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"I appreciate Moderate Criticism"

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Updated: 20 May, 2020

Someone Critiqued My Poem. What next?

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Updated: 29 May, 2025

Contest Suggestions

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Updated: 29 May, 2025

Critique Workshop - Proposal

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Updated: 9 September, 2019

The Weight Of Words

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The Thrumming in my Veins (Primal Poetry Workshop)

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Ignorance and Stupidity Abound

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It's a Workshop, Not a Support Group

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Updated: 11 April, 2019

Misunderstanding One’s Endless Wisdom

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Updated: 14 August, 2017

Critique is the Opening to a Conversation

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Updated: 2 August, 2017

Please Use Care Critique Requests

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I'm Only Here for the Workshop

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Updated: 21 July, 2017

Please Use Care

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Congratulations to JudyAnne for Winning the May contest

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Updated: 10 June, 2016

The May Contest

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Congratulations Raj, Winner of the April 2016 Contest!

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Updated: 4 May, 2016

Belief, Perverted

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March 2016 Contest - Congratulations

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Updated: 1 April, 2016

The Repugnant Underbelly's Malicious Persona

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Near Sunset, in the Spring

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2016 Contest List

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Updated: 24 January, 2016

2016 Contest List

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Updated: 29 May, 2025

2016 Contests

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I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

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Updated: 16 December, 2015

2016 Contest Format

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Updated: 17 December, 2015

2016 Contests

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2016 Contests

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Updated: 29 May, 2025

An Early Dusk with Single Malt

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Reflections on an Uncaring World

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The Sad Cost of Appeasement

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Updated: 29 October, 2015

Relaxing with a Dram of Scotch

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Account Approval

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Updated: 29 May, 2025

A great Workshop

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Retrospective in Clay: Epilogue

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A Retrospective in Clay: Interlude

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A Retrospective in Clay: Prologue

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One Spot Left

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What can you do in 26 days?

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Updated: 5 May, 2015

An Exploration of Style, Subject, and Critique

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Updated: 1 June, 2015

26 days, one subject, three styles of poetry, biting critique, 10 slots . . . Are you willing to give it a try

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Updated: 30 April, 2015

Critique by Request

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Updated: 5 May, 2015

You Can't Blame Me For History (Workshop - Final)

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A Melancholy Pilgrimage (March Contest)

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One Pleasant July Day

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I'm Only Here For The Workshop

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Updated: 23 August, 2014

Counting the Regrets in Pentameter

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In the Morning, with Bitterness - Free verse

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In the Morning, with Bitterness

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The Questions that Torment My Mind

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A Conversation Across a Table

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At Dusk with Melancholy and Sorrow

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The Day I Saw Unrestrained Happiness

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In the Study One Night With Single Malt

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The Page You Are Looking For Cannot Be Found

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Updated: 29 May, 2025

I Walked the Palisade with Her Lost Smile

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"Was it that bad?" They Ask of Me

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In Daylight, On a Park Bench, One Summer

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As the Hectic Day Slipped Into Twilight

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As I Enjoyed the Morning; With Coffee

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As I Stood in Queue at the Shops One Day

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How Coffee Has Saved the World, Yet Again.

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In a Field, One Lost Day, With Birds

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I Want The Raw Truth

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Updated: 23 October, 2013

Absolute Frank and Candid Truth

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At Serendee

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I Find Comfort in Persepective

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A Calamity of Midnight

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Neopoet

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Updated: 29 May, 2025

But I Didn't Know it was Loaded!

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

Do Not Read This Blog

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

Of Moronic Accusations

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

Utopia with Calories

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New Writing Project

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The Internet is Not Free

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

Critique

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

The Compliment Form

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Updated: 18 May, 2011

Therapy or Workshop?

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

Horizons of Despondency

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It's a TV Wasteland

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Pie is Delicious

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

Time, Distance, and Abuse

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

The New AEC

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

Accountability

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

Transparency

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

The March 2011 AEC Ballot

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

The Real Truth

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

Since I Am Better Than You, Listen Up

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

The AEC, Site Guidelines, and Punishment

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

Lost and All Alone

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

Those who Can, Do.

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

Commenting to comment

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

Meaning - The Bane of Art

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

Shameless Self Promotion

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

Cotton Candy Poetry

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

A Quiet Arrangement of Time

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This Thought Occurred to Me

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Firefox 3.6.13

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Updated: 29 May, 2025

Blogs VS Poetry

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An Honest Critique is the Finest Compliment

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

And Where Have I Been?

