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We're a small, but hopefully growing, band of poets who like to talk about our craft and share what we've written. We'll highlight favorite poets, review new books, and explore the process of writing poetry from inspiration to conclusion. (We might venture into essays and short fiction, too.) We hope you'll like our blog — and contribute your own thought and poems.

Sally Zakariya, Poetry Editor
Richer Resources Publications

Charan Sue Wollard (LivermoreLit)
Kevin Taylor (Poet-ch'i)
Sherry Weaver Smith
(SherrysKnowledgeQuest)

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How to Appreciate a Poem

“Read it out loud. When you read a poem aloud, something amazing happens. It becomes a part of your physiology. Your body becomes actually involved in understanding and responding to it. You have more of a visceral reaction.”—Poet Richard Blanco, The New York Times Magazine, January 12, 2014

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‘Among the countless hollowed slopes …’

Eric Forsbergh’s new book, Imagine Morning: Poems of Companionship and Solitude, shows the range of his work, from longer, philosophical and narrative pieces to this brief but measured and precise description of a moment in time:

Meditation On Appalachia

Among the countless hollowed slopes of Appalachia,
the many tail-ends of valleys wending out
from Knoxville, narrowing eventually
to paths that vanish into curtained leaves,
where, once inside, only dots of sunlight
are permitted to speck the forest floor,
or creep across the mounds of moss, as slow
and imperceptible as deer whose breath
is stilled upon the snapping of a branch,
the shiny beetle crawls unhurriedly
to find the pulpy log’s decay..
 

 
Imagine Morning   

You can read more poems from the book here.

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50 Birds for Each of Us

“On any given day,” according to author Thor Hanson in his book Feathers, “up to four hundred billion individual birds may be found flying, soaring, swimming, hopping, or otherwise flitting about the earth. That's more than fifty birds for every human being.”

What will you do with your 50 birds? Perhaps write a poem for each one.—S.Z.

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What Are You Writing?

Why should we get all the bylines? Submit your latest poem—just one for now—and we’ll publish the poems we like best in an upcoming blog post. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know if the poem is accepted or published elsewhere. Send your poem, plus a few lines about yourself, in the body of an e-mail message to:

            poetryeditor@RicherResourcesPublications.com