was a winner in the 2012 Rex Rogers Formal Poetry Contest (Whispering Prairie Press). Alan is a former humor columnist, tree surgeon, vice president of a public university and classical guitarist. He thinks "good writing should sing."...more |
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Pirate Cinema
is a young adult novel by the prolific Cory Doctorow. I've been around for over half a century, so I'm not exactly this book's target demographic. Nevertheless, I think I can say this is one of Doctorow's weaker efforts. The rest of thi...more |
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