Penguin Books is 75 years going. Design your variant of a cover from their templates and add it to the flickr set.
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This is a page of a poem by José Garcia Villa from 1949. I put it online 3 years ago and it is consistently one of my most viewed images at Flickr with about 7800 views.
The post about his article in Horizon Magazine keeps bringing in new traffic. The Filipino poet died 13 years ago. According to wikipedia, “he is known to have introduced the “reversed consonance rime scheme” in writing poetry, as well as the extensive use of punctuation marks—especially commas, which made him known as the Comma Poet.”
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Today is Al Purdy Day, and the 10th year anniversary of Purdy‘s death.
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Going on what may feel like decades, Dan Wells of Biblioasis is stuck away from the London Book Fair in Amsterdam but with train tickets out, at last word.
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I started pesbo in August 2005. This is my 600th blog post on pesbo.
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Going into its 14th year, the Prince Edward County Author’s Festival is the last weekend in May, celebrating Canadian literature by established and emerging writers. This year includes readings by Marianne Ackerman, Dani Couture, Steven Heighton, Helen Humphreys, Carolyn Smart, Cordelia Strube, Paul Vermeersch and Catherine Gildiner. It’s been described as being “the best small-scale literary festival in Ontario.”
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Most things are cyclical. Like How to get unstuck? Try something, watch, correct, try, watch, etc.