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I’m a semi-finalist (along with about 1,000 other people) in a travel writing contest (a screenshot of my entry is pictured above). If I win the grand prize, I get $10,000 and a writing gig. The assignment? Writing 30 stories about the five boroughs of New York. I love the idea of getting to know my new city through writing, …
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My friend Letty works in Del Ray. The other day she was taking a walk around the ‘hood when she stumbled on this “poetry fence”:
The note at the top reads,
“If I can keep squirrels from raiding paper and push-pins from here for their nests, you’ll see poems here …
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“I write poetry
because I suffer confusion
not knowing
what other people think.”
- Allen Ginsberg
(On a lighter note: While we’re quoting beat poets – see also this hilarious video from The Tonight Show, in which William Shatner performs Sarah Palin’s farewell speech as a beat poem. When news and art collide…)
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