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• How Are You Doing? by Rick Snyder: American Life in Poetry #103 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  One of the ways a poet makes art from his or her experience is through the use of unique, specific and particular detail.
• Morel Mushrooms by Jane Whitledge: American Life in Poetry #102 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Those of us who have hunted morel mushrooms in the early spring have hunted indeed!
• Minor updates by Kevin
  User images for short replies in forums are now only shown for their first post - after that will hide the image, resulting in a much more compact view.
  
  Also, the link on the 'x commented on your topic' notes, actually send you to the right page of a multi-page forum, and open the reply box for that comment.
• Wax Lips by Cynthia Rylant: American Life in Poetry #101 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Those big cherry flavored wax lips that my friends and I used to buy when I was a boy, well, how could I resist this poem by Cynthia Rylant of Oregon?
• The One I Think of Now by Wesley McNair: American Life in Poetry #100 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Here the Maine poet, Wesley McNair, offers us a vivid description of a man who has lived beyond himself.
• New Water by Sharon Chmielarz: American Life in Poetry #99 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  My maternal grandparents got their drinking water from a well in the yard, and my disabled uncle carried it sloshing to the house, one bucket of hard red water early every morning.
• Kissing a Horse by Robert Wrigley: American Life in Poetry #98 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  A horse's head is big, and the closer you get to it, the bigger it gets.
• Somebody Else's Baby by Mary Jo Salter: American Life in Poetry #97 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Though parents know that their children will grow up and away from them, will love and be loved by others, it's a difficult thing to accept.
• For Weeks After the Funeral by Andrea Hollander Budy: American Life in Poetry #96 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Grief can endure a long, long time.
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  A Writer You Should Know About: Louise Bogan by Night Hope
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• Young Man by John Haines: American Life in Poetry #95 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Literature, and in this instance, poetry, holds a mirror to life; thus the great themes of life become the great themes of poems.
• Updates - Chatterbox & customize new poems list by Kevin
  You'll notice a 'customize' link next to your 'new poems by friends' list on the front page. Click it to choose which of your friends you'd like to have included. There's also a 'fast' link in the chatterbox - click it to make it 'live', so you'll see updates as they're made.
• Silent Music by Floyd Skloot: American Life in Poetry #94 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  While many of the poems we feature in this column are written in open forms, that's not to say I don't respect good writing done in traditional meter and rhyme.
• Common Janthina by Tatiana Ziglar: American Life in Poetry #93 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Newborns begin life as natural poets, loving the sound of their own gurgles and coos.
• Home Fire by Linda Parsons Marion: American Life in Poetry #92 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Home is where the heart.
• Simplifying friends vs. Favorites by Kevin
  I'm planning to remove the 'friends' stuff and just go back to 'favorites'.
• Driving Through by Mark Vinz: American Life in Poetry #91 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  How many of us, when passing through some small town, have felt that it seemed familiar though we've never been there before.
• Notification System Updates by Kevin
  More tweaks to the notification system. Briefly: default no longer emails @ new friend adding a poem, option to stop favorites from being emailed when you post, joint settings across sites.
• Bread Soup: An Old Icelandic Recipe by Bill Holm: American Life in Poetry #90 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Anyone can write a poem that nobody can understand, but poetry is a means of communication, and this column specializes in poems that communicate.
• Member of the Month Nov. 09 by All Poetry Activity Leaders, from JustSimplyLissa
  Come see who the Member of the Month is!
• No Children, No Pets by Sue Ellen Thompson: American Life in Poetry #89 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Loss can defeat us or serve as the impetus for positive change.
• My Father Holds the Door for Yoko Ono by Christopher Chambers: American Life in Poetry #88 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  This wistful poem shows how the familiar and the odd, the real and imaginary, exist side by side.
• Raking by Tania Rochelle: American Life in Poetry #87 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  The first poem we ran in this column was by David Allan Evans of South Dakota, about a couple washing windows together.
• The Birds by Linda Pastan: American Life in Poetry #86 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Linda Pastan, who lives in Maryland, is a master of the kind of water-clear writing that enables us to see into the depths.
• In November by Lisel Mueller: American Life in Poetry #85 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  The Illinois poet, Lisel Mueller, is one of our country's finest writers, and the following lines, with their grace and humility, are representative of her poems of quiet celebration.
• Notification system live, and other fixes by Kevin
  The email notification system I mentioned in my last post is now live. Some of you will be irritated by the email you suddenly get, but hopefully some of you also find it useful. It's designed to be easy to disable - there's a link in 'my account' for notification preferences.
  
  There's also been many bug-fixes, and some behind the scene upgrades which caused some random error messages over the last few days (but are now fixed). Go-poetry!
  
• Amaryllis by Connie Wanek: American Life in Poetry #84 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Many of this column's readers have watched an amaryllis emerge from its hard bulb to flower.
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  Some Questions for Critical Comments by thelordreigns
  Here are some questions to ask yourself when critiquing poems.
• Green Tea by Dale Ritterbusch: American Life in Poetry #83 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Poems of simple pleasure, poems of quiet celebration, well, they aren't anything like those poems we were asked to wrestle with in high school, our teachers insisting that we get a headlock on THE MEANING.
• Clean by Jeff Vande Zande: American Life in Poetry #82 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, from Ted-Kooser
  Many poems celebrate the joys of having children.

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