"Pandora" by Rhydian W. Thomas

� Rhydian W. Thomas, 2011. The poem first appeared in Hue & Cry Issue No. 5, and is reproduced with permission of the author.

Editor: Sarah Jane Barnett


Ever since reading "Pandora" the poem has stayed with me. I thought it would make an interesting Tuesday Poem as it's quite unusual. For me, I can't think of another poem that has

So There by Robert Creeley

for Penelope Highton


Da. Da. Da da.
Where is the song.



from Hello by Robert Creeley (1926 - 2005) . Hawk Press: Taylors Mistake, 1976


Click here to hear it read by Robert Creeley at the NZ Electronic Poetry Centre and read it yourself here.




Editor: Madeleine Slavick



I found Hello on
my third visit to New Zealand. A small, worn book, at 28 pages, beautifully handset
and

Winter Poetry and Prose Getaway 2013

 

The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
and Murphy Writing Seminars Present
The 20th Annual WINTER POETRY & PROSE GETAWAY

January 18-21, 2013

With Special Guests Stephen Dunn & Dorianne Laux

Get away to write at the Stockton Seaview Hotel (Galloway, NJ) to advance your craft and energize your writing. Enjoy challenging and supportive sessions, insightful feedback, and an encouraging community. Choose from small, intensive workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and memoir.

Workshops include:
�Poetry Writing
�Advanced Poetry Writing
�Advanced Poetry Writing with Stephen Dunn
�Advanced Poetry Writing with Dorianne Laux
�Creative Writing Sampler (Fiction, Memoir, Poetry)
�Free-Writing Intensive: A Generative Workshop for All Genres
�Beginning Your Novel
�Finishing Your Novel
�Visions and Revision: Creative Nonfiction & Novel
�Writing and Publishing Your Fiction
�Writing and Publishing Your Fiction - Advanced
�Writing for the YA & Crossover Market
�The Art & Craft of Creative Nonfiction
�The Art & Craft of Creative Nonfiction - Advanced
�Turning Memory into Memoir
�What Matters is Not What Happened: Advanced Memoir
�Song Writing


In addition to your workshop, the weekend offers craft talks, one-on-one tutorials, a featured reading, open mics, yoga, and dancing at the Getaway Disco! Tuition and room packages include most meals.

Apply now for a Scholarship for first-time participants to the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway, January 18-21, 2013, at the Jersey Shore.

The Toni Brown Memorial Scholarship, sponsored by the Getaway faculty and staff, will offer places to two poets or writers age 31 and over. Deadline: Nov.18, 2012

The Jan-ai Scholarship Fund will sponsor two poets or writers between the ages of 18 - 30 who are residents of NJ, NY, or PA. Deadline: Nov. 30, 2012.

Recipients may choose from workshops in Beginning Your Novel, YA, Writing and Publishing Your Fiction, Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Free-writing, Poetry, including special advanced sections with Stephen Dunn and Dorianne Laux, and more. The three-day conference also offers craft talks, one-on-one tutorials, a featured reading, open mics, yoga, and dancing at the Getaway Disco.

LEARN MORE AND APPLY TODAY - www.wintergetaway.com/scholarship.html

Visit www.wintergetaway.com for workshop descriptions, faculty bios, and registration information.

Follow Murphy Writing Seminars on Facebook

Hal Sirowitz Said

We got a late start on November here at Poets Online because of Hurricane Sandy and a follow up nor'easter that played games with our power, so we have a new brief prompt for this abbreviated month.

Hal Sirowitz is one of the funniest poets I have ever heard read. There is something about his deadpan, Steven Wright delivery that makes his monologue poems sound like stand up routines.

Sons

We�re Jewish, Father said.
So we don�t believe in Christ.
If God wanted us to worship Jesus
he would have arranged for us to be born
into an Italian family. I have nothing
against Him. He was probably a very nice man.
You have to give Him credit for trying.
A lot of people still believe He�s the Son of God.
I don�t know what He had against His real father.
But if you ever did that to me,
said you were someone else�s son, I�d be insulted.

Many people know him best for his three "said" books - Mother Said, My Therapist Said and Father Said . In poems like "Red, Red Bra" and others, he gives us monologues that are full of irony, humor and Sirowitz.

A simple prompt: a poem that is all monologue. Mother said, father said, therapist, teacher, lover, wife, husband - it's your call.

Submission deadline: Sunday, December 2, 2012



                Hal Sirowitz - "Chopped Off Arm"

Transport, by Riemke Ensing