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<a name="feature"> July's Featured Poetry by PPages Poets </a> This month, instead of a single featured PPages Poet, I'm featuring several poems by a group of poets. I have posted the link to the original poem so that you might leave your comments for the poet. Ninian How It Rings by AlluraD In ever...

<a name="shel"> Shel Silverstein </a> <img border="0" align="left" src="http://www.poets.org/images/authors/ssilvers.jpg" alt="Shel Silverstein">Shel's first collection of poems and drawings, Where the Sidewalk Ends appeared in 1974. It opens with this invitation: If you are a dreamer come in, If yo...

<a name="#eltinae"><center> k.eltinaé featured poet for the month of june 2006 </center></a> This month, I'm featuring a poet who hasn't had a lot of recognition on the ppages, k.eltinaé. Hailing from the Sudan, his poetry is rich in metaphor, he saturates each moment with meaning and drama. His poe...

<a name="motion"> Andrew Motion </a> <img border="0" align="left" src="http://www.rlnimages.com/archive/andrew-motion-bench_sm2.jpg" alt="Andrew Motion">Andrew Motion was born in 1952. He read English at University College, Oxford and subsequently spent two years writing about the poetry of Edward T...

<a name="lane"> Patrick Lane </a> <img border="0" align="left" src="http://www.patricklane.ca/images/PLa.jpg" alt="Patrick Lane">Patrick Lane was born in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada, on March 26, 1939. He has no formal education beyond high school in Vernon, B.C. From 1957 to 1968 with his youn...

<a name="crozier"> Lorna Crozier </a> <img border="0" align="left" src="http://www.lornacrozier.ca/Images/photos/crozier_cu_bw.jpg" alt="Lorna Crozier"> Lorna Crozier was born in 1948 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. As a child growing up in a prairie community where the local heroes were hockey play...

<a name="lee"> Dennis Lee </a> Photo credit: Susan Perly <img border="0" align="left" src="http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/lee/poet1.jpg" alt="Dennis Lee"> Canadian poet Dennis Lee was born on August 31, 1939 in Toronto. He is the critically acclaimed author of many books of poetry for both...

<a name="allurad"><center> AlluraD featured poet for the month of may 2006 </center></a> This month I'd like to direct your attention to one of the quieter poets to grace these pages. AlluraD slips in silently and leaves poetic gems for us to find in many categories. She has a strong contemporary vo...

<a name="wallace"> Bronwen Wallace </a> <img border="0" align="left" src="http://www.rlnimages.com/bwallace1b.jpg" alt="Bronwen Wallace" width="140" height="180"> Brownwen Wallace was born in 1945 in Kingston, Ontario. She earned both her BA and her MA at Queen’s University in the 1960s. Upon gradua...

<a name="olds"> Sharon Olds </a> <img border="0" align="left" src="http://www.english.uiuc.edu/MAPS/poets/m_r/olds/olds.jpg" alt="Sharon Olds" width="200" height="265"> by Jacque Kahn Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She was, in her own words, raised as a "hellfire Calvinist." After gr...

<a name="service"> Robert W. Service - The People's Poet </a> <img border="0" align="left" src="http://todayinliterature.com/assets/photos/s/robert-service-190x274.jpg" alt="Robert W. Service" width="190" height="274">Robert William Service was born in Preston, Lancashire, England to Scottish parent...

<a name="beautifullyburnt"><center> beautifullyburnt </a> featured poet for the month of april 2006 </center></a> beautifullyburnt is one of our teen poets, but the maturity of her writing belies her tender age. Her work can be found in the following forums: Teen Spirit, Poetry from the Dark Side, G...

Laureate Ninian - April 1 - September 30 2006: Archive During the six months I have been Poet Laureate of the Poetry Pages, I have attempted, each week, to draw attention to some aspect of poetry. I have featured published poets and Poetry Pages poets alike, attempting to share with you poetry that...

oh i think the image is worthy of an entire poem behind it...you should see what you can do with it, gillian! i really admire your use of imagery in your work...

nin

i like this image, gillian....however, it feels unfinished to me ....