#Jack B. Bedell

[susancondonwriter]

Eat The Storms

Three of my poems are included in the latest episode of Eat The Storms. #Poetry #Podcast #EatTheStorms

Delighted to have three poems included in the latest episode of the wonderful poetry podcast Eat The Storms. This episode, produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly, first aired on Saturday 3rd December 2022. So grab a cuppa – or something stronger! – sit back, relax and as soon as you’re ready, click HERE to listen to poems from: Nina ParmenterJack B BedellKerry DarbishireMax O’DonohoeSusan…

[finishinglinepress]

FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Little Hiroshimas by Kip Knott

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Kip Knott is a writer, teacher, photographer, and part-time art dealer living in Delaware, Ohio. His writing and photography have appeared in Barren, Beloit Fiction Journal, Emrys Journal, The Gettysburg Review, Poet Lore, The Sun, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He is the author seven previous #poetry chapbooks, a full-length collection of short stories, and three full-length collections of poetry, the most recent being The Other Side of Who I Am (Kelsay Books, 2023). To read more of his work, go to www.kipknott.com.

PRAISE FOR Little Hiroshimas by Kip Knott

I am always amazed when I step into a museum and every wall becomes, at once, a window and a mirror. Really, that’s the gift all art provides—to show us the world and to show us ourselves IN the world in the same instance. That’s precisely the gift of Kip Knott’s new ekphrastic collection, Little Hiroshimas. Page by page, these poems demolish and rebuild, wreck and heal, with color and song and memory. More than all that, they stand in front of this world, full of paintings and pain, and help us blink, line after line, until we can “pull something / tangible out from the dark.”

–Jack B. Bedell, author of Against the Woods’ Dark Trunks, Poet Laureate of Louisiana, 2017-2019

Kip Knott’s Little Hiroshimas is an ode to ekphrasis and proof that poetry can reanimate and recontextualize the visual arts. In the opening poem, Knott writes “Every artist destroys / one thing to create another,” and this chapbook puts this theory into practice. Each poem in this collection takes a knife to a canvas, slits it open to find the untold story hidden inside. Knott is a champion of art’s expansiveness and fluidity, how each interaction with a piece of art is also an opportunity for dialogue, for witnessing, for transformation.

–Taylor Byas, author of Bloodwarm and I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

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[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 1.21

Beer Birthdays

Gottlieb Storz (1852)

Ludwig Thoma (1867)

Grigori Rasputin, politician, "the mad monk" (1869)

Jinx Falkenberg, the 1st Miss Rheingold (1919)

Tom Bedell (1948)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Ethan Allen; Revolutionary, leader of Vermont's Green Mountain Boys (1738)

Roger Nash Baldwin; founded ACLU (1884)

"Wolfman" Jack; Radio DJ (1939)

Jack Nicklaus; golfer (1940)

Telly Savalas; actor (1924)

Famous Birthdays

Paul Allen; Microsoft co-founder (1953)

Robby Benson; actor (1956)

Konrad Emil Bloch; biochemist (1912)

Emma Bunton; singer, "Spice Girl" (1976)

Barney Clark; 1st artificial heart recipient (1921)

Geena Davis; actor (1957)

Mac Davis; country singer, actor (1942)

Christian Dior; fashion designer (1905)

Placido Domingo; opera tenor (1941)

Jill Eikenberry; actor (1947)

John Fitch; steamboat inventor (1743)

Lola Flores; singer, actor (1925)

John Fremont; explorer, politician (1813)

Richie Havens; rock singer (1941)

Benny Hill; English comedian (1925)

Jimmy Ibbotson; country singer (1947)

Ito; Spanish footballer (1975)

"Stonewall" Jackson; Union general (1824)

Jam Master Jay; musician,, "Run DMC" (1965)

Jeff Koons; artist (1955)

Ken Leung; actor (1970)

J. Carrol Naish; actor (1897)

Billy Ocean; R&B singer (1950)

Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon; Houston Rockets C (1963)

Cat Power; pop singer (1972)

Steve Reeves; actor, bodybuilder (1926)

Paul Scofield; actor (1922)

Edwin Starr; rock singer (1941)

Karl Wallenda; acrobat, circus performer (1905)

William Wrigley III; chewing gum magnate (1933)

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“OPIUM IS FOUND IN LAUNDRY AND OWNER ARRESTED,” Hamilton Spectator. March 5, 1931. Page 7. ---- Lee Wong Committed For Trial To-day ---- Abduction Case is Sent To Juvenile Court ---- Youth is Accused of Stealing Club Bag ---- Lee Wong, West avenue north was before Magistrate Burbidge in police court this morning on charge of possessing illegally, and was committed for trial on this count.

Edward Murphy, K.C. Toronto, acted for the crown, while Richard Greer, KC, of Toronto, and Lewis were the defense lawyers. 

Sergeant F. W Zaneth, of the RCMP. and Detective Jack Thompson made a search of the premises on February 5, and the Dominion officer found a tin containing a small quantity of opium among the parcels of laundry. No pipes or other articles to use the drug were found, however. A quantity of American cigarets that had apparently been smuggled, were also found in the laundry. Sent to Other Courts George J. Miller. 306 Royal apartments, was charged with assaulting and beating his wife, Kathleen, and the case was transferred to the domestic relations court next Tuesday afternoon. Bail was set at $400.

The case of Frank Ashton, Vancouver who is charged with abduction and also contributing to juvenile delinquency, was sent to the juvenile court sitting this afternoon.

William Bedell, 118 Young street, charged with permitting drunkenness, was told to appear in the liquor court on Tuesday at 11.30.

Lad Arraigned John Brown, 80 Burlington street east, age 17, appeared on a charge of stealing a club-beg containing wearing apparel, the value of which was 2.75. The young lad was only arrested a few minutes before he appeared in court and be didn't seem to know how to elect, so J. B. Chambers, who happened to be in court, volunteered to defend him. An adjournment defense to be prepared.

Vags Sentenced Frank Launders, of Fruitland, who on Tuesday was told by the magistrate to leave the city, was found begging on the streets again and to-day he answered to another vagrancy charge. He was sentenced to six months determinate and 25 months indeterminate at Burwash.

Frank Benn, Toronto, was also sentenced to from six to 12 months in the reformatory when convicted of begging. 

Hamiton Fraught, as 18-year-old vagrant, was placed on probation for two years and told to get home to North Bay. 

Adjournments Fred Higgs, 53 New street, charged by the Hyatt Roofing company with false pretense, granted an adjournment until Friday The crown alleges that Biggs forged orders on the Hyatt company Biggs was granted bail of $2000.

Stanley Thin, Clyde street, answered to a ticket scalping charges, and because Harry Hagel, his counsel, was absent from the city, he was granted an adjournment until Tuesday Officers Maddock, and Nesbitt, who were on duty at the arena last evening, claim that Thin was selling 37c tickets for $1 and he had 17 tickets in his possession when arrested. Bail was set at $50.

Deputy's Plea Successful Marion Hannaford, 30 Inchbury street, appeared on a vagrancy charge again today and in view of recognisance the girl was under from previous conviction the magistrate was about to sentence her when the deputy-chief entered such strong plea on the girl's behalf that his worship placed stricter terms on her probation and allowed her to go. Mr. Goodman said he was sure the girt could be made to live a normal life if she was placed under strict supervision.

[florriescreamlagoon]

She speaks to me when she’s asleep.

Her lips move but do not mean

anything against the dark,

each word air on my fingertips,

each breath a twitch in her chest.

At night I am another boundary

containing her in her sleep

like the blue linen ducks flying

beneath her spreading hair, the sheets

twisting between her glowing legs,

the wooden frame holding her

above the cold wooden floor.

