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The Poetry Society of Texas is a member of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Inc. and an affiliate of the Academy of American Poets. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation.
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#Celebration! I’ve been Poetry Editor for @texasobserver.org for a year! Please, please, share, repost and read up on the #Poetry section of the magazine! I will create a thread of the poems that have made it into the mag while I’ve been editor! #PoetrySky www.texasobserver.org/topics/poetry/
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In #poetry: I remember the river, flowing so peacefully and slowly you could almost miss its motion
Poem for the Guadalupe River from a previous Mystic camper
I remember the river, flowing so peacefully and slowly you could almost miss its motion I remember the river, mirroring the vastness of the starry sky stretched far beyond the nestled valley I rememb...
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Some will say that writing poetry isn’t anything to do with resistance- but history tells us poets are the first ones, killed, expelled, kidnapped or prosecuted. #Poets, keep writing. #Poetry #LatinxLetters
America has never been broke. It’s just violently anti-poor. Troops in LA cost $134M — the price of 44 million school lunches. But sure, let’s keep pretending the issue is lazy parents and not a government that eats kids for breakfast.
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Alamo Area Poets of Texas President, Antonia Murguia amurguia3@gmail.com alamoareapoetstexas@gmail.com and Facebook Time: 2-4, first Saturday of every month September-May at the Tobin Library! O...
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