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  "Beauty is not caused.  It is." ~ Emily Dickinson

Poems  from  the  Hoot

Lesley Kimball, PPLP co-chairperson, welcomes another full house to the Poetry Hoot on Feb. 6, 2008. Poetry Hoots are held the first Wednesday of the month from September to June at Cafe Espresso in Portsmouth.

 

Dear Readers,

These are selections from the monthly poetry series, "Poems from the Hoot."

We (PPLP board members Lesley Kimball and Harvey Shepard and Poet Laureate Elizabeth Knies) will be selecting from poems read at the monthly Poetry Hoot night for publication in this space — and adding a few thoughts of our own.

These articles are taken from Spotlight Magazine, published every Thursday in the Portsmouth Herald.

To have your work considered for review, the poem must be read at The Poetry Hoot and submitted to us ~ Please limit your piece to a maximum of 19 lines/15 words per line.

Keep writing - one and all,
    Harvey, Lesley and Elizabeth

         
Read Poems and Reflections:

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Floodgates — by Jack Jamison

Niche — by Bob Moore

The Moon Came — by Cleone T. Graham

Grandpa Jim — by Nancy Dnovan

January — by Helena Minton

The Beach — by Hugh Harter

September 10, 2007 — by Neil English

Teaching Mother to Swim — by Nancy Jean Hill

Open — by Christopher Locke

Beach Walk — by Anne Dewees

Expansion — by Ashley Davis Prend

Tango With Me — by Lucy Therrien

Losses — by Nancy Donovan

Figure in Front of a Mantel — by Jane Vacante

For Grace, My Granite Girl — by Tammi Truax

Musings at the new year — by Fred Samuels

Be the Dog — by Jane Eslinger

Berkeley's Trees — by Lindsay Rigg Brown

Silent Siren — by Meghan Harford

Trouble with the Moon — by Bill Burtis

Temptress - by Midge Goldberg

White Morning - by Cleopatra Mathis

On a Friday Evening - by Carrie Reed

The Little Boy - by Hugh Harter

The Secrets of Wine - by Matthew Gallant

Kitchen Remodeling - by Robert Crawford

The Core of the Navel Crux - by Maggie Kemp

Geography Master - by Gerald Duffy

Swim on a Star -  by Hugh Hennedy


Tell me what I don't know for sure - by Rhonda Palmer

Formica Makes a Passive Witness - by Todd Abernathy

Interior - by Margaret Morrill


August - by Mark DeCarteret

Author's Prayer - by Ilya Kaminsky

The Lilac Thief - by Young Dawkins

Down to This: A Song about the Rain - by Kathi Hennessy
 

 

All are invited to attend The Poetry Hoot, held on the first Wednesday of each month at 7p.m. at Café Espresso in Plaza 800 on Islington Street. Get Directions.