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A final word of thanks

18 Sunday Nov 2012

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Al Filreis, ModPo, thanks

I would like to take a final moment to thank Professor Al Filreis of the University of Pennsylvania and his TA’s for putting on a terrific course in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry at Coursera.    ModPo was far more rigorous and challenging than I expected, and it proved just the thing I needed to get past a three year long writer’s block.  I also met some great writers, some of whom are following this blog (and I’m following theirs).

This blog is a direct result of the influence of ModPo, and was created in hope of  developing a community interested in the serious (but fun!) study and practice of poetry.

Al, I can’t possibly thank you enough, but I will do my best to do you proud.  I am very much looking forward to the opportunity to be your student once again.  Until then, I will dwell in Possibility.

See you at the Kelly Writer’s House when I have a chance to make the pilgrimage to Philly.

Influences

18 Sunday Nov 2012

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aleatoric, poetry

become dispelled

this parted loving

dawning upon me

 

divine revelations

influences terror doctrines

thought forms dawning

 

peaceful suffering

exerting transmuted influences

experiencing blissful light

Image

Fountain

18 Sunday Nov 2012

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Half remembered

18 Sunday Nov 2012

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aleatoric, history, Leningrad, poetry, World War II

Plumber
finished it and

in spades

they flower the right vegetable
and the cold army arrived

cold

1941
June half remembered
France Russia

Leningrad

modern Soviet music
most described exist

provisional

in an important strength
prisoners hold in people

just such

which difficulties as this
at inducement did come

half caste

charge all growled
elder seemed other

that return

Child’s Play

18 Sunday Nov 2012

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Acrylic. November 17, 2012. By Hayley Means, Melanie Means, and Mark Snyder.

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