Author Archives: Grace Curtis

In Remembrance

August, 2001 © 2010-2012 Grace Curtis

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Avoiding Publishing Negativity by Joey Connelly, Guest Blogger

We try and try, don’t we?  Being a poet requires the sacrifice of several virgins, and we, despite advanced educations and countless hours questioning the validity of each comma, keep at it, submitting to any journal that has even a … Continue reading

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My Top Ten Favorite Poetry Podcasts

These podcasts are why I go for long walks every evening.  All are free and available on iTunes.  You can listen to them through iTunes on your computer so you don’t have to own an iPod; although, why wouldn’t you?  1. … Continue reading

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Getting It Together Over a Number of Occasions

One of the standard questions asked of the many poets in the interviews republished from the New York Quarterly, in the book I featured in my last blog, The Craft of Poetry, Interviews from the New York Quarterly edited by … Continue reading

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Finding the Poetic Needle in the Haystack at the NFSPS Conference

Chicago poet, Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody was one of my luckiest finds at the National Federation of States Poetry Societies’ 2011 Annual Conference in Dearborn, Michigan over the weekend of June 16-20. I went there hoping to connect with living, breathing … Continue reading

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The Dawn of a New Blog

I started this site because, well first of all, I have always wanted to blog about poetry. (Who doesn’t want to blog about something, right?) But, until a couple of weeks ago when I quit my demanding fulltime job of the … Continue reading

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