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Upcoming Open Mic’s in St. Paul MN

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Music Forest Cafe

151 E seventh St. St. Paul, MN

Exceptional, personal (seats 45), espresso/tea,vegan menu bistro. No liquor. Open work days 7AM-4PM, ends of the week 7AM-2PM and nights during booked exhibitions. You are urged to welcome family/companions to join in. Open-mic classifications: Classical, Folk, Country, Celtic, Indie to Rock. Verse and story readings welcome. No foulness or political discourse please. On location slope stopping, 4.50 hourly – work days, 5.00 level rate – nights and ends of the week. On-road metered stopping – free on Sundays. Travel: transport and LRT stops close by. A big thanks goes out …

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5 Iconic Poems in the English Language

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Today is the commemoration of the distribution of Robert Frost’s notorious sonnet “Halting by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” a reality that prodded the Literary Hub office into a meaningful discussion about their preferred sonnets, the most famous sonnets written in English, and which sonnets we should all have just perused (or if nothing else be perusing straightaway). Turns out, notwithstanding continuous (bogus) claims that verse is dead as well as immaterial or potentially exhausting, there are a lot of sonnets that have sunk profound into our aggregate awareness as social symbols. (What makes a sonnet notorious? For our motivations …

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Language and Culture Presents: Dallas Open Mic

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Melissa and Vincent Cooper

2-4pm

Pre-winter Hayes’ lyrics, papers and short fiction have showed up or are inevitable in African American Review, The Seattle Review, Teachers and Writers Magazine, Southern Women’s Review and the smaller scale fiction compilation 140 and Counting. She holds a MFA in verse from Texas State University, where she is a composition focus right hand executive and a senior speaker.

Vincent Cooper is a writer and previous US Marine living in San Antonio. His productions in collections incorporate Boundless, Refreshing San Antonio, Ban This: An Anthology of Chicano Literaturek, and Big Bridge Magazine: Refreshing San Antonio. …

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Poetic Medley

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un souffle du printemps

tu viens le matin du manteau nocturne
avec la senteur piquante d’arbre à feuilles persistantes et me fais signe
en dehors de ma rosace

tu me mènes au bord de la route
où je respires la douceur qui traverse
jusqu’au présent
je capture tes soupirs
maintenant tu m’appartiens

tu completes le sifflet dans le vent
tu accomplisses la chanson de mon rossignol
par les étendues inhabitées
dans la pause repos après-midi

je ne marcherai jamais seule

quand le soir est fini
l’odeur de ta gypsophile
s’attarde à ma table
murmure à la lueur diminuente
de

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Gabriela del Alma Born in Spanish

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Porque la noche es infinita y resonante
Porque mis manos frías amasan el migajón que
en dedos ardientes se agrieta
Porque la tierra se inclina contra mís pasos
Porque a veces la marea no me inspira
Porque al cerrar mis ojos lo veo todo
Porque despierto cada tarde con una melodía tibia en mi boca
Porque sigo inocente en la trayectoria del meteorito
Porque el sol es tóxico y la lluvia sabe al pasado—
Te busco entre estrellas infantes—
Mas alla de millares de disfraces,
Y te encuentro, como siempre,
En el semillero de mis sueños.		 Because the night is
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Life’s Little Lessons

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Ancestors

I see shadows
whisper to me from the corners of walls,
women’s voices sharing secrets
of ages past.

My ages past
as I am a shadow to them
my ancestors.
I am echo of a pungent past.

The Baby*

A home spun baby I be,
dropped from old yellow
man moon
on a warm winter’s day,
I came in the worldly way.

My breath carries spring time,
my laugh
summer’s ripened fruit,
my hair the falling of the leaves.
I am winter’s child too.

An ordinary baby,
I be,
miracle of worlds.

*Pink Chameleon, Issue 6…

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An Excerpt from: Catching Tigers in Red Weather

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Only, here and there, an old sailor,
Drunk and asleep in his boots,
Catches tigers
In red weather.

Wallace Stevens,
from Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock

O Sweeney, come forth and articulate,
convey the nightingale’s face!  The chill of

a word vocalized, true anodyne.
One syllable moves beneath the teeth.

What brings “what?”- both anointed and coined.
The tongue is a type of illusionist.

We are each understood by the other,
in good silence, or in between.  The noun

is centralized, a bright platinum.
Sentences fly, written by their seasons,

or they wait on the freeway medians
with all of our …

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From Canada to America

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From Canada to America

Crossing the border into America,
We are also entering into the lyrical
Apex of worldly pop-culture,
From neighbouring Canada, in so many ways distant,
To a world full of show-business, water-resistant
Make-up, and pages of old-new pop-literary vultures.

Billboard after billboard announces:
“MacDonald’s”, “Coca-Cola, 24 ounces”…
“Hotel Hyatt” and “Pop-tarts” and more!
No sooner we get past the border
than: “Pizzas — eat in / take-out order”,
In this peace-loving country you can buy “Guns galore”.

On the radio: “Labour-saving devices
Are on sale now at rock-bottom prices!..
And now for some ‘country-pop-rock’…”
Then a cowboy …

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Scholarships

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The award is presented to a graduating senior
from a Tri-Valley High School by June

It annually provides undergraduate support
for a student who intends to prepare for Arts & Science
and who will have completed 2 foreign language courses
within the first year at the enrolled college or university.
Academic merit and recognizable accomplishments
with interest in pursuing languages or linguistics
are considered.

Contact Us for more information…

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