Thank you to RigoArtist and Black Door '74 Band for sending me the new album! It was so great to collaborate on Volume 3, Issue 1. I can’t wait to listen to the full album!

#NewMusic #NewAlbum #musiclover #WritingLife #writerslift

Not all music legends are stars. They own the local music store. They jam in their living rooms and play in their high school bands. You can read about them in 3 poems from Leonard Kress:

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Photo: Lennart Lundh

#PoetryMonth #MusicIsLife #PoetryIsLife

Today we present 3 poems from ChristineMarieLimMagpile. Her words give life to 3 Philippine musical instruments, reminding Filipino youth of their heritage. You can read them here:

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#MusicMonday #PoetryMonth #Philippines #filipino #poetrylovers

Growing up, poet Joseph A Farina found redemption listening to Motown and rock n roll. It was “the guitar gods” who “baptized” him “with their power chords.” Read 3 of his poems here:

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#motown #rocknroll #PoetryMonth

guitar in a velvet case
the only songs she knows
by heart
~Randy Brooks

Randy Brooks is an English professor who specializes in haiku and Japanese poetics. You can read his poetry sequence here:

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#NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #haiku

Fado is a Portuguese genre of music that depicts the melancholy of everyday life, but for Eric D. Goodman, it is nourishment for his soul. Click below to read his poem “Fado”:

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#Portugal #Portuguesa #music #poetry lovers #poetry #writerscommunity

OUT NOW! NY author Nicole Haroutunian knows how to keep her audience engaged - whether, as a museum educator, it's the groups she helps find a deeper connection with art, or readers of her fiction. Her new novel-in-stories is CHOOSE THIS NOW (Noemi Press). shortstorytoday.com

In Nicholas Baldwin’s “Classical Hearts,” a teenage boy embarks on a passionate journey into love. He is smitten, he is obsessed. She asks him to help her sing, and he vows to never let go. Read it below:

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#poetrycommunity #guitarist #poetrylovers

Linda M. Crate never wanted to play the piano—she wanted the guitar, but her teacher had different plans. Well Linda, it is never to late to learn something new.

Read 3 of her poems below:

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#music #NationalPoetryMonth #yolo

What is it that women really want?

In today’s poem, Laura Sergeant shares the objects of her desire. Her list might surprise you. Read it below:

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#PoemADay #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity #GirlPower #guitar ist #guitar #fender

We have a bit of Canadiana for you today!

Shawn McGrory uses poetry to pay tribute to hockey legends and to singer Stompin’ Tom Connors. Read 2 poems here:

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Photo credit: S. McGrory

#NationalPoetryMonth #canada #HockeyTwitter

Guitarists often get all the glory, but in her poem “Island Luthier,” Marianne Tefft pays tribute to the artisans who make our music possible.

You can read two of her guitar poems here:

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Photo: Lennart Lundh

#NationalPoetryMonth #guitarist #Poetry

Cynthia Gallaher is a Chicago-based poet. You can read 3 of her poems below, including an ekphrastic piece based on Picasso’s “The Old Guitarist”:

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#picasso #art #art istsontwitter #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryMonth

We are a lit journal dedicated to music.

Today’s featured poems pay tribute to Jimi Hendrix and Robert Johnson. Both were penned by poet and editor Matthew Johnson.

Read them here:

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#music #WritingCommunity #guitar

“Stomp the pedal
to full up and on
and put hair on the melody”
~Michael Penny, “Distortion: A Guitar Lesson”

Read the full poem here:

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#guitarplayer #guitarist #rocknroll #music #poetrylovers #writerscommunity #PoemADay

Submissions will close on April 16th! Send us your writing now! For full submission details, please click the link below:

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#WritingCommunity #writersoftwitter #writerslift #music #Paris #Paris 2024

Don't give up!

Johnny Smith was a jazz guitarist. After a family tragedy struck, he left the glamour of New York to raise his beloved daughter.

You can read about it in Brooke Clark’s poem “Domestic Man”:

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#Jazz #music #poetry #dads #FamilyTime

Victor Kennedy is a poet, musician, and academic based in Slovenia.

His poem “The Man with the Silent Guitar” is about his experiences as a musician in contemporary Slovenia:

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In the photo: Victor’s rock band Invite

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#MusicMonday #poetry

Mark Wilson’s poem “Saraswati Festival” pays homage to the Hindu goddess of music, art and literature, and to all artists who create from their souls:

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#ArtistsOfTwitter #music #poetry #poetry lovers #writersoftwitter #spiritualknowledge #spirituality