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  • David Franks: Walkabout…

    After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace... 

    Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse
    (please see my blog): 
    TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001 

    Where traditions are not so rare; 
        Sea, country and works scent the air; 
    A multitude of monuments, 
        Planted tubs and patterned pavements. 

    The longish pedestrian malls; 
        The remnants of defensive walls; 
    Historic buildings are a gauge 
        Of the respect for heritage. 

    Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; 
        Estuaries guarded by shields; 
    Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; 
        Romantic-ruin go-betweens. 

    Rivers in parts licked by trees, 
        Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, 
    And crossed by practical delights - 
        Varied spans, forming pleasing sights. 

    Fine churches headed at Durham; 
        Football kits ad infinitum; 
    Kept castles - one for study; 
        Masonry behind masonry. 

    And, with moulding-works out that way, 
    It’s somewhere for a longer stay..? 

    (C) David Franks 2003

    3 years ago
  • David Franks: Walkabout…

    (Hi: enjoyed my visit.) 

    After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace... 

    Poem 2 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse
    (please see my blog): 
    WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN 

    Once drove an old sedan, up north, 
    From a place in Sydney to Cairns; 
    Then to Kuranda I went forth, 
    By train, to look without set plans.

    I browsed through the trendy market, 
    With fresh fruits of tropical kind; 
    Walked to the creek through lush thicket - 
    Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.

    I dined in a scenic cafe; 
    Then, outside, as I wrote for yen, 
    Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey, 
    You go walkabout with your pen.” 

    Request or question, I don’t know -
    Assured voices, elderly men.
    That’s now several years ago, 
    And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.

    (C) David Franks 2003

    3 years ago
  • Oneal Walters

    Hi Fulcrum

    Oneal Walters 2nd Annual Love Poem Contest

    This is a call to ALL poets who write Love Poems. Write about any aspect of love. You can write about expressing love and having it not returned, interacting with the one you love or surprise us. Do not write ‘definition of love’ poems. "ALL " writers welcomed, original and unpublished entries. Winners will be notified in August, 2009 by Love Poet and Author of The Age Begins, Oneal Walters.

    1st Place $110 US, plus interviewed in Chapter and Verse,
    2nd Place $60 US
    3rd Place $30 US

    Submission fee $7.00 US (Approx $8.44 CAN) per poem
    Multiple submissions accepted, submission fee per poem

    DEADLINE: July 6, 2009

    Be the 1st to win our 2nd Annual Love Poem Contest!

    Full details: www.myspace.com/onealwalters

    3 years ago
  • U.S. Poets in Mexico

    Happy Valentine’s Day
    and
    Thank you for being a friend of U.S. Poets in Mexico!

    4 years ago
  • David Rowe

    WRITER’S PRAYER
    By Samuel Johnson

    O Lord, who hast hitherto supported me, enable me to proceed in this labor, & in the whole task of my present state; that when I shall render up, at the last day, an account of the talent committed to me, I may receive pardon, for the sake of Jesus Christ,

    Amen.

    4 years ago
  • Slamophone

    Dear Katia & Philip !

    Shame I haven't yet had the time
    To let you know what, to us, matters :
    Here's who we are, in a few words,
    Or should I say, in a few letters ...



    "Le Slamophone is a tribute
    To this one lesson we've been missing
    To these slam poets who remind us
    To get along, we need to listen ..."


    4 years ago
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  • Oneal Walters

    Hi Poets


    WOMEN in 2009 Poetry Contest



    1st Place $110 US, plus interviewed,

    2nd Place $60 US

    3rd Place $30 US

    Submission fee $7.
    00 US
    per poem



    "ALL" writers welcomed, original and unpublished entries.



    Winners will be notified in April, 2009 by
    Oneal Walters, and their names published
    here. All poems remain the property of the writer.




    DEADLINE: MARCH 12, 2008


    The Only Poetry Contest you need to enter this year.

    4 years ago
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    Poetry, poets, poetic history and philosophy, form, aesthetics, Beckett. This site ignores submissions! All unsolicited submissions must be mailed as hard copy in June-August only. Read Fulcrum before submitting!

