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Beginning April 28th, I’ll be teaching a 6-week course on Poetry as Memoir over at the Mt. Airy Learning Tree. How cool is that?!?
The course description & registration are up online now…. but here’s an overview:
Most of us have saved up stories-crazy things we did as kids, family legends and legacies, anecdotes about our [...]

so, i was just listening to Skin Radio, and I – unexpectedly – heard the last lines of my own poem, Brotherly Love. Exciting? Yes, definitely. Then, after my poem finished, the station rolled into the next song — “Rain King,” by the Counting Crows. I dig the Counting Crows very much, [...]

Last week, I went out to Manayunk to the Skin Radio studios to record “Brotherly Love” for inclusion in the funky little format they’ve got going over there at 1340AM and skinradio.com.
So, according to the Program Director, they’ll be playing the poem in three parts today @ 12.45p, 2.45p, and 4.45p. You should listen [...]

Oh yes — that’s me there on the cover of this week’s Center City Weekly Press.
My good pal, Kerry O’Connor, Sports Editor for the Weekly Press, wrote a feature on my Eagles poem (and my general fanaticism) and then printed the poem in the paper, on page five. Check it out! [...]

This Saturday, January 27th, 1-3pm
Poetry Workshop at the Big Blue Marble Bookstore
The first meeting, on January 13th, drew a talented, insightful, and enthusiastic group of poets, and we decided to keep the workshop going on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of every month! Of course, there’s always room for more. So, if you’ve [...]

so, via the Poetry Hut Blog, I came upon this list from the Inky, entitled “Favorite Poet or Poem“. Thing is, there is no real context for the list. There’s this editorial or commentary type of thing that links to it, but I can’t seem to find any explanation of how this list [...]

Just a reminder to all the poets out there that I’ll be leading a workshop tomorrow at the Big Blue Marble. The workshop is free and all are welcome. There’s no need to register in advance, just come by at 1p and bring 10 copies of a poem. Get the full details [...]

…you’ll be kicking yourself, because this is going to be a good one.
The Monday Poets
featuring Autumn Konopka and Ashraf Osman
January 8, 2007 – Monday, 6:30p.m.
Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Branch {Directions}
an open mic follows the featured readings, so bring your poems!

This afternoon, the Little Mister stumbled upon this video from a reading I did last January on Cafe Improv, a weekly variety show on public access television in Princeton. How random?!?! I had no idea it was even on the Internets. And it’s not half bad… well, except for my goofy flock-of-seagulls [...]

howard’s haiku today. it’s excellent — especially if, like me, you’re coming down from your own culinary disaster(s)…