tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522390800982453762024-02-19T01:07:23.029-06:00azia said what? Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.comBlogger131125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-71946582123306621952013-05-27T15:45:00.000-05:002013-05-27T15:45:23.207-05:00I've moved!
I will no longer be posting on azia said what? But you can find me here:
http://aziadupont.blogspot.com
Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-18669648714068332982013-05-06T15:18:00.000-05:002013-05-13T08:14:18.865-05:00AWESOME Links+ Catching Fire Teaser
Hope some of these links provide some valuable information/entertainment!
-This is a super cool "Call for Submissions" Photgraphy + Writing Opportunity!
-Blog Dot Squalorly writer Garrett Dennert wrote "What the Writer May Hear"
-Advice from Ksenia Anske- Make Agents Come to You, Not the Other Way Around
-What NOT to Do When Beginning Your Novel: Advice from Literary Agents on Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-33495848523662600762013-05-01T08:07:00.000-05:002013-05-01T08:07:21.920-05:00IWSG : Genre Commitment
You guys, I'm not even kidding-- you have no idea how happy I am that A to Z is over. Yes, it was super fun to meet new bloggers and to see what awesome and creative things people came up with to blog about... but I really, really missed my favorite blogger's normal content. I'm very excited to get back to our regular blogging schedules.
It's the first Wednesday of the month (holy Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-6834166139785252512013-04-30T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-30T00:00:00.707-05:00A to Z : Z Poem - Raj Arumugam
It is the last day of the A to Z Challenge! Thanks for sticking by me through my poetry adventures! Tomorrow we go back to our regularly scheduled program-- and it is the day when all of us writer's ban together and reveal our innermost fears- The Insecure Writers Support Group!
Z Poem
Written by Raj Arumugam
Z is uselessLike an appendixIt's not like English'd Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-25910504435593187062013-04-29T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-29T00:00:12.205-05:00A to Z : Yellow painted toe nails - Azia Archer
There are only 2 Days left of the A to Z Challenge. Today I'm going to share a poem that I wrote last year, as it appeared in Haunted Waters Press.
Yellow painted toe nails
Written by Azia Archer
Yellow painted toe nails
do not sit well on a canvas of pale feet. The creamy white skin
bleeding into the polish so that an unnatural fungal appearance
prevails–reminding the Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-32439114444316734122013-04-27T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-27T00:00:00.633-05:00A to Z : Xerox Candy Bar - Richard Brauitgan
It's week 4 of the A to Z Challenge! I'm still running with my poetry-theme. Hope you enjoy!
Xerox Candy Bar
Written By Richard Brautigan
Ah,
you're just a copy
of all the candy bars
I've ever eaten.
Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-7183908593287819622013-04-26T10:22:00.000-05:002013-04-26T10:22:09.696-05:00A to Z : We Did Not Make Ourselves - Michael Dickman
It's week 4 of the A to Z Challenge! I'm still running with my poetry-theme. Hope you enjoy!
*I have to say I'm REALLY excited to share this poem with you guys-- it's one of my absolute favorite of ALL time.*
We Did Not Make Ourselves
Written by Michael Dickman
We did not make ourselves is one thing
I keep singing into my hands
while falling
asleep
for just aAziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-57961726972542349152013-04-25T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-25T00:00:07.654-05:00A to Z : "V" - Matthew Dickman
It's week 4 of the A to Z Challenge! I'm still running with my poetry-theme. Hope you enjoy!
"V"
Written by Matthew Dickman
Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-16086751194159931442013-04-24T07:40:00.000-05:002013-04-24T07:40:17.283-05:00A to Z : Ulalume - Edgar Allen Poe
It's week 4 of the A to Z Challenge! I'm still running with my poetry-theme. Hope you enjoy!
Ulalume
Written by Edgar Allen Poe
The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere—
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year;
It was hard by the dim lake of Auber,
In the misty mid Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-78672392851135099992013-04-23T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-23T00:00:04.863-05:00A to Z : This Is Not A Personal Poem - Alex Dimitrov
It's week 4 of the A to Z Challenge! I'm still running with my poetry-theme. Hope you enjoy!
This Is Not A Personal Poem
Written by Alex Dimitrov
This is not a personal poem. I don’t write about my life.I don’t have a life. I don’t have sex. I have not experienced death. Don’t take this personally but I don’t have any feelings either. The feelings I don’t have don’t run my life.Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-50538674089771047842013-04-22T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-22T00:00:11.902-05:00A to Z : So You Want to Be a Writer? - Charles Bukowski
It's week 4 of the A to Z Challenge! I'm still running with my poetry-theme. Hope you enjoy!
So You Want to Be a Writer?
Written by Charles Bukowski
Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-18416854754002719832013-04-20T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-20T00:00:07.135-05:00A to Z : Rebound Poem - Gregory Sherl
It is week 3 of Arlee Bird's A to Z Challenge. I will continue my theme of poetry by posting a poem a day. Hope you come back and check them out!
Rebound Poem (as appeared in kill author)
Written by Gregory Sherl
I fake break-up with K so I can rebound with myself. Alone, I fog every
mirror with my fake kissing. I am never thinking about the weather’s
attitude when I Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-80713881122205942372013-04-19T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-19T00:00:02.906-05:00A to Z : Quinquagesima - Justine Nicholas
It is week 3 of Arlee Bird's A to Z Challenge. I will continue my theme of poetry by posting a poem a day. Hope you come back and check them out!
