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Pandemic Submissions
Straw Dog Writers Guild is looking for submissions about the Pandemic for their website. Check it out:
Link to the Emily Dickinson Reading May 7 at 6:30 pm EST
The Emily Dickinson Museum will be sponsoring a poetry reading on Thursday, May 7 at 6:30 pm Eastern Standard Time. Here’s a link to the Television Station:
https://amherstmedia.org/channel/15/schedule

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Emily Dickinson Museum Sponsors Poetry Reading May 7 at 6:30 pm (EST)
The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst Massachusetts is sponsoring a poetry reading with some excellent poets. You can view this by going to the Amherst Media Website:
http://161.77.57.225/CablecastPublic

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They are broadcasting Arts Night Out from 5 to 8 pm. View the reading with the Emily Dickinson Museum from 6:30 to 7:30 EST
Emily Dickinson Museum Sponsors a Zoom Poetry Reading on May 7
The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, MA is staging a zoom poetry reading, in conjunction with the Florence Poets Society, on Thursday, May 7 at 6:30 pm (Eastern Standard Time.) Check it out:
https://www.facebook.com/events/523548854988004/

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Zoom Book Launch

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I went to my first zoom book launch. I think this will be the new trend. There were about 40 participants and I liked it. Has anyone else experienced this?
A Seguidilla Poem

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i
posted this Seguidilla, a Spanish seven line syllabic poem with the syllable counts. Someone suggested I post it without the syllable counts, so here it is:
Renewal
Two oak trees bare their branches
Fractured by moon bright
ice on a lakefront ripples
Clouds capture the light
With glittering gem
Leafless solitary stems
I wander alone
Has anyone else tried this form?
Motivating Writing at Home
- What motivates you to write at home? I have been trying different things. My latest as a poet is exploring different forms, like the Seguidilla. This is a verse form from Spain of seven syllable counted lines (7,5,7,5,5, 7 5.) Between the second and the fourth there’s a rhyme and the fifth and the seventh. Here’s my attempt at a Seguidilla:
Renewal
Two oak trees bare their branches (7)
Coupled by their height (5)
ice on a lakefront ripples (7)
Clouds capture moonlight (5)
With glittering gems (5)
Leafless solitary stems (7)
I wander alone (5)

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Blogging in the Time of Corona
- Now that I have infinite time to write and blog, I find myself resisting the urge and cooking and wiping things down as we’re told to do a hundred times a day. How do others feel about blogging?

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