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Fred Kirchner

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in Evanston, Illinois, The United States

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Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction

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My Grandfather, Leland Arthur Pomeroy; Marco Pantani (IL Pirata); Kath ...more

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Fred Kirchner won the 2005 Main Street Rag Chapbook Contest with his chapbook Platform of an Unacknowlegded World Legislator. He usually mispells 'unacknowlegded,' but may have gotten it right this time.

He also owns four bikes and had two poems in the anthology The Art of Bicycling: A Treasury of Verse, published by Breakaway Books. That's why he calls his new apartment the Bike and Poem Shop. That, and it's an old curbside storefront in the savage heart of downtown Dayton, Ohio--where Fred lives and works as a Teen Librarian.

Though, whenever he can, Fred goes to Springfield where he's acitve with Project Jericho, emceeing teen slam workshops and being poet-in-residence at the Springfield Museum of Art and the Clark County Juvenile Detenti ...more

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Platform of an Unacknowledged World Legislator

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The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007

by Albert Goldbarth

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Fred Kirchner said: " dude can write a poem. check out the 2nd poem in the book, Library. And also read Roses and Skulls on p. 118. Bought this puppy at City Lights Bookstore in the Poetry Room! "

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Skid (Pitt Poetry Series)

by Dean Young

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Midwest Eclogue: Poems

by David Baker

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“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
― H.G. Wells

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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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