Author: Shannon C. Ward
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Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival
Along with the other winners of the 2013 Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition, I will be reading at the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival this Sunday. The festival will feature panels and discussions by North Carolina publishers as well as by Fady Joudah and Kathryn Stripling Byer. If you’re in the Cary area, come on out & join…
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My Poems in a Podcast
Check it out: I’m this week’s featured poet on Superstition Review‘s podcast. Listen free through iTunes U. Many thanks to Trish Murphy & her amazing editorial staff!
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Michael S. Begnal’s Future Blues
One of the pleasures of the writing life is getting to know the other people who gravitate toward that sphere. Writers are fun. They spend prolonged periods holed up with their creations, and then (with the exception of your Dickinsons and Salingers) they emerge from their caves into the bigger world, usually feeling somewhere between…
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Here is a blog …
Here is a blog post I wrote earlier this month but didn’t get to post until now. There’s no wireless here at the Anderson Center. I have been neglecting this blog and my writing in general for several months now, but today, I am in the top of an old water tower that has been…
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http://superstitionreview.asu.edu/n8/
Many Thanks to Patricia Colleen Murphy and everybody else at The Superstition Review for another fabulous issue! I’m thrilled to have a couple of poems alongside those by Dorianne Laux, Sherman Alexie, and several other talented souls!
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Swamp Dog and Other Superstitions
On my way home from a Halloween party a couple of weekends ago, I hit a deer. Five minutes earlier, I had been thinking about how it seemed like exactly the kind of night when one would hit a deer and how I should be extra careful, and no sooner had the thought situated itself toward…
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