    From out of nowhere, FULCRUM has in only a few years established itself as a must-read journal, a unique annual of literary and intellectual substance positioned on the cutting edge of culture. - BILLY COLLINS Help promote FULCRUM! ..Display the above FULCRUM banner on your Web page or profile!.. It's easy! Message us with your email address: we'll send you the HTML code to copy and paste...
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    ..FULCRUM'S SELECTED BLURBS..

    A must-read journal, a unique annual of literary and intellectual substance positioned on the cutting edge of culture. -- Billy Collins

    Keep your eye on FULCRUM! -- August Kleinzahler

    Each issue is a treasure! -- Don Share, Curator, Harvard U. Library Poetry Room

    The most philosophically astute poetry journal available! -- Simon Critchley

    One of the liveliest, most challenging poetry journals now on the market. -- Marjorie Perloff

    The reach and variety of FULCRUM is very welcome... No wonder people are taking notice. -- John Tranter

    FULCRUM... where intelligence refuses to die. -- Charles Bernstein

    FULCRUM offers an unprecedented project in American letters today. -- Jacket magazine

    FULCRUM is a space without fences -- and that is to be respected and celebrated. -- John Kinsella

    Fulcrum #5
    Fulcrum #4
    Fulcrum #3
    Fulcrum #2
    Fulcrum #1

    ..BOOKS BY OUR STAFF..:

    English -- poems by Jeet Thayil, Contributing Editor

    Bridge and Tunnel -- poetry by John Hennessy, Contributing Editor

    Gogol in Rome -- poetry by Katia Kapovich, Coeditor-in-Chief

    Letters from Aldenderry -- poetry by Philip Nikolayev, Coeditor-in-Chief

    Monkey Time (Verse Prize winner) -- poetry by Philip Nikolayev, Coeditor-in-Chief

    Johanna Poems -- a chapbook by Ben Mazer, Contributing Editor

    Forgery -- a new novel by Sabina Murray, Fulcrum's Literary Advisor

    Universal Beach -- by Vivek Narayanan, Associate Editor
  • Heroes

    Samuel Gareginyan, an astonishing painter and Fulcrum's Art Advisor

    Igor Tkachenko -- genius composer and pianist, Fulcrum's Music Editor

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Welcome to FULCRUM's satellite page! Click here to visit ..FULCRUM's official website at http://fulcrumpoetry.com.

Edited by US-based poets Philip Nikolayev and Katia Kapovich, FULCRUM: an annual of poetry and aesthetics is a 500-page one-of-a-kind international serial anthology that includes poetry, critical and philosophical essays on poetry, debates, and visual art. It distills an evolving map of what is most vital in the poetic process throughout the regions populated by the English language.

Present-day poetry does not yet know itself well. Genuinely international, broadminded, intelligent anthologies remain in short supply. FULCRUM welcomes poetry marked by diverse accents, in a variety of forms, registers and dialects. At the same time, we work against the balkanization of the art into ideological "camps" and "schools."

You may be curious about poetry yet confused or even frustrated by its current situation, or you may be a leading expert on the state of the art. In either event, you need just one unique periodical that covers it all in a well-informed and tasteful manner and presents an evolving atlas of the poetic terrain worldwide, from the US and Canada and the Caribbean to England, Scotland and the two Irelands, from India to Africa, from Sri Lanka to the Isle of Man, from Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines to New Zealand and Australia. FULCRUM is your indispensable guide in this circumnavigation.

..SOME RELEVANT LINKS..:

Fulcrum #1 reviewed in Shearsman
Fulcrum #1 featured in Big Bridge (ignore subscription info!!!)
Fulcrum #2 reviewed in Jacket
Fulcrum #3 reviewed in Jacket
Fulcrum #4 reviewed in Verse
Fulcrum #4 reviewed in Jacket

Katia Kapovich
Gogol in Rome reviewed in Jacket
Gogol in Rome reviewed in Shearsman

Philip Nikolayev
interviewed by The Argotist
Monkey Time reviewed in Jacket
Monkey Time reviewed in Shearsman
Letters from Aldenderry on Ploughshares Editor's Shelf

Who I'd like to meet:

The finest poets, artists, critics and philosophers of our times, whether known or not.

Returning to Calcutta, I carried FULCRUM with me on the flight: a poetry journal from America... Its internationalism brings different literatures together and addresses, in a new way, the primacy of literature. -- Amit Chaudhuri in The Times of India

Today's world visits to FULCRUM's page

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    • Cambridge, MA US

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