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ONE TODAY Inauguration Poem by Richard Blanco with video and text

One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores,

peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces

of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth

across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies.…

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Added by 100K Poets Making A Difference on January 24, 2013 at 11:45pm — 2 Comments

Eagle Song by Joy Harjo spitting her fire and playing several musical instruments

EAGLE SONG

To pray, you open your whole self

To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon

To one whole voice that is you.…

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Added by 100K Poets Making A Difference on September 29, 2012 at 7:48pm — 1 Comment

Here's What's Up with the 2nd Annual 100 Thousand Poets for Change

Thanks to Emily Sidley and Kate Barton at Three Girls Media and Marketing for the news release excerpt shared below. And thanks also to radio station WZAB , commentator Damali Adele Ife of 100TPC Jamaica and 100TPC co-founder Michael Rothenberg for the…

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Added by 100K Poets Making A Difference on August 8, 2012 at 6:19pm — 1 Comment

Happy Birthday Maya Angelou

Author Maya Angelou putting pen to paper. (photo courtesy of Lipstick Alley)

With all the high-profile respect Maya Angelou gets from people like Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey you’d think she already won the Nobel Prize…

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Added by 100K Poets Making A Difference on April 4, 2012 at 11:45am — 6 Comments

Here Comes World Poetry Day 2012

Sometimes poetry is like a whole world all by itself. The more you check it out the more you discover about it, like in 1999 UNESCO proclaimed March 21 as World Poetry Day. This is a statement pasted straight from their proclamation:

“The initiative of a global…

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Added by 100K Poets Making A Difference on March 12, 2012 at 8:30am — 2 Comments

100K Presents: 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature Champion Tomas Transtromer's The Couple

This is what a happy poet named Tomas Transtromer looks like after winning the Noble Prize in literature for living poetry all his life. (this photo courtesy of EPA)

I knew more about Robert Bly the translator of this poem than I did about…

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Added by 100K Poets Making A Difference on December 6, 2011 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

100K Presents: Julianza Kim Shavin's "Phantoms of the Ballet" (for the late Sam Haddock)

(photo of Sam Haddock with elephants courtesy of Whistleblowers.com)

You see how the teacher tenderly takes

the pink-slippered foot of the stick-thin kid

and places the toe on the calf

of the other leg, such that the…

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Added by 100K Poets Making A Difference on September 24, 2011 at 5:21pm — No Comments

100K Presents: Diann Blakely’s “I’m a Steady Rolling Man” (with podcast-bio of Robert Johnson)

("I'm a Steady Rolling Man"graphic by 100K based on photo courtesy of Diann Blakely)

Almost in Kentucky, the state that gave

My country 'tis of thee two armored foes …

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Added by 100K Poets Making A Difference on September 23, 2011 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

100K Presents: Michael Rothenberg on BlogTalkRadio Podcast

(original graphics by 100K and CTI Admin)

100 Thousand Poets for Change founder Michael Rothenberg joins WordBeat hostess and poet Yvonne de la Vega for a chat on BlogTalkRadio about the September 24, 2011, mega event. Besides…

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Added by 100K Poets Making A Difference on September 17, 2011 at 11:16am — 1 Comment

100K Presents: The Light, That Never Dies by Aberjhani (September 11 10th Anniversary Post)

(original graphic composition by 100K and CTI Admin)

And now we step…

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Added by 100K Poets Making A Difference on September 10, 2011 at 4:12pm — 2 Comments

100K Presents: Variations on the Word Love by Margaret Atwood

(original graphics art by 100K and CTI Admin)

This is a…

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Added by 100K Poets Making A Difference on September 9, 2011 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments

100K Presents: Forgiveness by Cendrine Marrouat

Sitting down, I looked at the picture in my hand;

In your face, I saw a tomorrow already planned.

With my fingers, I redrew your uncharted…

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Added by 100K Poets Making A Difference on September 5, 2011 at 9:30am — 3 Comments

100K Presents: Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

Sundays too my father got up early

and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

then with cracked hands that ached

from labor in…

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Added by 100K Poets Making A Difference on September 2, 2011 at 11:00am — 4 Comments

Q and A with 100 Poets for Change Founders Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion

The word “Change” is a big one that can mean a lot of things. Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion, the founders of 100 Thousand Poets for Change have shared this short interview to give some idea of the kind of changes they’re…

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Added by 100K Poets Making A Difference on August 15, 2011 at 10:30pm — No Comments

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Dianne Reeves - Jazz Day 2013

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Explore Creative Minds in Action

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Creative Thinkers International and 21st Century Notions of Community

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Tags: Berlin-Wall, Aberjhani, Creative-Thinkers-International, environmentalism, sustainability

Started by Author-Poet Aberjhani in The CTI News Room May 29.

The trends in Modern poetry

There is no definition for poetry as such. Many poets repeatedly said many slogans for it.Let us now discuss the recent trends and the styles involved in writing the verses. I wish to invite all…Continue

Tags: ROMANTIC, POEMS

Started by williamsji maveli in Consortium of Poets at Creative Thinkers International May 20.

CTI Spotlight Artist Sabine Sarah Stern, Sept 3 - Sept 9, 2012 8 Replies

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Tags: ecology, environmentalism, anniversary-celebrations, CTI-Spotlight-Artists, sustainability

Started by Aberjhani in CTI Spotlight Artists. Last reply by kenny baez May 6.

Video and Text for Barack Obama's Inauguration Speech 2013 1 Reply

Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: Each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the…Continue

Tags: American-history, African-American-History, Political-speeches, The-Year-2013, Inauguration-2013

Started by Creative Conversation Interviews in The Barack Obama Factor. Last reply by Creative Conversation Interviews Jan 22.

Barack Obama Wins 2012 Re-election: Text and Video of Victory Speech

Remarks delivered by President Barack Obama at approximately 1:35 a.m. EST November 7, 2012: Thank you so much.Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own…Continue

Tags: Top-Stories-of-the-year-2012, American-Politics, Barack-Obama-re-elected, 2012-elections, President-Barack-Obama

Started by Creative Conversation Interviews in The Barack Obama Factor Nov 7, 2012.

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