I watch her when she cannot know.

Tonight I watch her hands weave

a winding net over us.

They float above the lines of her stomach

tying each knot and squaring it off

until the room is filled with twine.

Soon she’ll be the fisherman

seining air for loaves of fish.

She casts her net with arms spread out,

feet together, hair swirling.

Outside the water cracks

against the glass to catch

her throw. It gives up its form

to take her net and washes over

into the room teeming with fish

and bread, thick with what she wants.

I watch her cast for hours and learn

to live beneath her grey water.

She spills redfish at my feet

but I tell her I’m not hungry.

Her lips still move for me as she pulls

the net toward us. I lie down

among her piles of bread.

Jack B. Bedell

[yespoetry]

Jack B. Bedell: You’ve Run Out of Time

There Is No Train but the Tracks Will Lead You There

                                                        —Honey Island

  No need

                                for maps or guides to find

the swamp’s heart. Everything that touches

                                this mud leaves its own prints

to follow—eagles, nutria, black bear, gators—

                                all claws to mark your way.

Trust your own nose to tell you

                                            what smells

should not be followed. If you see gray fur

                                                        caught on a palmetto frond,

                                or count four toes on any webbed tracks,

                                                                    find the sun in the sky

                                                        right away. West of dead center

                                                                                            means

                                you’ve run out of time. Move

                    in the direction any line on your palm

leads. Do not linger near shadows

                                                                                            or look straight

                                                        into any yellow light.

                                                                                                        Remember,

almost everything where you are can outrun you,

and what can’t is drifting just below the surface

                                                                                of the water you just used

                                                                                            to cool your face.

  Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. His latest collections are Elliptic (Yellow Flag Press, 2016), Revenant (Blue Horse Press, 2016), and No Brother, This Storm (Mercer University Press, fall 2018). He has recently been appointed by Governor John Bel Edwards to serve as Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-2019.   

[davidjhiggins]

WICKERPEDIA, ed. Kristin Garth & Nick Morrissey

WICKERPEDIA, ed. Kristin Garth & Nick Morrissey

Mixing perspectives on the power of belief, both good and bad, to shape lives with attempts to capture the experience of believing, the Garth and Morrissey create an experience as filled with poetry, awe, and horror as the films that inspired it. … “”

[for-fox-sakess]

Thoughts of Thoughts

Facetime - Tana Mongeau

Get Better - Scotty Sire

I’m with you - Vance Joy

Jealous - Labrinth

Lose control - Russ

Idfc - Blackbear

Jumanji - B young

Bouff Daddy - J Hus

Fine girl - ZieZie

With you - Jessica Simpson

Tip it back - Jaira Burns

Go to town - Doja Cat

In my head - Rylan James

I wish you were here - HRVY

I choose you - Caleb James

Tomorrow Night - Loote

Juicy - Deja Cat

Knees - Bebe Rexha

Yo Darlin - NSG Geko

Vice Versa - One Acen, WSTRN

Best life - Hardy Caprio, One Acen

Long time - Belly Squad

Gemini Feed - BANKS

Tie me down - Gryffin ft Elley Duhé

6:30 - Geko, NSG

Paris in the Rain - Lauv

Somebody Else - Vérité

You make me - Chealsea Cutler 

Both of us - Yellow Claw, STORi

Wesley’s Theory - Kendrick Lamar

Gemini - Tyla Yaweh

Do U wanna? - Mike Posner

The man who can’t be moved - The Script

She bangs - Ricky Martin (English version)

