A small poetry press in Wales had their launch cancelled because some religious group threatened Waterstone's and Waterstone's caved in. Here's their blog, which includes an email address for teh Waterstone's guy. I've written him an outraged email from our company and if you wanted to do the same you can get the details (and maybe copy the guys in on it to show support?)here: feeds@yuku.com (Quincy R Lehr) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6943 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:49:21 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6941/t/On-Prospect-Hill.html On Prospect Hill

Decaying leaves and hearthsmoke scent the air
where Autumn maples bleed upon the earth.
Vermilion stars obscure the Date of Birth
on marble footstones, nestle in my hair
and bristle on my coat, on my beret.
Each tree cleaves to its mark on Prospect Hill,
a chorus done with rage and mourning still
gesticulates against the smoldering gray
of moon and clouds. I find a date of death
beneath the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rick Mullin) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6941 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:53:23 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6939/t/-39-Warning-may-induce-a-burning-sensation-39-.html feeds@yuku.com (meeebles) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6939 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:36:26 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6938/t/Aubade-A-Pastoral.html Aubade: A Pastoral

And when the solemn time comes to admit

The weariness that detuned violining brings,

And notes no longer whir in joyful fits,

... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (NAF) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6938 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:44:25 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6937/t/With-Debts-to-Merwin-et-al.html An Episode

He's long since retired. The feeble skin

Hangs in low drapes where furrows carve the cheeks,

And bumbling efforts made to grope the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (NAF) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6937 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:02:25 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6936/t/Shape-poetry.html

Magic reading

http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6936 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:42:24 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6935/t/Encounter.html She read a book alone the other night,

Her finger pointing out each word she said,

Diligently sounding it just right,

feeds@yuku.com (muroneslakimnirie) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6935 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:36:13 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6933/t/Grant-Park.html Grant Park

Ontogeny. The darkness cut, I've come
awake. I want to paint again. To write.
I hear you on the telephone tonight
conversing with a voice that's calling from
the television:... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rick Mullin) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6933 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:18:20 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6932/t/Fix-It.html

Fix It

There never was a thing you couldn't fix.
Cracks in the wall, the hinges where a door
collapsed, the sinking round our toilet bowl,
--you wound up excavating clear to Seoul--
all of them yielded to your cold butt kicks.
You thrived on "fix-it" laws.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Lance Levens) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6932 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:17:50 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6931/t/ANOTHER-SESTINA.html
MOLLY

Molly, some people said, was always wild,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (sonnet622) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6931 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:55:10 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6930/t/His-Bathroom-Chandelier.html You bid twelve grand for it. It looked like squid
had sprouted tentacles upon our ceiling--
a blashphemy of art nouveau. I'm feeling
deja-vu: I drew it as a kid.

The saids and said-nots amplify the air.
The air grows humid with the wires' friction
against the closet's metal bars. The air
is saturated with bodies' constriction.

A piece broke off onto the floor, broke... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (christy1985) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6930 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:12:58 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6929/t/NEED-TITLE-CRITICISM-SUGGESTIONS.html suggestions for changes and improvements. Or if it isn't worth saving at all, please say so. Edit in, with an attempt to outsmart the formatting problems:
Only the last three lines are changed here. And I forgot to save the original ones. Sorry. Oops! Not only is the spacing still badly screwed up, I screwed up
the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (sonnet622) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6929 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:28:03 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6928/t/Condensation.html Condensation.

... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (AllyKd) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6928 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:50:13 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6927/t/None-yet.html One crawls from underneath the shelf,
a couple more appear - an elf,
two goblins, Luke, a fairy. Faded
batwings flap in my face. I turn
and nearly step on Bob the Frog
whose pudgy fists hold up a bag.
His mother prompts him, "Trick..." then scans
for cuter costumes. I miss the night
that flung its razored wings around
my feet and turned the slithering leaves
to fangs; that shivered slyly down
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Celimlodyn) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6927 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:45:52 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6926/t/All-Juster-all-the-time.html
Go to www.poets.org and click on "Poets & Poetry" on the upper left, then scroll to "Discussion Forums," then go to the top box under "The Writing Life."

Please turn your cellphones off! ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Michael Juster) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6926 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:40:20 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6925/t/A-Religious-Commercial.html `A Religious Commercial

Ecclesiastics on the radio?
Please tell me God's not plugging Cinemax!
Is that the only way for Him to go?
Or will He next emerge on Fishing Facts?
I'm rather interested like the rest,
in why the Pope is consecrating Tide.
Could benediction be the one that's best
for washing clothes that dry complete inside?
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Crazybored) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6925 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:51:21 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6924/t/Eve-39-s-Choice.html Eve's Choice

Good for food, and pleasant to the eyes,

The tree attracted Eve, who would observe

Its flowers... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (wcmarsh) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6924 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:57:44 GMT