Sunday Picnic with Grilled Peaches & Puns

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jjhunter

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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weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

[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.

Re: weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

[jjhunter]

I thought this was pretty neat: Gwendolyn Brooks Gets Her Own Day

Gwendolyn Brooks was a National Treasure whose rewards during her lifetime never matched her deserts. She was the first African American to win the Pulitzer, the first black woman to be Library of Congress Consultant Poet (which is what we called our American laureates before we actually named them Poet Laureate)...

The first annual BROOKSDAY was this Friday just past, i.e. June 7th.

Re: weekly roundup thread - general poetry news

[zirconium]

LOVE. Thanks so much for highlighting this!