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Archive By Year

January 2004

• Rod Serling by Bill Ectric on January 7, 2004
• Cabaradio! Music, Poetry, Dance, and More in D.C. by Bill Ectric on January 9, 2004
• Wild Things, From Dreams to Page and Back Again by Sean Hogan on January 24, 2004
• Marquis de Sade by JetBlack on January 29, 2004

February 2004

• Rejection Letters by poetryhighway on February 7, 2004
• Free the Food: The Diggers by Dragonbait on February 29, 2004

March 2004

• An Interview With Robert Creeley by Jamelah Earle on March 2, 2004
• Can a Poet Save Hip Hop? Meet Saul Williams (2 comments) by AmethystWordsmith on March 10, 2004
• Ambrose Bierce by Darran Anderson on March 30, 2004

April 2004

• Nikolai Gogol, the Lunatic Messiah by Darran Anderson on April 5, 2004
• Eileen Myles: Perfecting the Art of Telling the Truth by ncfeminist on April 5, 2004
• An Interview With Stetson Kennedy by Bill Ectric on April 17, 2004

May 2004

• LitKicks @ LitFest: Bethesda, MD April 25, 2004 by Caryn Thurman on May 5, 2004
• When Corso Dropped his BOMB by Caryn Thurman on May 7, 2004

June 2004

• Minn of the Mississippi: On the River by Bill Ectric on June 6, 2004

July 2004

• Barry Fitton’s Footsteps by Judih Haggai on July 13, 2004
• Paul Reps: Weightless Gifts by SooZen Lee on July 13, 2004

October 2004

• Write Us A Poem (44 comments) by Levi Asher on October 31, 2004

November 2004

• What Are You Reading? (50 comments) by Caryn Thurman on November 4, 2004
• Do Today’s Lit Scenes Represent You? (33 comments) by Levi Asher on November 7, 2004
• Seen and Heard (7 comments) by Caryn Thurman on November 9, 2004
• Making the Cut (16 comments) by Levi Asher on November 10, 2004
• Books on Film (20 comments) by Jamelah Earle on November 11, 2004
• The Lonely Writer (26 comments) by Levi Asher on November 13, 2004
• The Process (33 comments) by Levi Asher on November 15, 2004
• Seen and Heard (38 comments) by Caryn Thurman on November 16, 2004
• No Exit (40 comments) by Levi Asher on November 20, 2004
• What Are You Reading? (67 comments) by Caryn Thurman on November 23, 2004
• Winter of our Discontent (37 comments) by Levi Asher on November 28, 2004
• Seen and Heard (14 comments) by Caryn Thurman on November 30, 2004

December 2004

• What You Want (37 comments) by Levi Asher on December 1, 2004
• Two Tickets to Paradise Lost (19 comments) by Jamelah Earle on December 2, 2004
• Hiphop Poetry Christmas List (35 comments) by Levi Asher on December 5, 2004
• What Are You Reading? (76 comments) by Caryn Thurman on December 7, 2004
• What Is It About Poetry? (36 comments) by Levi Asher on December 8, 2004
• Baudelaire 2004 (14 comments) by Levi Asher on December 12, 2004
• reVerse: A Review (12 comments) by Caryn Thurman on December 14, 2004
• Googling It (13 comments) by Levi Asher on December 20, 2004
• The True Poet (44 comments) by Caryn Thurman on December 21, 2004
• Danger on Peaks: Gary Snyder’s Latest (16 comments) by Jamelah Earle on December 24, 2004
• Telling the Whole Story (29 comments) by Caryn Thurman on December 28, 2004
• Drawing a Blank: the Top Literary Stories of 2004 (35 comments) by Levi Asher on December 30, 2004

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Nine years old and running, Action Poetry is an open forum for sharing original poems.

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