This came from Dawn - sounds like fun! Anyone want to go?

Poets & Writers is having a 35th Anniversary WRITERS BASH party on Wednesday, June 22, from 6-9 pm, to honor ALL poets and writers. It's going to be held at the Bowery Ballroom, on Delancey Street, corner of Delancey and Bowery. Free admission free refreshments, drinks, music--a band, live music. Poets & Writers is inviting people LIBERALLY--meaning, bring as many writer friends as you want.... With one caveat:

You must RSVP. The way the event is set up, they'll just check your name off the list at the door. But the more the better.

To RSVP, respond by e-mail to Tim Gyves of Poets&Writers, at tgyves@pw.org. Or call 212-226-3586, ex. 201. He prefers e-mail.

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There's something I like about an experiment coming to a clean end.

Walt Whitman's Birthday

Shouldn't it be a national holiday for poets?

"Leisure is the womb of poetry"

A writer's mountain retreat at an elevation of 6,500 ft. on the Mogollon Rim of Arizona in the midst of beautiful ponderosa pines and the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest is offering year round residencies from one to four weeks.

Writers who seek privacy and a quiet retreat accommodating two artists at a time are encouraged to apply. Each residency includes a private entry, bedroom, studio and bath with access to a common living room, kitchen and small library. The weekly fee is $500. Submit a resume with eight to ten pages of poetry, fiction, or creative non-fiction and a $25 application fee. Send an SASE, call or e-mail for complete guidelines. During the months of April and September programs are held at the Center. The Porter Mountain House Center for Creative Writing (PMHCC) in partnership with Northland Pioneer College.

Contact: ayarmal@wmonline.com
80 Timber Ridge Loop, Show Low, AZ 85901 or
Diane Miller,Northland Pioneer College Community Coordinator,P.O.Box 610,
Holbrook, AZ 86025-0610 Tel. 1-800-266-7845 x6245.

Anyone can post a poem here, as long as you register and are logged in. There are basically two ways to do it:

To post in the wiki section:
Put the poem's name in the Quick Edit box (at left) and click edit.
A new wiki page will open up.
Put your poem there.
Add some formatting if you like - click quicktags for some help or use html if you know it.
Add some links if you like (use double parentheses to make a link to your user page like this ((UserPageSchmoe)) or use brackets to make a link to a website like this [http://example.com|mywebsite].

To post in the Writing section:
The advantage of this option is - your poem will display on the front page of the site (until other posts scroll it off the page).
Select Writing > Edit Writing.
A page comes up - fill out the information.
Suggestions: For topic, select poetry.
Put the whole poem in the Heading area if you want it to display all in one place. OR
Put part of the poem in the Heading area and the rest in the Body area if it's a longer piece.

Have it both ways:
Post your poem in the wiki and announce it on the front page!
1) Use the first approach to put your poem in the wiki.
2) Then use the second approach to link to your poem: Put ((MyPoemTitle)) in the heading.

Any questions? See the general forum getting started thread or email cednie at gemtactics.net

This comes from Ted Kooser's book, "The Poetry Home Repair Manual," page 6.

The Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, writing on William Butler Yeats, said (the emphasis is mine), "The aim of the poet and the poetry is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual work into the larger work of the community as a whole." That's good enough to cut out and pin up over your typewriter.

If you had a typewriter...

Part I

who else? what else? why else?

The climb of any mountain has a goal, its peak.

Don't forget, peoples, spring is not here, like it shoed bee. Your responbilitea, then, is to bring out the spring hiding within. Overpretentious?! So is this stubborn winter.
Signed: Miss Pelling

Welcome, onions, hosts, turtles, slants, and tangents,
refugees from philosophy and philosophical revolters,
beaters, smiles, curls, and twisters,

find here a new for(u)M for your words
wiki words and wiki wiki (quick quick) words
as well as those more lengthy

some of what you can do here is

• log in - click register in the login box to set yourself up as a user of this site with a name, password, and email address
• post to a forum - I set up 2 but we can add more
• have a "home page" - type your name in search and see if one comes up
• edit your page or someone else's page (as long as you are logged in to leave your trail)
• leave a trail of poems (wiki pages)
• post an article (review, rant, feedback, etc.)
• set up an event on the calendar

and a lot lot more
not sure what all

site like a flower of inspiration
attracting word and wiki wizards
we'll see how it will bloom

for ideas or questions, contact catherine
that's cednie at gemtactics.net