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

As We Sat Over Drinks

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At Work One Afternoon

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In the Early Moonlight

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The Ordinary Cure

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While We Were Out Walking

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One Evening After Work

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Habits

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

Once Passion Slipped My Mind

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My Next Writing Project

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

At Eleanor's on Main

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A Poem A Day

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

A Brief Moment in Time

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Creating a new form

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

Words

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Updated: 2 June, 2011

My Temptation Rests In Your Eyes

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Calling All Workshop Leaders

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Updated: 29 May, 2025

Spotlight

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Suck Free Poetry Volume 3: A Question of Caricature

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Why We Write

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To Recline Upon the Heavens

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The Cotton Candy Effect

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Suck free Poetry Volume 3: A Question of Caricature

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I Had a Great Blog Written

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Grudges

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Forever is Too Short a Word

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Microcosm

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The BLOCK Button

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The Power of Being Wrong

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2010 07 July Contest Rules

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BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH

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Pugilist's Secret Plan

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Proposal III: Censorship Rules Modification

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Proposals

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Proposal II: Disciplinary Action Normalization

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Proposal I: Redefinition of the Complaint System

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So, Here We Are Again

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The Election Closes Tomorrow

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Freedom

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I Found the Source of Poetry

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Tantrums

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Driving

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OH NO! SAY IT ISN'T SO!

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When Standing on Principle, It's Best to Understand the Word

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I Saw a Thousand Years One Day

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The Future of Neopoet - Part II - Sewage Treatment

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Petition to Ban Pugilist

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Those Stupid Contests With Their Stupid, Stupid Prizes

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God Has Spoken

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Parasites, sycophants, and dolts . . OH MY!

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I'll be Running for the AEC Again, What Will You Do?

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One of the reasons I am so popular

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Unknown Sources

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I'm Not Saying ALL Free Verse Sucks

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The Biggest Asshole

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Who Knew "Goodbye" Could Taste so Sweet

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The Demise of Harmony

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Let's Get Serious

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Where Once Had Glanced Infinity

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2010 06 - June Contest Rules

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Whim versus Reason or "Don't be an idiot"

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Imagine if You Will

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The Key Was Ticking, Silently

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Kids Today

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There Upon a Dismal Day

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Recall Membership!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Future of Neopoet - Cesspool

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I Want the Raw Truth . . .

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Along an Unintended Path

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A Subject, a Subject, My Kingdom for a Subject!

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Wild Speculation

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Where Once There Was Utopia

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2010 05 - May Contest Rules

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I'm So Lonesome, I Could Cry

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Limitations

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Writing for Publication

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Reflections on a Flaunted Glass

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Help, Help, I'm Being Repressed!

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Communities, Systems, and Programming

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Pugilist's New Rules

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A Question of Caricature

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Boo hoo hoo, I'm going to sue!

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If I Only Had a Brain

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Of Comments Deleted and Other Poor Decisions

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Mock Freely

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I Read a Bit of Nonsense

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A Charmed Life

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2010 04 - April Contest Rules

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Oh Yeah? Well I'll Show You!

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God Tells Me That This Tale Is True

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Bloody Hell, I Have to Wait 9 Seconds!

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God Loves Me Best

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I Am a Special Snowflake

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Spite Club

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Gloves Off Religious Discussion

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Welcome to the 20th Centruy, that Quirky USA

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I am a Selfish Man

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There Was a City Built One Day

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What's a Conversation When You Don't Shut Up?

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Why So Serious?

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The Bible Tells Me So

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On Nightmares and Other Horrors

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I'll Be Running for the AEC Again

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Dichotomy

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How to be Popular

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Twenty Leagues East of Bashida

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2010 - March Contest Rules

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The f Word

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This is a test

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"The Streets"

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FUD

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If people I don't like are leaving a group I've joined, is it a problem?

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There Upon a Dismal Day

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2010 - February Contest

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2010 Contest Rules and Schedule

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Questions and Answers

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In a Racist State of Mind

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Peeing in the Soup

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Collaboration

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2010 Contests - Preliminary List - Please Review

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Why Do You Leave Comments?

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"Why Are You So Mean?"

