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Oct.06.2011
I want to say something profound, but the most I can do is write a poem.
After permanently moving away from New York and Florida in 2005 I adopted Georgia, and Georgia has returned the favor. This past August, Mayor Mickey Thompson and City Council Members appointed me as Poet Laureate of...
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Sep.06.2011
I was born in New York and lived there most of my life. In April 2001 I moved to Georgia to stay with my sister while I waited for my NY house to be sold. Six months later we watched the Twin Towers collapse over the TV. I had mixed feelings about not being there. On the one hand I was grateful to...
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Aug.24.2011
Morgen Bailey has a blog where she interviews writers of all genres. My post will appear on October 3 but she also asked me to submit tips for writing poetry. I wrote about ten of them and realized I had seen most of these suggestions elsewhere. Pondering a little deeper, I came up with three bonus...
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Jun.23.2011
Pushcart-nominated poet Bryan Borland says he's gay so I would love to share the wonderful poem that he wrote for my poetry project titled "Sex" but it hasn't been posted yet. It will be soon. It's a nice comparison to see a heterosexual and a homosexual view on the same theme side-by-...
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Jun.10.2011
In order to answer Red Room’s blog question of the week, “What Would Shakespeare Blog” I would need to know what a blog is. Although I have experienced the “blogosphere” for some time, its essence must have been absorbed into my consciousness without a literal understanding. Yet blogs now function...
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Jun.04.2011
Here's what Annmarie Lockhart, publisher of unbound CONTENT says about our upcoming book project:
"Starting next week, with the official launch of WIP: Saltian, a new post will go up every day here for 51 days. The posts will consist of a poem by Alice Shapiro and a critique by a member of...
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May.16.2011
Again, thanks to RedRoom and Gina Misiroglu for helping me get this article published on MyDaily.com. The photo is priceless!
On a leisurely walk to my college friend's house one crisp November afternoon, a young man in a sweet red Corvette pulled up to the curb and asked for directions. I...
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Apr.27.2011
Thanks to RedRoom and Gina Misiroglu for helping me get this article published on MyDaily.com:
"Although I was heartbroken, my divorce was amicable. No kids, we split the property 50/50 and I got the "good" car (which I later sold back to my ex). Ted wanted to remain...
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Apr.16.2011
I wanted to give the finalists a gift for competing in the American Poet - GA Sports eliminations show we filmed on March 3 so I contacted the local thrift store and arranged a "Free-4-All Shopping Spree" where they had 3 minutes to stuff as many books into their basket as they could. It...
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Mar.12.2011
Thank God my friends on the West Coast, USA are all safe. My prayers go out to the people in Japan and elsewhere who are suffering the effects of the earthquake and tsunami's.
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Jan.04.2011
Paris abounds with literary figures past and present. When you visit, take some time to share the places made famous in works ranging from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series to Ernest Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast." Many cafes and establishments that have literary events are closed...
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Oct.27.2010
We traveled to Statesboro for a Georgia book festival this past weekend. I was a bit disappointed with sales, not only mine, but many of the authors. Afterwards I learned my sales activity was actually pretty good, but certainly not enough to claim best-seller status. I did however, have great...
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Oct.13.2010
I imagine he might eliminate the singing, keep the rhythm, escalate the poetry until it mushroomed into the malleable psyche of the masses.
Armed with this vision, I decided to turn the screw on reality TV and produce a poetry franchise to rival, surpass, and make legendary the literary competition...
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Sep.12.2010
Women and men have been flocking to New York City to experience the thrill of stardom for decades. From Broadway to Harlem, this is the city where no one jeers at creativity. Originality is the lifeblood and lure of the most thrilling city in the world. You don't need an agent and you don't...
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Sep.06.2010
At the Decatur Book Festival I discovered that while many of the kids and teens were not overly receptive to and quite bored or turned-off by "poetry" and my rather literary appearing books, once I told them about the TV reality show I'm producing where poets would compete for a book...
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About Alice
Alice Shapiro is currently serving as Poet Laureate of Douglasville, Georgia. She has been writing since 1985 when she studied under William Packard, founder of The New York Quarterly and professor at NYU. Her poetry credits include a first collection...
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