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alee_grrl

Sunday, every Sunday, let's have a community picnic. It's probably been a long week, and it's lovely to have a few minutes to sit back and relax and enjoy some good conversation in a less formal space. Feel free to bring something for the Picnic Basket - a poem you liked this week, a thought you had or something you experienced, or even something completely unrelated to poetry whatsoever that you just feel like sharing. Just take a moment to say hello, and maybe have a bite to eat; no one is going anywhere fast, and the shade promises some relief from the everyday heat. Let’s get to know each other a bit better, here under the branches of the poet’s tree.

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poetree_admin

Have a poetry-related post or posts this week from your own journal/space that you'd like to share with the community? Comment on this thread with the link(s) and a brief description of you're linking to.

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poetree_admin

This is the thread for non-personal, i.e. 'general' poetry news. Submission deadlines for poetry-related 'zines, news re: poets from outside the comm, and so on.

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poetree_admin

Are you a member of

poetree? If you plan on hosting an online poetry event of some kind this week, please let the admins know by PM or by commenting on this thread, and we will post a short advertisement on your behalf to the comm.

Edited Date: 2013-05-12 09:15 pm (UTC)

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poetree_admin

We are pushing back the date for when

poetree comes off hiatus. We will officially be off hiatus May 26. The first week back is going to be a multi-hosted themed week and a sign up post will go up sometime today or tomorrow.

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jjhunter

Send your name & message to Mars with the MAVEN! (in haiku):

Who can submit a name and where will it go?

Anybody on planet Earth is welcome to participate! However, to create a log-in you must be 18 or older. If you are under 18 and you would like to enter, please ask your parent or teacher for help.

Your name will be written to a DVD and sent into Mars orbit on the MAVEN spacecraft.

What is the Message to Mars contest?

Craft your own original message to Mars! Messages, which must be in the form of a haiku poem, will be voted on by the public; the top three most popular entries will be sent to Mars onboard the MAVEN spacecraft and will be prominently displayed on the MAVEN website.

Messages must be in English.

Submissions are open until the end of May.

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jjhunter

photograph of stack of books lying one on top of the other such that the titles of each book form an impromptu poem: 'A Day at the Beach' / 'The Bathers' / 'Shark 1' / 'Shark 2' / 'Shark 3' / 'SUDDEN VIOLENCE' / 'SILENCE'

This tumblr post of photos seems relevant to all our interests:

Nina Katchadourian - Sorted Books

“I suddenly recalled a moment in the university library when, looking for a book, I had turned my head sideways as I walked down the stacks and thought how spectacular it would be if all the titles formed an accidental sentence when read one after the other in a long chain. Standing amidst the bookshelves in Half Moon Bay, my next move was simply to make this imaginary accident real. I spent days shifting and arranging books, composing them so that their titles formed short sentences. The exercise was intimate, like a form of portraiture, and it felt important that the books I selected should function as a cross section of the larger collection.”