Quinquagesima
Written by Justine Nicholas
—To Toni Williams (1944-2004)
Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-67982381664665217302013-04-18T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-18T00:00:03.820-05:00A to Z: Pull A String, A Puppet Moves - Charles Bukowski
It is week 3 of Arlee Bird's A to Z Challenge. I will continue my theme of poetry by posting a poem a day. Hope you come back and check them out!
Pull A String, A Puppet Moves
Written by Charles Bukowski
each man must realizethat it can all disappear very quickly:the cat, the woman, the job,the front tire,the bed, the walls, theroom; all our Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-82612268302818284842013-04-17T14:10:00.003-05:002013-04-17T14:10:52.621-05:00A to Z : Other People's Problems - Tyler Gobble
It is week 3 of Arlee Bird's A to Z Challenge. I will continue my theme of poetry by posting a poem a day. Hope you come back and check them out!
Other People's Problems (as appeared on madswirl)
Written by Tyler Gobble
I am down with OPP:
bring me your problems
people, I am here
for you, I am here.
Dead mother? yes
Cheating lover? yes
Public intoxication arrest?
Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-63431001650256217592013-04-16T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-16T00:00:13.805-05:00A to Z : Nikki - Dante Basco
It is week 3 of Arlee Bird's A to Z Challenge. I will continue my theme of poetry by posting a poem a day. Hope you come back and check them out!
Nikki
Written by Dante Basco
Nikki : Dante Basco (Def Poetry Jam) from Moonroof Martinez on Vimeo.
Yes, that is Rufio.
Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-6174039300022468562013-04-15T08:45:00.001-05:002013-04-15T08:45:09.870-05:00A to Z : Mad Girls Love Song - Sylvia Plath
It is week 3 of Arlee Bird's A to Z Challenge. I will continue my theme of poetry by posting a poem a day. Hope you come back and check them out!
Mad Girls Love Song
Written by Sylvia Plath
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-63408214401772848732013-04-13T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-13T22:54:12.979-05:00A to Z : Leisure, Hannah, Does Not Agree with You (2) - Hannah Gamble
It is week two of Arlee Bird's 2013 A to Z Challenge! For the challenge (and National Poetry Month) I have decided to post a poem for each letter of the alphabet!
Leisure, Hannah, Does Not Agree with You (2) (as appeared at The Poetry Foundation)
Written by Hannah Gamble
—After Catullus
My house disgusted me, so I slept in a tent.
Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-24046361990561027542013-04-12T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-12T00:00:02.972-05:00A to Z : Keen, Fitful Gusts Are Whisp'ring Here & There - John Keats
It is week two of Arlee Bird's 2013 A to Z Challenge! For the challenge (and National Poetry Month) I have decided to post a poem for each letter of the alphabet!
Keen, Fitful Gusts Are Whisp'ring Here & There
Written by John Keats
Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-42442771679640489522013-04-11T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-11T00:00:01.905-05:00A to Z : Just lost, when I was saved! - Emily Dickinson
It is week two of Arlee Bird's 2013 A to Z Challenge! For the challenge (and National Poetry Month) I have decided to post a poem for each letter of the alphabet!
Just lost, when I was saved!
Written by Emily Dickinson
Just lost, when I was saved!
Just felt the world go by!
Just girt me for the onset with Eternity,
When breath blew back,
And on the other side
I heard Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-20900383760672137022013-04-10T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-10T00:00:08.418-05:00A to Z : i like my body - e.e. Cummings
It is week two of Arlee Bird's 2013 A to Z Challenge! For the challenge (and National Poetry Month) I have decided to post a poem for each letter of the alphabet!
i like my body
Written by e.e. Cummings
i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite a new thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-35626713214516109142013-04-09T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-09T00:00:04.271-05:00A to Z : Heavy Petting in Cooper City, FL - Gregory Sherl
It is week two of Arlee Bird's 2013 A to Z Challenge! For the challenge (and National Poetry Month) I have decided to post a poem for each letter of the alphabet!
Heavy Petting in Cooper City, FL (as appeared in PANK Magazine)
Written by Gregory Sherl
We’re so young I still look out the window when you cry.
Still, this is how it starts: there is tongue kissing before baby
Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-71700488184918203342013-04-08T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-08T08:28:20.900-05:00A to Z : Grief - Matthew Dickman
It is week two of Arlee Bird's 2013 A to Z Challenge! For the challenge (and National Poetry Month) I have decided to post a poem for each letter of the alphabet!
Grief
Written by Matthew Dickman
Grief by Matthew Dickman from Portia Elan on Vimeo.
Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-21418871395731036282013-04-06T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-06T00:00:01.921-05:00A to Z : Flying Inside You Own Body - Margaret Atwood
I am a participant in Arlee Bird's 2013 A to Z Challenge! I am posting a poem for each letter of the alphabet. Sometimes the poem
will be prose, other times it might be an artistic rendition of the
poem, or a reading by the poet... the possibilities are endless! I hope
you will be stopping by throughout the Month of April to check them
out!
Flying Inside Your Own Body&Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752239080098245376.post-43579702429066801842013-04-05T00:00:00.000-05:002013-04-05T00:00:02.635-05:00A to Z : Eulalie by Edgar Allen Poe
I am a participant in Arlee Bird's 2013 A to Z Challenge! I am posting a poem for each letter of the alphabet. Sometimes the poem
will be prose, other times it might be an artistic rendition of the
poem, or a reading by the poet... the possibilities are endless! I hope
you will be stopping by throughout the Month of April to check them
out!
Eulalie
Written by Aziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377787046790580963noreply@blogger.com12