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! - Poetry Submissions Calendar
A - Poetry of Conservation (NC Zoo Residency, 2012)
B - Index of featured poets
- Abbott, Tony
- Abbott, Tony (2)
- Abbott, Tony (3)
- Abbott, Tony (4)
- Abbott, Tony (5)
- Abbott, Tony (6)
- Absher, JS
- Absher, JS (2)
- Absher, JS (3)
- Absher, JS (4)
- Absher, JS (5)
- Ackerman, Kathy
- Ackerman, Kathy (2)
- Adcock, Betty
- Albrecht, Malaika King
- Alexander, Elizabeth
- Allingham, William
- Ammons, AR
- Ammons, AR (2)
- Ammons, AR (3)
- Ammons, AR (4)
- Ammons, AR (5)
- Atkinson, Jennifer
- Baddour, Margaret
- Baggett, Pam
- Baggett, Rebecca
- Baggett, Rebecca (2)
- Ball, Don
- Barasovska, Joan
- Barasovska, Joan (2)
- Barbee, Sam
- Barnes, Jodi
- Barrax, Gerald Sr.
- Bass, Ellen
- Bates, Jenny
- Bates, Jenny (2)
- Bates, Jenny (3)
- Bates, Jenny (4)
- Bathanti, Joseph
- Bathanti, Joseph (2)
- Bathanti, Joseph (3)
- Bathanti, Joseph (4)
- Bathanti, Joseph (5
- Battin, Wendy
- Beadle, Michael
- Beadle, Michael (2)
- Behar, Judith
- Berry, Wendell
- Berry, Wendell (2)
- Berry, Wendell (3)
- Blackhawk, Terry
- Blackley, Bill
- Bloom, Barbara
- Bowers, Cathy Smith
- Bowers, Cathy Smith (2)
- Boyd, James
- Breissert, Caleb
- Brown, Joyce Compton
- Brown, Les
- Buckley, BJ
- Buckner, Sally
- Byer, Kathryn Stripling
- Byer, Kathryn Stripling (2)
- Byer, Kathryn Stripling (3)
- Campbell, Mary Belle
- Carter, Catherine
- Carter, Catherine (2)
- Causley, Charles
- Cawood, Shuly Xóchitl
- Caywood, Bud
- Chappell, Fred
- Chappell, Fred (2)
- Chappell, Fred (3)
- Chappell, Fred (4)
- Chappell, Fred (5)
- Chess, Richard
- Ciardi, John
- Claytor, Sara
- Clifton, Lucille
- Coon, Miles A.
- Copeland, Beth
- Copeland, Beth (2)
- Corbett, Maryann
- Coulehan, Jack
- Craig, Susan
- Craven, Jane
- Crook, Noel
- Cushman, Stephen
- Dagenhart, Alana
- Deagon, Ann
- Deeley, Patrick
- Dickey, James
- Doolittle, Deborah H.
- Douglass, M. Scott
- Douglass, M. Scott (2)
- Dove, Rita
- Dreis, Sandra
- Dungy, Camille T.
- Dungy, Camille T. (2)
- Durham, Joanne
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Erickson, Terri Kirby
- Essinger, Cathryn
- Evans, Worthy
- Figura, Martin
- Frost, Robert
- Frost, Robert (2)
- Frost, Robert (3)
- Fyleman, Rose
- Gay, Ross
- Gay, Ross (2)
- Gibson, Becky Gould
- Gilbert, Jack
- Green, Jaki Shelton
- Griffin, Maureen Ryan
- Gunter-Seymour, Kari
- Gurumurthy, Aruna
- Hall, Donald
- Hall, Donald (s)
- Harjo, Jo
- Harjo, Jo (2)
- Harrington, Janice N.
- Haskins, Lola
- Haskins, Lola (2)
- Hayden, Robert
- Hayman, Carol Bessent
- Hennessey, Mary
- Hettich, Michael
- Hines, AE
- Hoagland, Tony
- Hogan, Linda
- Hooper, Patricia
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley (2)
- Hoppenthaler, John
- Hoppenthaler, John (2)
- Hoppenthaler, John (3)
- Jarrell, Randall
- Jeffers, Robinson
- Jeffers, Robinson (2)
- Jones, Paul
- Julian, Jeanne
- Kantchev, Nikolai
- Kaufman, Debra
- Kaufman, Debra (2)
- Kaufman, Debra (3)
- Kelly, Brigit Pegeen
- Kinnell, Galway
- Kinnell, Galway (2)
- Kinnell, Galway (3)
- Komunyakaa, Yusef
- Krawiec, Richard
- Kwochka, Annalee
- Kwochka, Annalee (2)
- Laux, Dorianne
- Laux, Dorianne (2)
- Lee, Mary Soon
- Lefler, Susan
- LeGuin, Ursula K.
- Leotta, Joan
- Lerner, Ben
- Levertov, Denise
- Lindenberg, Rebecca
- Lindsay, Sarah
- Lloyd, Morgan
- Losse, Helen
- Love, Sam
- Love, Sam (2)
- Loving, Denton
- Loving, Denton (2)
- Loving, Denton (3)
- MacLeish, Archibald
- MacLeish, Archibald (2)
- Makuck, Peter
- Makuck, Peter (2)
- Makuck, Peter (3)
- Manning, David
- Manning, David (2)
- Manning, David (3)
- Markham, Edwin
- Martin, Charles
- McClellan, George Marion
- Mead, Jane
- Mead, Jane (2)
- Merwin, W. S.
