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dwell in possibility: a poem from Elizabeth Raby

A Conversation with Beauty I don’t know who you are in the abstract. I rarely say your name. I have to exclude so much to find you. If you were a better person, you would see me everywhere: In the … Continue reading

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dwell in possibility: elizabeth raby

Elizabeth Raby is the author of 3 full-length poetry collections, This Woman (2012), Ink on Snow (2010), and The Year the Pears Bloomed Twice (2009), all published by Virtual Artists Collective and of four chapbooks. She worked as a poet-in-the-schools … Continue reading

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dwell in possibility

encountering the divine in poetry …a free reading and conversation open to all 26 May 2012, 1:00 – 4:00 pm Lutheran School of Theology 1100 E. 55th Street Chicago, IL 60615 Daniel Bowman, Jr. David Breeden Nina Corwin Albert DeGenova … Continue reading

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a special offer on 2012 titles

New for 2012 | order all six titles for $42.00 (free shipping in the United States):

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Reading For St. Valentine’s Day

A Reading in Honor of St. Valentine’s Resilient Heart: Long and Short Loves — Domesticated Lust Elizabeth Raby and Janet Eigner We’ll read from our own pantry of love poems — sweet, savory, and spicy — and from an anthology … Continue reading

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Elizabeth Raby biography

Raby’s newest book, this woman, published by Virtual Artists Collective, is available as of January 2012.  Two previous poetry books, Ink on Snow (2010) and The Year the Pears Bloomed Twice (2009), were also published by Virtual Artists Collective (vacpoetry.org).  Her … Continue reading

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this woman

Elizabeth Raby Poems that explore how that girl became this woman, how the experiences of the child shaped the preoccupations, the eyes, the head and the heart, of the adult. Poems that explore the whole mysterious cycle, with stops for grief … Continue reading

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samples

Wendy Barker, “Full Moon, Cirrocumulus, Light Breeze, and Iridescence” | mp3 Wendy Barker at The Twig, San Antonio, 21 February 2009 | mp3 Wendy Barker and Elaine Wong, two poems from Two Southwests (in English and Cantonese), at The Twig, … Continue reading

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books

Association of Stories in Macao, Poem on a Plane Tree’s Leaf (2011) Sandra Becker, At the Well of Flowers (2011) Daniel Bowman, Jr., A Plum Tree in Leatherstocking Country (2012) David Breeden, This is Just to Say (2009) Inara Cedrins, … Continue reading

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the year the pears bloomed twice

Elizabeth Raby Lust, greed, avarice, gluttony….all are present in the poems of The Year the Pears Bloomed Twice. From the small ache at her center, the poet celebrates and quarrels with the beauty and grief of this world, her hungers … Continue reading

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