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Joseph Charles MacKenzie

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Joseph Charles MacKenzie is the only American to have won the Scottish International Open Poetry Competition, as noted in The Times Literary Supplement (January, 27, 2017) and was nominated in the United States for the Pushcart Prize.

MacKenzie taught English in a traditional French lycée while living in Paris where he was Poet in Residence at the Club des Poètes and a paid literary consultant for director Vicky Messica's production, "Rimbaud et Verlaine," at the Théâtre des Déchargeurs.

A traditional Catholic and Thomist, MacKenzie studied theology and philosophy in France, Switzerland, Rome, and United States. After his final ordination in the traditional Minor Orders (Porter, Lector, Acolyte, Exorcist), he left the religious life in order ...more

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WHERE shall they hide now, the merchants of death, Who burned our books and robbed our throats of voice, Who muzzled minds and sought to gag our breath, Who in the blood of innocents rejoice? To whom shall they turn, depravitys elite, The dream-smashing mobs, despoilers of youth, Now that their toppled gods are obsolete And die in darkness at the dawn of Truth? Against what social order shall they Read more of this blog post »

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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