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Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:22:44 -0500

Title: We Are Young Artist: Fun. featuring Janelle Monae

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:02:44 -0500

Title: We Are Young

Artist: Fun. featuring Janelle Monae

deathhumsmagazine: SHHH! It’s a secret. If you print out the...

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:11:56 -0500

deathhumsmagazine:

SHHH! It’s a secret.

If you print out the entire flyer (front & back, pictured above) & show it at the door on Sunday, December 4th at the Quarterly Arts Soiree, you’ll automatically get $5 off admission.

P.S.,

If you’re having trouble printing the flyer from here, click the QAS link above & you can print it right from the front page of the site.

(Posted by: Jennifer)

"Love is" in i79 of Short Fast & Deadly

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:20:52 -0500

Check it out here.

"Black Holes for Beginners" on the Serotonin Factory's Friday Love Poem Blog

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:07:36 -0500

"Black Holes for Beginners" on the Serotonin Factory's Friday Love Poem Blog:

Brand-new poem. These ones are few and far between, so check it out now!

New Poem by Michelle Denise Jackson. Act Like You Know.

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:11:50 -0500

New Poem by Michelle Denise Jackson. Act Like You Know.:

borderlinepoetry:

Hera’s Vows to Zeus, On Their Wedding Day

On the day when
my breath becomes an ailing furnace
and my skeleton is the ramshackle remnant
of this massacre we call living,
I hope you will still see me as I am today,
a girl on a mountaintop
in a white dress
jumping from an…

Read this poem.

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:09:09 -0500

Read this poem.:

borderlinepoetry:

The Prayers of Bullets
After Annelyse Gelman

Forgive us our velocity, the way
we can only love inside out—
our piety has always been clumsy.

But we still remember creation—
The day you tore us from the sky,
and we marveled at the thunder
you had placed in our throats.
This…

Hi. I am the original writer! =) Just finished it today! You can absolutely publish it! I would be more than thrilled! =)))) Thanks so much!

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:41:35 -0400

Amazing! Can you email it to me at rhapsodyinblu@gmail.com along with your real name, contact info, and a short bio? If so, I’ll publish it in the September issue of Borderline (http://borderlinepoetry.info).

& Thank YOU for being awesome.

(>-) + <3

Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory, Editor-in-Chief

Armed with every precious failure: The Sound of Becoming

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:34:08 -0400

Armed with every precious failure: The Sound of Becoming:

can someone point me in the direction of the original writer? i would love to publish this.

playingtheboard:

Sometimes it is a bang. A thunder clap
inside the heart—an earthquake. An idea
so strong it spasms, ripples through the body
like the body is a blue-moon rock-kissed lake.
It might be a shotgun blast. A buckshot boom
goose-bumping its way outwards, towards feet
and…

nicolehomer: Poems and Poets and Other Histories We Should Know...

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:23:02 -0400

nicolehomer:

Poems and Poets and Other Histories We Should Know #2b

The last poem I posted was Chad Anderson’s “Like Math.” One of the things I want to emphasize is the need for growth and evolution so even though “Like Math” is several years old, it’s still his most requested poem, but it is not representative of who he is now or what he is writing now.

This is “Liars, All of Us,” probably his second most requested poem. It’s two years old so even this isn’t an accurate snapshot of where he is as a writer today, it’s important to note how slam and performance allow us to change both our writing and our delivery styles.

jeshuay: That’sFuckingHarious

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:21:43 -0400

jeshuay:

That’s
Fucking
Harious

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to..."

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:37:46 -0400

““When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment.
I told them they didn’t understand life.” - John Lennon”

- (via heyheyisley)

love.

Borderline: CONTEST ALERT!

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:46:21 -0400

Borderline: CONTEST ALERT!:

borderlinepoetry:

Borderline has big news!

In honor of our upcoming 1-Year Anniversary in September, we are putting out a special ”Best of Borderline” issue- our first-ever PRINT edition, featuring the most prolific voices to grace our magazine this year, as indicated by readers, editors, and contributing poets,…

oddballsdontbounce: ayoankhseyelettes: cowtownblog: this is a...

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:46:22 -0400

oddballsdontbounce:

ayoankhseyelettes:

cowtownblog:

this is a love poem./

When i fell back into heaven it sounded exactly like this. As I reblog this I cant even listen to this poem. This poem is a catapault. The first and only time i heard it was three days ago and everyday since has been Alice and wonderland has been glory and gold metals and running hard like a champ, i blame this poem.

i thank god for this poem.

3am skype calls to be read this poem- yet another reason why this woman makes magic of my life. this poem- this is what love says. this is how love tells of itself.

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MEGAN FALLEY [ON ICE!]: IF YOU REALLY LOVE A WRITER

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 23:33:54 -0400

MEGAN FALLEY [ON ICE!]: IF YOU REALLY LOVE A WRITER :

meganfalley:

“How vain it is to sit down to write

when you have not stood up to live”

- Henry David Thoreau.

Everyone wants to give a writer the perfect notebook. Over the years I’ve acquired stacks: One is leather, a rope of Rapunzel’s hair braids its spine. Another, tree-friendly,…

givesmehope: I was on the bus, and a 5yr. Old girl was cutting out hearts and I asked why. She said,...

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:59:39 -0400

givesmehope:

I was on the bus, and a 5yr.
Old girl was cutting out hearts and I asked why.

She said, “I’m cutting out hearts to give to all the boys so they can break these hearts instead of mine.

” then she handed me a heart and said, “here, I don’t want you heart broken.

” her LGMH.

"Ink makes us beautiful."

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:15:51 -0400

“Ink makes us beautiful.”

- Calliope Nerve’s motto & my new favorite mantra

"Talk to strangers when the family fails and friends lead you astray when Buddha laughs and Jesus..."

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:26:50 -0400

“Talk to strangers
when the family fails and friends lead you astray
when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out God is gay.
‘Cause angels and messiahs love can come in many forms:
in the hallways of your projects, or the fat girl in your dorm,
and when you finally take the time to see what they’re about
perhaps you find them lonely or their wisdom trips you out.”

- Saul Williams