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		<title>How to Overcome the Fear of Reading Poetry to an Audience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Larry Fike (eHow)
You&#8217;ve written some poetry, and now you want to take that next step &#8211; which is sometimes very scary. But reading your poetry in public can also be exhilarating and liberating once you overcome your fears. This activity can also make you aware of the joys of stage performance in general. Who knows? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksandpoetry.wordpress.com&blog=3854203&post=689&subd=booksandpoetry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Words Of Comfort &#8212; Immerse in a Collection of Poetry to Soothe the Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life, with its daily load of pressures and disappointments, can prove to be stressful for many people. It is time to sit back, relax, and soothe the mind and body. Readers will be delighted to know that they can do just that with Pamela Kay Norwood&#8217;s Sweet Inspirations For The Soul, a collection of uplifting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksandpoetry.wordpress.com&blog=3854203&post=680&subd=booksandpoetry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Read Between The Poetic Lines &#8212; A Riveting Poetry Anthology That Compels the Mind to Think</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Still waters run deep&#8221;-or so the proverb says. Poet Rivuli, however, believes it is shallow waters, which run deep. Readers can find out why as they immerse in The Works &#8211; Shallow Waters, a poetry anthology that will provoke thought and linger in their minds long after they have read it.
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		<title>Amazing poet offers spellbinding work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Lynne Cohen (Jewish Tribune)
In his second book of poetry, Judean Dreams, published this year by the Calgary-based Bayeux Arts Inc. (148 pages), Ottawa-born Brandon Marlon pours out his bleeding heart again. The 29-year-old full-time, award-winning playwright and poet has an unstoppable, panoramic, sentimental vision of Israel, Jewish history, Jewish mysticism, redemption, G-d and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksandpoetry.wordpress.com&blog=3854203&post=672&subd=booksandpoetry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New book is An Anthology That Defines Life&#8217;s Dramas and Rewards</title>
		<link>http://booksandpoetry.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/new-book-is-an-anthology-that-defines-lifes-dramas-and-rewards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author V.M. Fry treats poetry lovers and art aficionados as she unveils a parade of artistry in a poetry anthology. Released through Xlibris, Basking Sharks presents a highly moving collection of vibrant and rich poems and artistic illustrations.
In lyrical verse that displays vast emotional strength, Fry paints a vivid picture of the many faces of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksandpoetry.wordpress.com&blog=3854203&post=651&subd=booksandpoetry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Autobiography in Poetry That Echoes the Inner Life, the Soul of the Poet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a poet whose passion in life, love, and everything else is overflowing, comes another anthology of thoughtful, honest, and emotive poems that will take readers on an engaging lyrical journey. Poet-author Enriqueta Cartagena Mayuga, M.D. shares her thoughts, sentiments, and musings in her fourth book of poetry, Splintered Dreams, Blades of Truth, Shafts of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksandpoetry.wordpress.com&blog=3854203&post=646&subd=booksandpoetry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Find Inspiration in Life Through My Many Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine having eleven children, forty-two grandchildren, and sixty great grandchildren with two more on the way. It may seem like more than a handful, but author Mary Lou Nance Ivey wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way. She invites readers on a poetic journey of her life as she reveals My Many Years.
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		<title>Poems of Love in Ocean Mist and Wildflower</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the calm that the ocean brings, love conveys a sense of tranquil joy to many people and so much emotion to one&#8217;s soul. Taste freedom, happiness, hurt, and ecstasy in a compilation of touching poems created with the power of love in mind, Ocean Mist and Wildflower.
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		<title>Passion and Romance Course Through</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The enduring quest for love is the force behind many a young man&#8217;s passion. The excitement of its pursuit, the bliss of its event, and the agony of its loss drives the burning desire behind poet Bryan Krueger&#8217;s stirring collection of literary masterpieces about love and its many companies in Inside The Veins.
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		<title>Poetry of a Distressed Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poet G. Larry Butler has the uncanny ability to depart from the common thread of poetry and adhere to the peculiar dictates of his heart and mind. Having studied the intricacies of the human psyche, he creatively feigns the seemingly inimitable troubled mind to bring us his anthology of brilliant poems, Here Lies Madness.
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