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Poem: "You Thought I Was That Type" by Anna Akhmatova

Wonderful new video for dear Luciole friend/contributor Ellyn Maybe's track "City Streets" from Rodeo for the Sheepish!

Congrats to dear Luciole friend/contributor S.A. Griffin! Article in The Guardian: "For this poet, bombing at a reading won't be bad"

Happy Birthday to Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg! Also his poem: "what I don't know now that i got through another year"

Luciole Press is on hiatus until the next issue, to be published May 1 (important to read this)

A worthy cause!! S.A. Griffin, creator of The Poetry Bomb, has posted an appeal for his project

Poem: "Rambling rivers...for S.A.Griffin,Lorraine,Spencer" by Scott Wannberg

Never-before seen photos of Marilyn Monroe with poet Carl Sandburg go up for sale (shot by Len Steckler)

From Luciole friend/contributor Ellyn Maybe: her CD "Rodeo for the Sheepish" is on a Top 10 list at KALX Berkeley

I am going on vacation; I have set up updates for the blog so there will be something new each day. Check out the new Winter 2010 Issue of Luciole!

Celebrate the new year early with the newly published Winter 2010 Issue of Luciole Press! Here is the Table of Contents

Poems from Luciole Press Autumn Issue 2009 -- Kumari de Silva

Poem: "The More Loving One" by W. H. Auden

Poem: "The Healers" by Laurence Binyon

Brought to my attention by Lena, new book! "Quills of Fire" by Marilyn Campiz and Lena Vanelslander

Quote from Luciole friend/contributor Ellyn Maybe (I posted it on LP's facebook page awhile ago)

Two poems by Margaret Atwood: "The Moment" and "Night Poem"

From Luciole friend/contributor Geraldine Green: ~ Poetry In Aid of Cumbria Flood Recovery ~

Poem: "This Side Of The Truth" by Dylan Thomas

Rare copy of Poe's first book "Tamerlane and Other Poems" sells for $662,500 in NYC

Poem: "An Autumn Evening" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

From Luciole contributor/friend S.A. Griffin: Submit to The Poetry Bomb!!

From Amanda Oaks: "words dance is open for submissions!"

Poem: "On Living" by Nazim Hikmet

Poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "my so called thanksgiving riff for 2009"

Quote and poem from Hafiz ("The Tulip")

Poem: "In A Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke

Luciole friends and contributors Ellyn Maybe and S.A. Griffin reading at Beyond Baroque this Sunday with Yama Lake -- tribute to artist Mark Cheka

Poem: "i carry your heart with me" by E. E. Cummings

Poem: "Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath

Exene Cervenka's In-Store Free Show @ Amoeba Music Hollywood

Poem: "An Autumn Sunset" by Edith Wharton

Poem: "Go Plant a Tree" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Listen to Luciole friend and contributor Aine MacAodha on a radio show -- Red Writers Live

Luciole Press is now on LinkedIn, if you want to drop us a line and "connect"

Luciole contributor and friend Aine MacAodha will be interviewed and read her poetry on a radio show this Thursday!

Walter Skold, founder of the Dead Poets Society of America, just finished a three-month road trip in which he visited the graves of 150 poets in 23 states

Luciole friends and contributors David Smith and Scott Wannberg hitting the road for the last time in 2009. Three event dates in NYC. Three dates in Ohio.

October 2009 issue of Pirene's Fountain now available! Note from Luciole friend and contributor Ami Kaye

Luciole contributor Scott Owens and Poetry Hickory (North Carolina) have a new website

Poem by 15-year-old poet from Norway, Svanhild Amdal Telnes

Poem excerpt: Sylvia Plath - "The Disquieting Muses" (fireflies mentioned)

Poem: "By Candlelight" by Sylvia Plath

Luciole's Scott Wannberg and David Smith will have readings in NYC and Ohio. Scott's note: "scott and david's excellent new york adventures....coming soon!!!!"

Poem: "Fireflies in the Garden" by Robert Frost

Luciole friend and contributor Ellyn Maybe was featured on Henry Rollins' radio show on 10/17. Thanks for the link, Ellyn! :)

Poem: "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats

Luciole contributor Kumari de Silva will be reading at the Groundbreaking Ceremony for Kern County Library’s new New Frazier Park Branch on November 7th

Quote from Anne Sexton

Posting for Luciole's Puma Perl: Reading this November 5th, featuring many fine writers, including Luciole's David Smith, Scott Wannberg, and Puma in NYC

Another posted reminder: If you are in Los Angeles, please see Luciole friends David Smith, Ellyn Maybe, S.A. Griffin, and Scott Wannberg at Beyond Baroque today!

