Our First Poetry of 2011

Come take a gander at the poetry of Danny P. Barbare, Rick Mullin, John Sibley Williams, Robert Wexelblatt and Christopher Crawford.

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Dodge Leaves the Hinterlands

Billy Collins: the change of venue, you might say, reflects the venue of contemporary poetry. I think most poets have gotten over the obsession with landscape that dominated the 19th century. Poetry has moved into a more interior psychological space. And it's not being written on a bench in the English countryside but in an apartment somewhere in the middle of an urban setting.

Clement Price: Waterloo was a lovely setting, but it was white-audience-based. Here I think there will be people of color, working-class people, people closer to the margins of society. And that's a good thing.

Joe Weil: Americans should not be allowed to cloister their goodies away from the poor.

All I can say is WOW. I live a handful of miles from Waterloo, NJ, and I can promise you that this place is not cloistered, not free from poverty. It is lovely, yes. It is rural, yes. But it is no longer exclusively white and it has never been wealthy.

And listen to Billy Collins telling us where poetry is being written, telling us that an urban apartment is more psychological than a park bench... huh?

Who are these people who can't celebrate one place without denigrating another?

Any cloistering from poverty is due to the exorbitant fees one must pay to attend Dodge, not the location.

Chess game between Don and Zoe

Another game of poetry chess... Don begins as he always does, with the king's pawn. Zoe replies with the Sicilian defense.

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What is Surrealism?

All submissions through October 31 must answer this question. Any medium, any format, any genre.

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Chess Between Poets: Zoe and Greg

An ongoing game of chess between poets Zoe and Greg.

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Chess: Contributor vs. Editor

A game of chess between Greg Grummer and Don Zirilli. We were writing poems for every move, which I hope you will read some day.

The game was agreed to be a draw, because after he takes my pawn I can tuck my King in the corner and force myself to be stalemated.

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chess between poets

This game of chess was played on a poetry forum by Don and Pam, who wrote poems for every move of the game.

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