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National Poetry Month 2018: Blackout Poetry #7

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Blackout Poetry #7 don’t explain where you’ve been and why you haven’t returned I… I’ve been around feeling sorry for myself Maybe it was my fault? My hell. I backed away from friends
National Poetry Month 2018: Blackout Poetry #6

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Blackout Poetry #6 It’s nature To find innocence horrible I would be your whore for a moment
National Poetry Month 2018: Blackout Poetry #5

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Blackout Poetry #5 midnight monster-movie marathon on my sofa in pajamas and fangs
National Poetry Month 2018: Blackout Poetry #4

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Blackout Poetry #4 I remember our family mother sick in the end Nobody wanted this
National Poetry Month 2018: Blackout Poetry #3

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Blackout Poetry #3 Come with me. promise to take me tell me we live happily ever after a fairy tale
Movie Review: The Towering Inferno (1974)

CATEGORY: cinephile, classic movies, couch potato, film and tv, film review, movie, movie review

It would be pretty hard to exist as an adult in our society without having at least an idea of what The Towering Inferno (1974) is about. There are countless pop culture references to the film and, even if you had somehow missed them, you could guess what it’s about because, well, the name kind […]
National Poetry Month 2018: Blackout Poetry #2

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Blackout Poetry #2 I promise you won’t burn up too much how long will I be new? I thought. I’d be new till I said a final good-bye to live forever how are you? he answered me “Old.” I would be falling away
National Poetry Month 2018: Blackout Poetry #1

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I spent several months working on a book of blackout poetry and, now that it’s finally complete, I’m excited to share it with you. If you’re not familiar with it, blackout poetry (also known as Erasure) is an art form that involves crossing out (blacking out) lines of text to make a poem out of […]
National Poetry Month

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April is National Poetry Month! Here’s what Poets.org has to say about the event: National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture. Basically, […]
Movie Review: Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

CATEGORY: cinema, cinephile, classic movies, film and tv, film review, movie review, sci fi

As we sat down to watch Battle Beyond the Stars, Jay shook his head and said, “I don’t know what you’re going to make of this one…” Well, that’s a heck of a start, isn’t it? I was surprised to learn that Battle Beyond the Stars is a Roger Corman film. Then, I watched it and… […]