- Meyers, Susan Laughter
- Meyers, Susan Laughter (2)
- Mills, Joseph
- Moore, Lenard D.
- Moore, Lenard D. (2)
- Moore, Marianne
- Moose, Ruth
- Morgan, John
- Morgan, Robert
- Murray, Yvette
- Nelson, Marilyn
- Nieman, Valerie
- Nieman, Valerie (2)
- Nordt, Cal
- Nordt, Katie
- O'Connor, Kimberly
- Oliver, Mary
- Oliver, Mary (2)
- Oliver, Mary (3)
- Oliver, Mary (4)
- Olzmann, Matthew
- Oppen, George
- Owens, Scott
- Owens, Scott (2)
- Owens, Scott (3)
- Pack, Robert
- Pack, Robert (2)
- Pearson, James Larkin
- Peck, Gail
- Perry, Nathaniel
- Petersen, Paulann
- Peterson, Keith
- Phillips, Carl
- Pierce, Catherine
- Pinckney, Diana
- Pinckney, Diana (2)
- Pinckney, Diana (3)
- Pinckney, Diana (4)
- Poston, David (2)
- Poston, David E.
- Powell, Dannye Romine
- Powell, Dannye Romine (2)
- Price, Reynolds
- Pugatch, Ana
- Radavich, David
- Radavich, David (2)
- Ragan, Sam
- Ragan, Sam (2)
- Ragan, Sam (3)
- Rankine, Claudia
- Redmond, Glenis
- Rice, Adrian
- Riviere-Seel, Pat
- Riviere-Seel, Pat (2)
- Rossetti, Christina
- Rouphail, Maria
- Rouphail, Maria (2)
- Rumi
- Scanlon, Elizabeth
- Seuss, Dianne
- Sherbondy, Maureen
- Silverthorne, Marty
- Silverthorne, Marty (2)
- Smith, Crystal Simone
- Smith-Soto, Mark
- Smith-Soto, Mark (2)
- Snyder, Gary
- Snyder, Gary (2)
- Soniat, Katherine
- Soniat, Katherine (2)
- Sorkin, Larry
- Stafford, William
- Steele, Celisa
- Stephenson, Shelby
- Stephenson, Shelby (2)
- Stephenson, Shelby (3)
- Strahan, Brad
- Su Tung-P'o
- Suk, Julie
- Suk, Julie (2)
- Sullivan, Anne McCrary
- Sullivan, Anne McCrary (2)
- Taylor, Richard Allen
- Taylor, Richard Allen (2)
- Thomas, R. S.
- Trew, Lucinda
- Twiddy, Iain
- VanderHart, Han
- Verwers, Danielle Ann
- Wakefield, Kathleen
- Wakefield, Kathleen (2)
- Walker, Alice
- Walker, Franx X
- Walton, Anthony
- Wheeler, Lesley
- Wickless, Bob
- Widerkehr, Richard
- Wilder, Cheryl
- Williams, William Carlos
- Wilson, Ryan
- Wooten-Hawkins, Anna
- Yeats, William Butler
- York, Carolyn
C - Bill's featured poems
- Albedo
- Bear
- Becoming Something New
- Bloodroot
- Canada Goose, Country Road
- Care
- Crayfish, from SNAKE DEN RIDGE: a BESTIARY
- Currency (Good Friday)
- Good Boy Turns 50
- In the Manger
- Leave & Come Home (1)
- Leave & Come Home (2)
- Leave & Come Home (3)
- Leave & Come Home (4)
- Light
- little mouse (evidence)
- little mouse (garbage)
- little mouse (trace)
- Orange Cap
- Pisgah Stranger
- Raven
- Requiem
- Rule #1 No Hurting
- Salamander
- Sonnet for the Woman Who Fried 10,000 Chickens
- The Birds' Carol
- The Geriatrician Ages
- The Geriatrician Ages – 2020
- The Wanderer's Carols
- Twenty-Three Grays
- We Never Give Up Hoping
- Wilderness Advent – with music
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So good to see that tres like this are numbered; (someone is keeping track of them!).
It’s exciting the way the wind is blowing…north? I’d like to run with it as long as I can, and then
be a passenger.
How high does the tree numbering go? There’s no map that could possibly show what I’d
like to see from ground level.
Back later! This has been the freshest air!
Dave M.
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Dave, thanks for whirling and whistling my mind around. I’ve always known from your poetry that you see the world in a way no one else does.
I’ve counted a good number of all the birds I’ve seen but not the trees! THAT tree, though, I have been photographing for almost 20 years. There is a concrete trail marker up at Doughton Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway (also now part of the Mountains-to-Sea trail). Linda and I walk that trail several times a year, sometimes more than once a month. Every time we pass I set my camera on the trail marker and take a portrait. That particular photo is from 2008. I’ve labeled the more recent ones with their date rather than a number, which was sort of random and related to when I uploaded them to the blog. There’s a portrait at the close of every blog post. And more to come!
Thanks, Friend! Bill
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