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Nothing posted here will be considered an entry for ANY contest

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The Motivation of the Divisive

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The Dawn No Longer Breaks My Heart

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Moments Before the Sirens Called Our Names

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I'm Leaving Right This Second

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Workshop 1 - 2009/12/28 - 2010/01/09

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Another Offensive Blog Post

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Mentoring Dashboard - Access Denied

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Merry Christmas

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Critique the Poem, Not the Poet

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Love, Lust, and Not Knowing the Difference

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Snarling At Sunrise

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The Anatomy of an Insult

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Pilot Project Workshop Group Series

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Stupid is

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When the Incompetent Hate You, Revel in It

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2010 Contests Discussion

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Of Quests and Hopes and Hummingbirds

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Selfish, Smiling, and Worthless

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Idiots

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Inspiration or Skill?

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"You Think You Are So Smart!"

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Some People Will Take this Blog Post as a Personal Attack

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Busy Times

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"How Dare You!"

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"You Can't Critique Art"

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Can't We All Just Get Along?

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Who the Hell Are You?

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The Most Offensive Blog Post Ever

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Dickens Wrote to Pay the Rent

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Praise Addiction

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Drafting, it's not just for Beer

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A Workshop Environment

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Through a Surreal Mirror, I Gazed One Day

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Things Worth Hating

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A Breath of Wind Brought Me Your Name

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The Rules

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"You Must Be This Tall . . ."

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Extended Goodbyes

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"Honors and benefits already at the age of nine!"

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If the Proof is in the Pudding, Can We Still Eat It?

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Inspired

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Read this Blog Post OR ELSE!

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"Trust me Jonathan YOU do not want to take me on"

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The Untended Consequences of the October Contest

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We Don't Need No Steenkin' Rules!

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I'm Not Saying Everyone is Stupid

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Sniff - Whimper - Whine

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This Will Be Offensive

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Oh God I Just Can't Help Myself

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Away but not leaving

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InstantPublisher.com

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Goodbye Yellowbrick Stars

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Threats - The Currency of the Incompetent

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Train Wreck

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The War

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Suck Free Poetry Volume 2: Prelude to a Battle of Wits

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While I Drank Love You Poured Betrayal

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July Contest - Closes 7/31/2009 - See Rules for Contest Code

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Lecture Time - Ignore at Your Leisure

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I Saw You There, Standing One Day

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Suck Free Poetry Volume 2: Prelude to a Battle of Wits

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A Quiet Wink

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Platitudes

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Kicking the Cat and Other Bad Decisions Made While Angry

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That Cloak You Wear

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The towel, the throw, and the focus

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Inflation or "Where or where did that spine go?"

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June Contest - Closes 6/30/2009 - Review the rules for the Contest Code

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Structure Choices

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Poetry Structure - Rhyming - Structure - Preference - Etc.

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I Believe

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A Bright Light She Came a Visiting; a Visiting One Morn

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May Contest - Closes 5/31/2009 - Contest Code 053109

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From the Distance

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Through a Fluid Looking Glass

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April Contest Now Closed - Closed 4/30/2009

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Eight Lines

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March Contest Now Live - Closes 3/31/2009

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The Insurgency of Weather

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Accusations, Idiots, and Chocolate Milk

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February Contest Closed 2/28/2009 - No submissions considered after 2/28/2009

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There Among Life's Playground

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Newsflash! Pugilist / Jonathan is MEAN!

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2009 Contest Rules and Schedule

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Thesis: Rhyming does not define poetry

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AEC Nominations - 12/13/2008

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Workshops

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Dear God I Hate Whining

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Message from the AEC Chair

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Looking Back From Novemberr 4, 2008

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Through a Bright Convex Lens

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Style VS. Structure

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Search field not active for IE 5 or 6

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The Journey

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Pain, it's not just for poetry anymore

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Stupidity

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Arrogance

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And the Beat Goes On

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Entry Errors, Page Not Found Errors, and losing login credentials

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Offline through August 9th but here's something to review

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Self Publishing Follow-up

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At Middlepool Falls

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Suck Free Poetry Volume I: Flatearthers and Other Dreams

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Publishing in the new millennium

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Minding the Basics

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The Long Ago

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Tija

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Prelude to a Battle of Wits

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That Perfect Summer

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The Perils of Rhyme

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IE6 + Neopoet.com = disaster

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400 Rods Above Mount Tija

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Friday, April 11 Brain Dump

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Beneath a New Moon, Gently

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Among the Irish

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In the Attic

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Flatearthers and Other Dreams

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Each Day I Rise and Count the Sun

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On the Road to Shrantashol

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Enderal

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What Fevers Wrought

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Conversations with a Man on a Toadstool

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Spewgilist.com

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One Evening

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When the Sky is but an Illusion

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