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1000 Tweets Contest Winner

J.S. Graustein — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:32:14 +0000

We are thrilled to announce that the winning poem from our 1000 Tweets Contest is “When Her Father Died” by DannyPoet.

Many thanks to our Poetry Editor, Rose Auslander for running the contest. Heaps of additional thanks go to our judge, Matthew Lippman.

We hope you have enjoyed this poetic event. We certainly have:-)

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Upcoming Announcement

Rose Auslander — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:42:20 +0000

The winner of the unFold 1000 Tweets Contest will be announced this week. Stay tuned!

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Congratulations to our Finalists

Rose Auslander — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:48:58 +0000

Huge congratulations to the ten finalists in our 1000 Tweets Contest, listed below in the order in which their poems appeared on the unFold blog:

Nathalie Boisard-Beudin, “Bridge”
Dorothee Lang, untitled
Peg Duthie, untitled
Bud Smith, “Pale Blue Eyes”
Debbie Feller, “Essentially Bare”
Howie Good, “Night in the Country”
Julie Corbett, untitled
Elizabeth Lara, “The Amazing Box of Used-To-Be”
Ivo Drury, “Decades”
DannyPoet, “Where her father died”

We hope you have enjoyed reading these poems on our blog. This week, the winning poem selected by Matthew Lippman will be announded and posted on the unFold Twitter stream. Stay tuned!

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When her father died

Rose Auslander — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:00:26 +0000

She moved the rocks in our garden
shuttling back and forth
letting the hauled stones
pull her hands
to the ground

Also visit DannyPoet at http://www.DannyPoet.com

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Decades

Rose Auslander — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:00:29 +0000

Sixties next
Father’s last
Still hoping
to shake
his shadow.

Ivo Drury workshops words in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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The Amazing Box of Used-to-Be

Rose Auslander — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:00:08 +0000

Thick-soled hiking boots
Bikini from Bahamas
Madame Bovary, half read
Bali Lace Desire
underwire

Elizabeth Lara is a member of the Hot Poets Collective in New York — also visit her poems in Dark Matter and damselfly press.

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Untitled

Rose Auslander — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:00:01 +0000

inside out blink/birth/this shape familiar/no sonar sounds/lights/action/soundtrack voices/taste and taste and suck and suck/outside in blink

Also view Julie Corbett’s work at The Poetry Society http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/membership/stanzas/competition/2012/#Corbet.

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Night in the Country

Rose Auslander — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:00:16 +0000

There were
no sirens,

only more stars
than I ever remember
there being,

like a whole sky
of heretics on fire.

Also read Howie Good’s new poetry book, Dreaming in Red, from Right Hand Pointing — all proceeds from the book go to charity: https://sites.google.com/site/rhplanding/howie-good-dreaming-in-red

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Essentially Bare

Rose Auslander — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:00:54 +0000

Shaking off
his color
of the truth.

Also visit Debbie Feller at http://iftodaywehear.wordpress.com.

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Pale Blue Eyes

Rose Auslander — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:00:39 +0000

Being mortal means lots of duty dances with death
and sometimes dances with pretty girls in the low light of perfect jukeboxes.

Also visit Bud Smith at http://www.budsmithwrites.com.

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