Peaches and Cream - 112

Boyfriend - Nitty

Kiss me - Sixpence none the richer

Gemini - Sam Williams

It wasn’t me - Shaggy 

Never let you go - Third Eye Blind

Tispy - J-Kwon

Nasty girl - Nitty

Sesame Syrup - Cigarettes After Sex

South of the border - Ed Sheeran

Twerk it - V.I.C

Talk to ya - HRVY

Boom - Zane Hijazi

Shake your bon-bon - Ricky Martin

Let’s get nasty - Nitty

In betweenin - AUSTN

Mind games - Ren

So Close - NOTD

Summer on you - PRETTYMUCH

Daydreaming - Jack & Jack

Love ride- Christian French

Pumpkin Pie - Ryan Caraveo

Selfish - Jeremy Zucker

Mess her up - Amy Shark 

Congratulations - Hey Violet

Think before I talk - Astrid S

It’s Official - Nitty

Daddy - Blueface 

Look what I’ve become - Mike Posner

You were good to me - Jeremy Zucker, Chelsea Cutler

Lullaby - Scotty Sire

James Has Changed - Pheobe Ryan

Way to break my heart - Ed Sheeran

Feelings - Lauv

Tomorrow - MIKA

Aquemini - Marc E Bassy

Make you come - Geko, Ramriddlz

When I’m with u - Tritonal, Maia Wright

Coast is clear - Skillex

Rainbow - Kesha

Think about us - Little Mix, ty Dolla $igh

Your song - Cameron Bedell

Go Loko - YG, Tyga, Jon Z

Sad Forever - Lauv

Rescue Me - Onerepublic

Don’t change - Why don’t we

If you don’t call - Sol

Dirty side - walker hayes

Tot ou tard - Ell Rose

Just friends - Ally Barron

Million yers ago - Adele

You are with me - Andrew Marcus

Pick U up - Foster the People

Love someone - Lukas Graham

Better with you - Jesse McCartney

Found you - Austin Mahone

I wanna know - NOTD, Bae Miller

Once in a while - Timeflies

Are you with me - Lost frequencies

Told you so - HRVY

Call you mine - The Chainsmokers

Girl like you - Jason Aldeen

Relationship goals - aberANDRE

Kinda love - Olivier Dion

Sans soda & sans glacon - CHATON

Faded VF - Brandon Mig

Not in that way - Sam smith

Coaster - Khalid 

[nurtureliterary]

Diluvial

Jack B. Bedell

How can you not love a hard rain for the breeze it brings, even when you live downriver and know one day soon all that water will swell beyond the river’s banks, crawl over the levee to settle just below your roofline, washing over the school where you learned to read and the grocery store that served warm cracklins after Easter every year and the plot where your folks are buried, all of it left clean now by this storm and hushed like wind through a stand of pine?

Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. Jack’s work has appeared in HAD, Pidgeonholes, Okay Donkey, Heavy Feather, Cheap Pop, and other journals. His latest collection is Color All Maps New (Mercer University Press, 2021). He served as Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-2019.

[letters-from-her]

But you don’t have to become art to hunger me, nor do I need metaphor to see you as love. — Jack B. Bedell

[dk-thrive]

the sky can be is eclipsed by something as neatly stitched as this little patch of earth

It is the composition I am forever walking by moves me most when I finally stop to look. What is it turning us outside ourselves, what hook hooks us and pulls us from whatever sky

we have come to inhabit as though we love there and only there? It is a switch after all, this hook. It shifts horizons. Heavy mauve

the sky can be is eclipsed by something as neatly stitched as this little patch of earth.

~ Darrell Bourque, from “Dürer’s Meditation on Small Things: The Great Piece of Turf, 1503,” Call and Response: Conversations in Verse, Jack B. Bedell and Darrell Bourque (Texas Review Press, 2009) (via Memory's Landscape)

[wincatcherses]

