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Monthly Archives: May 2016

Poems blooming in Verse-Virtual

Posted on May 18, 2016 by BobknoxMay 18, 2016

As the month advances I discover more poetic flowers blooming in the May’s Verse-Virtual.com, the online poetry journal: The poetry of great truths in J.C. Elkin’s moving and formally appealing poem “Keening for Eve” found in lines such as: “…if … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged flowers, gardening, Mary Shelley, online poetry journal, poem, poetry, Verse-Virtual | Leave a reply

Libraries and Book Clubs

Posted on May 16, 2016 by BobknoxMay 16, 2016

My thanks to the Carver Library for hosting “Suosso’s Lane” and me on a beautiful Saturday afternoon (May 14). We had a lively question and answer session after I finally finished talking. I met a couple of folks there who … Continue reading →

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I’ll Be Speaking in Carver this Saturday, May 14

Posted on May 11, 2016 by BobknoxMay 11, 2016

I’ll be speaking about “Suosso’s Lane,” a novel about the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and reading a few excerpts at the Carver Library, 2 Meadowbrook Way (Carver MA) on Saturday, May 14, at 1 p.m. in the large meeting room. Here’s the … Continue reading →

Posted in Suosso's Lane | Tagged 1920s, Anarchists, criminal justice, Immigration, Italians, Old Colony Memorial, Plymouth, Sacco, Sacco and Vanzetti, Suosso's Lane, Trial of the Centuryi, Vanzetti | Leave a reply

Poems from Prompts in National Poetry Month

Posted on May 8, 2016 by BobknoxMay 8, 2016

April was National Poetry Month, a nice designation but nothing near the impact of a national holiday. Emily Dickinson’s birthday maybe? Or Walt Whitman’s?           Still, poets get excited about it in sort of busman’s holiday way. Let’s write more … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged geological terms, National Poetry Month, poems, poetry, poetry prompts | Leave a reply

Garden Poems Flower in Verse-Virtual online journal

Posted on May 5, 2016 by BobknoxMay 5, 2016

The theme for the May edition of Verse-Virtual was gardening (or gardens, or flowers), though the online poetry journal is always open to poems on any subject. I am a contributing editor for Verse-Virtual.com, an online poetry journal that publishes … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged Dick Allen, Firestone Feinberg, flowers, gardening, May, online poetry journal, poems, poetry, Robert Knox | Leave a reply

May Day Celebrates the Roots of the Eight-hour Day

Posted on May 2, 2016 by BobknoxMay 2, 2016

Today is Primo Maggio (the first day of May), celebrated as Labor Day in much of the world, though not in the United States, to remember the achievements of the trade union  movement in bettering the lives of working people. … Continue reading →

Posted in Suosso's Lane | Tagged Anarchists, Eight-hour day, Haymarket Martyrs, Haymarket Riot, Labor Day, May Day, Sacco and Vanzetti | Leave a reply

Novel Stirs Immigration Memories

Posted on May 1, 2016 by BobknoxMay 1, 2016

Sixty-five people turned up for my Authors Series program in Kingston last week, certainly more than I anticipated. It was a great evening, though I botched the challenge of holding a microphone in one hand while speaking — especially while … Continue reading →

Posted in Suosso's Lane | Tagged Immigration, Italian Exclusion Act, Italian horned bread, North Plymouth, Plymouth, Red Scare, Sacco, Sacco and Vanzetti, Vanzetti | Leave a reply

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My new poetry chapbook, “Cocktails in the Wild,” is out!

My new poetry chapbook “Cocktails in the Wild,” published by Unsolicited Press, is available at http://www.unsolicitedpress.com/store/p139/robertknoxpoetry. Poems include “Cocktails on the Balcony,” “Voluptuous,” “The Perfect Candidate,” “The Paradise of Birds,” and others.

Three new poems on the subject of poetry are up in April on Verse-Virtual.com http://www.verse-virtual.com/robert-knox-2018-april.html

My essay on repealing the Second Amendment appears on Medium at https://medium.com/@bobknox/in-dysfunctional-countries-thousands-suffer-from-the-rule-of-ak-47-and-then-there-s-the-strange-623afae9f38a

Three of my poems were published recently by the Blue Nib at http://magazine.thebluenib.com/article/poetry-by-robert-knox-ash-slade/

 

story on working at Riker’s Island — where I “woked” to who goes to prison in America — is online at http://beneaththerainbow.com/behind-bars/

Three poems of mine on the theme of “karma” are up on Verse-Virtual.com, the online poetry journal, in the February 2018 issue http://www.verse-virtual.com/robert-knox-2018-february.html

How do you manage to keep order and get down to real teaching when you’re a new substitute teacher and don’t know any of your students? To make matters worse, the regular teachers are on strike. My short story “Back to School” is up on the online journal “Beneath the Rainbow.” The site provided an attractive design for my story and generous bio space for me. http://beneaththerainbow.com/back-to-school/

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