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Image-ine: Rally of Aqua

By Maureen Doallas 9 Comments

The scrape of palette knife an accident of memory…

Filed Under: Image-ine, visual poetry

Image-ine: Child Poet

By Maureen Doallas 9 Comments

She grew up to be a poet…

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Alice and the Chinese Jar 5

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Below are the final five poems from the recent Twitter poetry party.

Filed Under: poetry, Twitter poetry

Alice and the Chinese Jar 4

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Something unusual happened with this group during the Twitter poetry party; you’ll see it in the last two poems.

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Alice and the Chinese Jar

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Last Thursday night, there was another gathering of the Tweetspeakers for a Twitter poetry party.

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National Poetry Month: Maureen Doallas — and a Giveaway

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Maureen Doallas is an honors graduate of Vassar College, and has been a features writer and editor for more than 35 years. One of her poems is included in the Gulf of Mexico charity anthology Oil and Water… and Other Things That Don’t Mix (LL-Publications, 2010); two poems appear at Poets for Living Waters; and […]

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Talking with Maureen Doallas about “Neruda’s Memoirs”

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

An interview with poet Maureen Doallas, about her background and poetic history, going into the publishing of her first book ‘Neruda’s Memoirs.’

Filed Under: article, Poets

“Neruda’s Memoirs: Poems” by Maureen Doallas

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

You know how it can be with expectations. You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it comes, you feel slightly deflated, because the expectation was bigger than the reality. That didn’t happen with Neruda’s Memoirs: Poems by Maureen Doallas. In fact, just the opposite happened. The reality exceeded my expectations, and […]

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Diane Walker Reads Title Poem “Neruda’s memoirs”

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Diane Walker, a friend of poet Maureen Doallas, reads the title poem from Maureen’s recently published Neruda’s Memoirs: Poems. (Diane created the video, too.)

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“Neruda’s Memoirs” by Maureen Doallas

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Maureen Doallas is a regular participant in our poetry jams on Twitter, and the author of blog Writing Without Paper. Her online eye ranges over a vast array of art, poetry and culture, and she freely shares what she she finds with the rest of us. T.S. Poetry Press has just published (“just” as in […]

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National Poetry Month: Maureen Doallas

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Maureen Doallas is one of our regular contributors to the Tweetspeak Poetry-sponsored poetry jams on Twitter. She writes beautiful words, and not just poetry. She blogs at Writing Without Paper, where she covers poetry, art and culture in general – and covers them comprehensively and with great depth and insight. Below are two of Maureen’s poems. […]

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Walter Bargen: Days Like This Are Necessary

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Last summer, I drove to a high school in a central St. Louis suburb for a writing and publishing fair. Seminars were held inside the school; the parking lot had been cordoned off for booths, demonstration areas and even a children’s playground. I wandered around the large number of booths, and then came to one […]

Filed Under: poetry

New Orleans Poem: We Can Remember

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Americana poem peeks into New Orleans, white columns, and water washed.

Filed Under: Americana Poems, Blog, Grief Poems, Poems, poetry, Twitter poetry

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