Poet Hound

If you are able to read this then you are not blind, so for this week’s idea for poetry it is to write a poem as though you really are blind...

“Our guidelines are deliberately vague because we have nothing worthwhile to say. It’s up to you to take us beyond what has gone before.emai...

http://www.poems.com/poem.php?date=14218 Craig Arnolds’ “from A Place of First Permission” http://www.versedaily.org/2008/spoke.shtml Erin M...

I picked up Frank O’Hara’s book, Meditations In An Emergency at my local library and was very happy to read through it. Born June 27th, 192...

I received this via e-mail and hope some of you may find it interesting and perhaps useful for next year since it has come and gone already,...

Most of us keep poems on our computer nowadays but I used to keep them in a spiral notebook—at least the “final” versions once they were fin...

The editors read year round so please make a note of that for future reference when most other publishers close their reading periods. You ...

http://www.jwhagins.com/benca.html “White Christmas” by Nick Benca http://www.blossombones.com/summer08/cook_s08.html “Stop Motion Lamb Figu...

Lynda Hull was born December 5th, in 1954 in Newark, New Jersey. Although she passed away early in 1994 in a car accident, she has quite a ...

This blog is by a woman living in Florida, much like myself, who blogs about her poetic finds and endeavors along with many other interestin...

Many people think the holidays bring out the worst in business through crass commercialism and overdone decorations in the stores, not to me...

Happy Thanksgiving! If you’ve got some time over your holiday weekend, try submitting poems to Crazy Horse. This is one of the few places t...

http://juked.com/2008/11/badtoothbrushes.asp “Bad Toothbrushes” by Sarah Sloat http://www.poems.com/poem.php?date=14207 “Our Lady of Peace H...

When I first started blogging, this was one of the sites I stumbled on. Here you can find guest bloggers, full length featured poems, infor...

You may send 3 to 6 poems (translations welcome) with a short bio (with pertinent info. including name, address, etc.) to: Indiana ReviewBal...