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Poetry Critiques, 2003-2012

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2012

Jan: "Words" by Shirani Rajapakse

Feb: "Katie" by L. Kerr

Mar: "That Great Baseball Summer of 1982" by Isa "Kitty" Mady

Apr: "Life" by Wesley Dale Willis

May: "Tar Sticks to Everything" by Allen Gray

Jun: "After" by Joem D. Phillips

Jul: "Gotham City" by Charles Kasler

Aug: "Three-Petaled Love Ghazal" by Karen Winterburn

Sep: "Cupid" by Jean Wilson and "And Speaking of Strategic Planning" by Lisa Badner

Oct: "Again Guernica" and "Lesson at MOMA" by Lou Barrett

Nov: "Sea Constellations of the Northern Sky Offer No Consolation" by Rich Hoeckh

Dec: Critique Corner Finale - Our Best Advice for Poets


2011

Jan: "3:48am, The Real Reason Sharing a Bed with Your Baby Is Highly Unadvisable; or, Mama's Little Heartbreaker" by Jenny Sanders

Feb: "Jubilate Agno" by Jack Goodman

Mar: "Concerto of Snow" by Ryan Sauers and "Pelagic Zone" by Joan L. Cannon

Apr: "Night of Sky" and "East vs. West" by Changming Yuan

May: "Coal Country" by Christina Lovin

Jun: "Breakfast's Lust" by Amber Davis

Jul: "Meanings" and "A Winter's Night" by Norman William Kearney

Aug: "The Crossing" by Sandy Longley

Sep: "Three Poems" by Tim Young

Oct: "Garden" by Kelechi Aguocha

Nov: "Whispers" by Vea A. Glenn

Dec: A Selection of Fine Poems from the Winning Writers Community: What Makes Them Great


2010

Jan: "Growing Up Once More" by Gargi Saha

Feb: "You Are" by Prasenjit Maiti and "The Second Million Times" by Larry Pontius

Mar: "Flaming Comforter" and "American Charybdis" by Airlie Sattler Rose

Apr: Understanding Modern English-Language Haiku

May: "Sky" by Charlotte Mandel and "Rain Sestina" by Chuck Levenstein

Jun: "No Salvage" by Barb McMakin

Jul: "Fishing" by Hank Rodgers

Aug: "Marry Me" and "Praise for Wyatt" by Bob Bradshaw

Sep: "Kansas" by Ken Martin

Oct: "Brotherly Love" by Ellaraine Lockie and "Stamens and Pistils" by Margaret Sherman

Nov: "Lost" by Maggi Roark

Dec: How To Respond To Criticism of Your Poetry


2009

Jan: "Emulation" by Hann-Shuin Yew

Feb: "Reseau" by Ellyn Scott

Mar: "What Is There?" by Robert J. Frankland

Apr: "Roster Forever" by Ryan K. Sauers

May: "Songs and Metaphors" by Akpoteheri Godfrey Amromare

Jun: "Pouring Shade" by Hzal

Jul: "Lantana Camara, Spreading Sunset" by Delia Corrigan

Aug: "And While the Beast Was on the Prowl" by Ned Condini

Sep: Untitled ("mother's now...") by Hugh Hodge

Oct: "Note to Van Helsing" by Brian Donaghy

Nov: "Design" by Janet Butler

Dec: "On Battery Hill" by Niki Nymark


2008

Jan: "Entropy Road" by Thom Adams

Feb: "The Fox Woman" by Liz Davies

Mar: "Flood Sacrifice" by Janice Lamberg

Apr: "The Mirror" by Neville Klaric

May: "Plodding Though His Own Death" by Emmanuel Samson

Jun: "It's Not About Sharks" by Renee Palmer

Jul: "On My Father's Dashed Hopes of Returning to Normandy Fifty Years Later" by Michael P. Riley

Aug: "Whisper Without Words" by Akpoteheri Godfrey Amromare

Sep: "The Trees Stand Watch" by S.E. Ingraham

Oct: "Riddle" by Alegria Imperial

Nov: "Note to Self III" by A.J.R. Hewitt

Dec: "In Break Formation" by Donal Mahoney


2007

Jan: "From the Album" by Hank Rodgers

Feb: "The Telepathic Bruise" by Belinda Smith

Mar: "Corpus Christi" by William "Wild Bill" Taylor

Apr: "Bruno Was From Brazil: A Prose Poem" by Judy Juanita

May: "Stillborn" by Obed Dolo

Jun: "The Garden" by Joleen Leo

Jul: "The Wild" by Tabitha Wood

Aug: "Kari" by Kim Mayhall

Sep: "Silence" by Jessica Keeslar

Oct: "Unbroken Awareness" by Tendai R. Mwanaka

Nov: "Call Out of Exile" by Karen Winterburn

Dec: "Anne Boleyn" by Babs Halton


2006

Jan: "Anthem for the Official Rhode Island State Shellfish" by Matthew Farrell

Feb: "No RSVP" by Ron Dean

Mar: "Persistent Armageddon" by Charlet C. Estes

Apr: "People Like Me" by J. Malcolm Browne

May: "Geoffrey and Margot, After the Breakup" by Gene Dixon

Jun: "A Day in the War" by Mike Scheidemann

Jul: "The Sport of Kings" by Barclay Franklin

Aug: "Ground Zero" by Shaun Hull

Sep: "The Clash of Life" by John R. Sabine

Oct: "Cold Turkey" by Susan Tearoe

Nov: "The Popsicle Planet" by Katherine Fleissner

Dec: "Light as Magic" by Alegria Imperial


2005

Jan: "New World" by Martin Steele

Feb: Wergle Flomp Entries by B.F. Texino, Rebecca Sutton and "Chick L Scott"

Mar: Wergle Flomp Entries by Anthony McMillan, Maria St. Clair and Mark Stevick

Apr: "Inspired by Starlight" by Dana Bailey

May: "South of Presidio" by Ron Wertheim

Jun: "Trapped in New Mexico" by Lana Loga

Jul: A Dialogue Between Jendi Reiter and Bruce Wilkerson

Aug: "At First Light" by John Alexanderson

Sep: "Under the Arbor" by J.T. Milford

Oct: "Fire Sale" by William J. Duvall

Nov: "Zoonotic" by Walter Bargen

Dec: "The Third Millennium" by Joan Blake


2004

Jan: "Vietnamese Reds" by S.K. Duff

Feb: "Letter from Dhahran" by Heather McGehee

Mar: "Shark Bait" by Ellia Bisker

Apr: "Three Declarations" by Beth Partin

May: "Whiteout" by Laura Van Prooyen

Jun: "Bluebeard's Closet" by Monica Jenny Sharma

Jul: No critique

Aug: "Saving Grace" by Laurie J. Ward

Sep: "It Wasn't Poetry" by Lisa Suhair Majaj

Oct: "The Unraveling" by Lou Barrett

Nov: "Dusty Pearl" by Ellen Morgan

Dec: "Antarctica" by Freddy Fonseca


2003

Aug: "Little Demi-God" by Natasha Sutherland

Sep: "Set Free" by Barry Goode

Oct: "Crows" by Becky Dennison Sakellariou

Nov: "Blackened" by Laurie J. Ward

Dec: "Guiding Light" by Sherry Eubank


                                                                                                                                                                                                                               




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