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Playing Enough Break?

totallydrivengolf wrote 3 days ago: There have been countless articles written regarding golfers not playing enough break on their putts … more →

Tags: Totally Driven, Aimpoint Technology, aimpoint, Mark Sweeney, Stan Utley, David Edel, Bobby Dean, Green Reading, Geoff Mangum

If Your Landlord Starts Trying To Give You 'Employment Advice'....You Know Why!

norfolknonaligned wrote 2 weeks ago: Communities secretary John Denham has called on social landlords to fight worklessness among their t … more →

Tags: housing, Employment, John Denham, Working Neighbourhood Fund, National Housing Federation

Solutions Launch Announcement

usseeorg wrote 2 weeks ago: I would like to introduce you to Solutions, an online and print publication devoted exclusively to s … more →

Tags: USSEE, John Todd, Paul Hawken, Robert Contanza, Solutions, Solutions Journal, Solutions Magazine

Devotion to the creation of the TAO Metaversity

taometaversity wrote 2 weeks ago: Greetings, The letter below has taken my breath away. This letter is from Shelly Lee Williams … more →

Tags: Giving and Receiving, Metaversity Salt Lake City, Organic gardens, marketing videos, blog building, Scien, Overall Feeling of the TAO Metaversity, university of utah, cam williams, celebratory dance, Kayenta Utah, Living by faith

A Controlled Refinement of Sobbing1 comment

Deborah Barlow wrote 2 months ago: Nicholas Baker’s writing ranges between forceful and compelling tirades (like his exposure of … more →

Tags: Poetry, writing, Nicholas Baker, Tears, Writers

SOCIAL HOUSING AT BREAKFAST

maryhoneyballmep wrote 6 months ago: Yesterday I spoke at a hustings meeting organised early in the morning (8.00 – 10.00) by the N … more →

Tags: Labour Party, European Parliament, european elections, National Housing Federation, European Liaison Committee for Social Housing, Stuart MacDonald, Inside Housing

Robert Frost's "The Pasture"2 comments

upinvermont wrote 6 months ago: July 18, 2009: New Post – Robert Frost’s “Out, Out” June 6 2009: Tweaked and … more →

Tags: About Colloquialism in Poetry, Anthimeria, Iambic Pentameter, Iambic Tetrameter, Internal Rhyme, rhyme, Robert Frost, anthimeria, Best Poetry Blog

The Intervention

gabtor wrote 7 months ago: On September 17th 2002, eight people gathered in an isolated house just North of Los Angeles, to int … more →

Tags: Movie, The Intervention, Cody McMains, Cynthia Gates Fujikawa, Laurie Prange, patricia place, Raymond O'Connor

Drop the Tray! (Trayless Dining: A Green Strategy for Lean Times)4 comments

johnsonri wrote 7 months ago: In this turbulent economy, I don’t think I can name a single college or university that is not cutti … more →

Tags: sustainability, curriculum, Education, Energy, Food, Student Life, trayless dining, Waste reduction, water

The Headwaters Gathering

stevendavidjohnson wrote 8 months ago: The Headwaters Gathering: Southern Appalachia at the Crossroads March 27-28 The Warriors of AniKituh … more →

Tags: Andrew Revkin, Bill Meadows, Blacksmith, Chip Blake, Environment, headwaters gathering, Janisse Ray, Larry Schweiger, Majora Carter

Some Thoughts on Great Poetry15 comments

hudowen wrote 8 months ago: In the February 22, 2009 New York Times, poet David Orr wrote a long and thoughtful essay titled “Th … more →

Tags: Writings, The Greatness Game, GREAT POETRY

(G)reatness): Orr and his Respondents

upinvermont wrote 8 months ago: It’s been about two and a half weeks since Orr’s article appeared. The implicit question … more →

Tags: Opinion, great poet, Collin Kelly, HG Poetics, Digital Emunction, clusterflock, Zachariah Wells, HTMLGIANT, amy king

Walt Whitman in White Snow1 comment

amyking wrote 9 months ago: Currently tucked into the driven snow on the eastern side of Long Island reading “The Road Was … more →

Tags: sexy, Poetry, Long Island, New York, Poetics, Sandra Beasley, Adam Fieled, Reb Livingston, greatness

IMHO: (G)reatness & the Language of Poetry2 comments

upinvermont wrote 9 months ago: On Being Memorable I’ve been scouring the net for other response’s to Orr’s New Yo … more →

Tags: Opinion, Meter, rhyme, Mary Oliver, great poet, A.R. Ammons, Wallace Stevens, Poetry and Greatness, Style

Our Pale Blue Dot

thecosmosreader wrote 9 months ago: Looking to our immediate solar system, we have been granted with a planet that has evolved quicker t … more →

Tags: Biology, Cosmology, Earth, Ecology, Education, anthropocentrism, Environment, Humanity, Philosophy

On Greatness6 comments

Adam Penna wrote 9 months ago: There seems to be an anxiety felt by the Baby Boomer generation that the world, when they have gone, … more →

Tags: Poetry, Emerson, Baby Boomers, greatness, obama, NY Times

Hey, David Orr!7 comments

upinvermont wrote 9 months ago: From the time that I was a child, I have wanted to do something spectacular. When I was in grade sch … more →

Tags: Patrick Gillespie, Opinion, Poetry Magazine, great poet, Donald Hall, Poetry and Ambition, Best Poetry Blog, Better Poetry Blog, Good Poetry Blog

On Poetry, On Greatness28 comments

Barbara Jane Reyes wrote 9 months ago: Indeed I too am interested in why so few poets seem to be taking on responding to this article in th … more →

Tags: Poetry, Poetic Industrial Complex, Donald Hall, Poetry and Ambition

The Great(ness) Game

dpoetry wrote 9 months ago: Perhaps you have read David Orr’s recent essay in the New York Times Review of Books.  It is c … more →

Tags: Poetry, Poem, Poet, greatness


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