Quoted: This needs no introduction. Enjoy a "Howl": __________________________________________________________________________ World Class Poetry Blog is written by the poet, Allen Taylor. Copyrighted 2008. All rights reserved. Market your poetry with 2008 Poet's Market. Get a free .pdf broadside of Tattoo, a world class poem

Quoted: I've been looking forward to introducing the Micropoetry Chapbook Series and finally it is here. This is a call to entries. You'll have to click the link to read the submission guidelines, but here's a quick definition of micropoetry. Verse in 140 characters or less. This is poetry published at one of the several microblogging services such as Twitter,

Quoted: Yesterday I announced the addition of the second chapbook by Gary B. Fitzgerald to the World Class Poetry Toolbar. Today I'd like to offer you two free poetry chapbooks available for download. Going Dutch - Going Dutch is actually a couple of years old, but I'm making it available for free for the first time. These are poems I wrote while on R&R

Quoted: A couple of weeks ago I announced the publication of Hardwood, a chapbook by Gary B. Fitzgerald. Today I am proud to introduce its counterpart, Softwood. Both digital chapbooks are available for free with the download of the World Class Poetry Toolbar. Reading Gary B. Fitzgerald's poems are like going back in time and pulling William Blake up from the

Quoted: I don't enter many contests. I generally consider them a waste of time and money. But I might consider entering Best New Poets 2009, for which there is now an open manuscript call. Contest sponsors have been accepting nominations from writing progams and magazines until now. But I just recently received an announcement that open submissions are being

Quoted: Just dropping in to make a few short announcements. Sorry for the brevity, but these must be mentioned and I haven't much time. I'll write more later: The Twitter poem experiment for National Poetry Month went very well. While I wasn't much impressed with some of the poems I wrote for Twitter distribution, it seems my audience liked them. I appreciate

Quoted: In the mid-1990s, those of us who were brave enough to risk our lives and reputations by using this thing called the World Wide Web found a little web community that allowed us to set up our web pages for free. It was really nice. Actually, it wasn't. But it was free, which made it seem really nice. And if you had any technical know-how, and most of

Quoted: Hardwood, Gary B. Fitzgerald's chapbook, is now available through the World Class Poetry Toolbar. Download the toolbar for free and enjoy Gary's poetic verses. __________________________________________________________________________ World Class Poetry Blog is written by the poet, Allen Taylor. Copyrighted 2008. All rights

Quoted: I am pleased to announce the first poetry chapbook published by World Class Poetry. It is not yet available, but it soon will be. Gary B. Fitzgerald has commented on some of the blog posts here at World Class Poetry Blog and has been a faithful reader now for about a year, I guess. Last year he published two full-length poetry books under the imprint