It’s Samuel Clemens’ Birthday!

By Speak on November 30th, 2009
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Today is the anniversary of the birth of the great Samuel Langhorne Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain. In the case that you have not noticed, the infamous humorist, is a character that you can look forward to seeing and hearing more of around here – well his spirit anyway.
So in honor of his birthday, here [...]

Now a published poet…

By Speak on November 22nd, 2009
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Finally, after a year of submitting Haiku poetry to a couple of Journals I am going to be published! Modern Haiku has agreed that one of my haiku is worthy of a bit of ink. My little poem will appear in issue 41.1 (winter-spring 2010). Pretty exciting for me as it took so long to finally happen. According to my friend, poet Hosho McCreesh who encouraged me to send work out for consideration, it is pretty standard for a beginning poet to go a long time before publication so I feel pretty good about this. Today, one little haiku. Tomorrow…