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Exhibit to honor late W.Va. poet laureate
This AP story via Ben Adducchio of W.Va. Public Broadcasting will be of interest to MountainWord readers: Louise McNeillFAIRMONT, W.Va. (AP) — The Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center...
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Change unchanging
“Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” ~Anais Nin
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The poem as photograph
Try writing a poem reacting to or acting as a photograph. Maybe it could be the photo above, which I took last winter, or it could be something else. For a look at how a first-rate poet does something...
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The poet as trickster
“Metaphor is the basic trick of language, and we are sometimes impatient with tricksters. But the door between reality and the imagination can’t do without a hinge.” –J. Edward Chamberlin
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Don Share named editor of Poetry magazine
Don Share will be the next editor of Poetry Magazine. Currently senior editor of the magazine, he will begin his role as editor on July 1. He has taught at Harvard, and was curator of the Woodberry...
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A Sesquicentennial poem
W.Va. Poet Laureate Marc Harshman has written a Sesquicentennial poem & will read an abridged version of it Thursday, June 20, at the Capitol sometime after 1:50 p.m.
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Harshman’s new collection “All That Feeds Us”
A key collection by an outstanding poet — Marc Harshman‘s new book, “All That Feeds Us: The West Virginia Poems.”
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The inner quarrel
The inner struggle with ourselves as bait for the muse…. “We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.” —William Butler Yeats, “Anima Hominis,” Essays...
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Morgantown Poets 2013 Fundraiser
Morgantown Poets 2013 Fundraiser with Kirk Judd, Amber Decker, and William F. DeVault featured July 27 at MAC.
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Reminder: Mountain Word is on Facebook
A new, more flexible version of Mountain Word is now on Facebook. It’s easier than ever for everyone to contribute, read, listen, watch, comment, add links and generally interact with and enjoy...
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