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Hannah Chutzpah is a performance poet, activist, smartarse and klutz. She has been described as ‘fine’ by three therapists; ‘of good character’ by a high court judge; and as a ‘potential maggot-thrower’ by the Metropolitan police.

Hannah has lived in London all her life, apart from a brief detour to study creative writing at the University of East Anglia. She runs the Whippersnapper Press (whippersnapperpress.com) for short, sharp funny creative writing, as well as an annual Vogon Poetry Slam.

On a number of occasions her poetry has made people cry. Apparently in a good way. Her first pamphlet 'Alchemy Treasure and Butterfly Wings' is available now. ...more

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Theatre Review: Hooray for Hollywood

Hooray for Hollywood

Review of an amazing piece of theatre I saw last night. It's on at the Rosemary Branch Theatre, 2 Shepperton Road, Islington, London N1 3DT. It runs only until this Sunday (11th July 2010) - if you're in London I urge you to catch it.

Hooray for Hollywood is an innovative and harrowing piece of theatre, which uses live actors and puppets to tell the story of one child’s expe Read more of this blog post »

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Published on July 08, 2010 03:51

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“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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“My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. ”
― Samuel Johnson

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“Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.”
― Mark Twain

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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

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“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.”
― Jack Kerouac

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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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message 4: by Hannah

Sep 16, 2010 02:53PM

Brad wrote: "I miss your wit around here, Hannah. Come back."

Aw, thank you Brad! I'm not gone - just far too busy. Took most of my creative writing down 'cause it's going up here instead: www.whippersnapperpress.com - but this does not mean I'm gone: I have two mean reviews stewing away in my nasty little mind which will go up just as soon as I get the time.

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