Luciole Press contributor Ellyn Maybe has a new poetry/music CD: Rodeo for the Sheepish. Congrats Ellyn :)

Video: "The Lark Ascending" -- composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Inspired by a poem by the English poet George Meredith (1828-1909)

Wish I could be there David, Scott and S.A.! Reminder, their reading (and book signing for David and Scott) will be today, Oct. 10th, at Skylight Books

Poem: "The Man's Last Wish" by Anna Maria Lenngren (1754-1817) -- Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salonist

Happy National Poetry Day in the UK! Received this in my inbox from the Poetry Society

REMINDER! Message from David Smith. Catch David, Scott Wannberg, and S.A. Griffin on the 10th at Skylight Books, and all 3 w/Ellyn Maybe at Beyond Baroque on Oct. 11th

Happy second birthday to Luciole Press! Thank you so much to everyone. Here are some lovely b-day tributes from Scott Wannberg, David Smith, and S.A. Griffin

Congratulations to Luciole contributor Gill O'Halloran for her fine new book, "This Seven Year Old Walks into a Bar"

Poem: "Nothing Stays Put" by Amy Clampitt

Sent in by Amanda Oaks: Verve Bath Press SALE!

Luciole Press contributor Puma Perl will be on the Joe Milford Poetry Show on October 18th

Congrats to Luciole friend and contributor S.A. Griffin, whose work is in the new anthology: "Mezcla: Art & Writing from the Tumblewords Project." He has an extensive reading schedule -- catch him live!

Luciole friends and contributors in a 2-day extravaganza of reading glory: David Smith and Scott Wannberg Oct. 10th at Skylight Books, and David, Scott, Ellyn Maybe and S.A. Griffin at Beyond Baroque on Oct. 11 (Los Angeles)

Press Release: Luciole's Dena Rash Guzman will be reading with Sister Spit this Sunday, October 4th, in Las Vegas. Rock on, Dena! ;)

Quotes from John Muir

Poem: "By The Arno" (Oscar Wilde)

Art: Alphonse Mucha's "Autumn" (plus a link to the Autumn Issue of Luciole Press)

Poem: "A Proud Lady" by Elinor Wylie, contemporary of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poem: "Young" by Anne Sexton

Poem: "Places and Men" by William Allingham, a colleague of Rossetti, Millais, Tennyson, and more

Poem: "Machine" by Michael Donaghy

Just received David Smith's wonderful new book -- White Time -- for which I happily wrote a blurb. Available at Off Beat Pulp

Poem: Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "Memento"

Poem: "Otherwise" by Jane Kenyon

Another poem by Jane Kenyon: "Happiness"

From Scott Wannberg, poet and Luciole Press contributor: he will have two readings in Los Angeles - on October 10 at Skylight Books, and October 11th with Ellyn Maybe at Beyond Baroque

Poem: "Let Evening Come" by Jane Kenyon

Poem by Hilda Doolittle (who was engaged briefly to Ezra Pound): "Evadne"

Another poem by Julie Hill Alger, "Opening the Geode"

A fantastic poem from Julie Hill Alger: "Lesson 1"

Poem: Julie Hill Alger, "Pictures of Home"

Follow-up to previous post: How to get a signed copy of Scott Wannberg's new book, strange movie full of death

Sorry for the delay in posting this; Scott Wannberg's new book -- strange movie full of death -- is now available for purchase at Perceval Press!

Message from Luciole Press Editor/Publisher Karen

Poem: John Masefield, "A Ballad of John Silver"

Poem: Anne Sexton, "Admonitions To A Special Person"

Poem: Willa Cather's "The Hawthorn Tree"

Wadsworth Church built on faith, freedom, poetry

Article on previously featured and much loved poet Mary Oliver: "The Land and Words of Mary Oliver, the Bard of Provincetown"

Two poems by New England poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925): "The Giver of Stars" and "At Night"

So sorry to be behind in posting this info: One more day of The Riverwood Poetry Festival! Includes Luciole Press friends/contributors S.A. Griffin, Scott Wannberg and David Smith!

Another poem from previously featured poet Nizar Qabbani: "Love Compared"

Poem: Louise Glück, "The Wild Iris"

I have just received the new chap from Rose of Sharon Press (publisher S.A. Griffin): "Let Everybody Come In" by Scott Wannberg. I love it very much!

Fantastic news from Luciole Press friends and contributors S.A. Griffin and Scott Wannberg! Just published -- "New chap: Let Everybody Come In by Scott Wannberg!"

Luciole Press friend and contributer Geraldine Green will be at the 2009 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival Woodyfest Poets in Okemah, OK, on July 11th

Photo: NASA image of the Pleiades star cluster

Graphic by Mark Hartenbach of S.A. Griffin. Read contributor/friend S.A.'s essay on his page at Luciole Press

Another poem from Delmira Agustini: "El Poeta Leva el Ancla/Weighing the Anchor"