Borradores de la Liga Nacional: Selecciones e información adicional

Aquí está la lista de las selecciones de cada equipo de la Liga Nacional en las cinco rondas (más las selecciones de emparejamiento de compensación de agente libre y las dos Rondas de equilibrio competitivo) del borrador 2020. Se incluye información sobre el precio de las máquinas tragamonedas y, si está disponible, el monto de la bonificación del jugador, así como el grupo de gasto de bonificación en borrador total de cada club. Si un jugador no firma con el equipo, el precio del tragamonedas adjunto al punto de draft del jugador se elimina del grupo del equipo. Exceder el límite del grupo de draft en un 10 por ciento o menos del valor del pool le costará al equipo un impuesto del 75 por ciento sobre el excedente, así como la pérdida de una futura selección de primera ronda si exceden el pool entre un 5-10 por ciento. Se aplica un impuesto del 100 por ciento sobre el excedente si un equipo excede su grupo en más del 10 por ciento del valor total del grupo, con multas de selección más altas: una futura selección de primera y segunda ronda si el gasto adicional de un equipo cae entre 10-15 por ciento del límite del grupo y dos selecciones futuras de primera ronda si el grupo supera en más del 15 por ciento. No es necesario decir que sería impactante si algún equipo superara el umbral del cinco por ciento, aunque superar el límite del grupo en un 0-5 por ciento no es infrecuente. Para mayor referencia, aquí está el resumen de los borradores de firmas para los equipos de la Liga Americana. Estas listas se actualizarán con frecuencia a medida que más jugadores firmen antes de la fecha límite del 1 de agosto, ¡así que mantenga las publicaciones marcadas para futuras actualizaciones! Bravos (grupo de draft de $ 4,127,800) Jared Shuster, 1.a ronda, 25 en general. Valor de la ranura: $ 2,740,300 (firmado por $ 2,197,500) Jesse Franklin, 3-97. Valor de la ranura: $ 599.1K (firmado por $ 497.5K) Spencer Strider, 4-126. Valor de la ranura: $ 451.8K (firmado por $ 451.8K) Bryce Elder, 5-156. Valor de la ranura: $ 336.6K (firmado por $ 850K) Gasto total: $ 3,996,800 Cerveceros (grupo de proyectos de $ 6,078,300) Garrett Mitchell, primera ronda, vigésimo general. Valor de la ranura: $ 3,242,900 Freddy Zamora, 2-53. Valor de la ranura: $ 1,370,400 (firmado por $ 1.15MM) Zavier Warren, 3-92. Valor de la ranura: $ 637.6K (firmado) Joey Wiemer, 4-121. Valor de la ranura: $ 473.7K (firmado por $ 150K) Hayden Cantrelle, 5-151. Valor de la ranura: $ 353.7K (firmado por $ 300K) Cardenales ($ 7,901,100 draft pool) Jordan Walker, primera ronda, 21º general. Valor de la ranura: $ 3,132,300 (firmado por $ 2.9MM) Masyn Winn, 2-54. Valor de la ranura: $ 1,338,500 (firmado por $ 2.1MM) Tink Por lo tanto, Competitivo Balance B ronda, 63 en general. Valor de la ranura: $ 1,076,300 (firmado por $ 1,115,000) Alec Burleson, ronda de compensación de agente libre, 70º en general. Valor de la ranura: $ 906.8K (firmado por $ 700K) Levi Prater, 3-93. Valor de la ranura: $ 627.9K (firmado por $ 575K) Ian Bedell, 4-122. Valor de la ranura: $ 469K (firmado por $ 800K) LJ Jones IV, 5-152. Valor de la ranura: $ 350.3K (firmado por $ 100K) Total gastado: $ 8.29MM. Los cardenales pagarán $ 291,675 en impuestos por excedente por exceder el límite del proyecto de grupo. Cachorros (grupo de draft de $ 6,721,600) Ed Howard, 1ª ronda, 16º general. Valor de la ranura: $ 3,745,500 (firmado por $ 3.75MM) Burl Carraway, 2-51. Valor de la ranura: $ 1,436,900 (firmado por $ 1.05MM) Jordan Nwogu, 3-88. Valor de la ranura: $ 678.6K Luke Little, 4-117. Valor de la ranura: $ 492.7K (firmado por $ 492.7K) Koen Moreno, 5-147. Valor de la ranura: $ 367.9K (firmado por $ 900K) Diamondbacks (grupo de draft de $ 7,184,900) Bryce Jarvis, primera ronda, 18º general. Valor de la ranura: $ 3,481,300 (firmado por $ 2.65MM) Slade Cecconi, Balance Competitivo Ronda A, 33º en general. Valor de la ranura: $ 2,202,200 Liam Norris, 3-90. Valor de la ranura: $ 657.6K (firmado por $ 800K) A.J. Vukovich, 4-119. Valor de la ranura: $ 483K (firmado por $ 1.25MM) Brandon Pfaadt, 5-149. Valor de la ranura: $ 360.8K (firmado por $ 100K) Dodgers (grupo de draft de $ 5,928,400) Bobby Miller, primera ronda, 29º en general. Valor de la ranura: $ 2,424,600 (firmado por $ 2.2MM) Landon Knack, 2-60. Valor de la ranura: $ 1,157,400 (firmado por $ 715K) Clayton Beeter, Balance Competitivo Ronda B, 66º en general. Valor de la ranura: $ 1,003,300 (firmado) Jake Vogel, 3-100. Valor de la ranura: $ 581.6K (firmado por $ 1,622,500) Carson Taylor, 4-130. Valor de la ranura: $ 434.3K (firmado por $ 400K) Gavin Stone, 5-159. Valor de la ranura: $ 327.2K (firmado por $ 100K) Gigantes (grupo de draft de $ 9,231,800) Patrick Bailey, primera ronda, 13º general. Valor de la ranura: $ 4,197,300 (firmado por $ 3.8MM) Casey Schmitt, 2-49. Valor de la ranura: $ 1,507,600 (firmado por $ 1,147,500) Nick Swiney, ronda de compensación de agente libre, 67º en general. Valor de la ranura: $ 976.7K (firmado por $ 1.2MM) Jimmy Glowenke, ronda de compensación de agente libre, 68º en general. Valor de la ranura: $ 953.1K (firmado por $ 600K) Kyle Harrison, 3-85. Valor de la ranura: $ 710.7K (firmado por $ 2.5MM) R.J. Dabovich, 4-114. Valor de la ranura: $ 507.4K Ryan Murphy, 5-144. Valor de la ranura: $ 379K (firmado por $ 25K) Marlins (grupo de draft de $ 12,016,900) Max Meyer, primera ronda, tercera general. Valor de la ranura: $ 7,221,200 (firmado por $ 6.7MM) Daxton Fulton, 2-40. Valor de la ranura: $ 1,856,700 Kyle Nicolas, Balance Competitivo Ronda B, 61º en general. Valor de la ranura: $ 1,129,700 Zach McCambley, 3-75. Valor de la ranura: $ 831.1K Jake Eder, 4-104. Valor de la ranura: $ 560K Kyle Hurt, 5-134. Valor de la ranura: $ 418.2K Mets (fondo de draft de $ 7,174,700) Pete Crow-Armstrong, 1ª ronda, 19º general. Valor de la ranura: $ 3,359,000 (firmado por $ 3,359,000) J.T. Ginn, 2-52. Valor de la ranura: $ 1,403,200 (firmado por $ 2.9MM) Isaiah Greene, ronda de compensación de agente libre, 69º en general. Valor de la ranura: $ 929.8K (firmado por $ 850K) Anthony Walters, 3-91. Valor de la ranura: $ 647.3K (firmado por $ 20K) Matthew Dyer, 4-120. Valor de la ranura: $ 478.3K (firmado por $ 350K) Eric Orze, 5-150. Valor de la ranura: $ 357.1K (firmado por $ 20K) Total gastado: $ 7,499,000. Los Mets pagarán $ 243,225 en impuestos por excedente por exceder su límite de borrador del grupo. Nacionales (grupo de reclutamiento de $ 6,647,700) Cade Cavalli, 1ª ronda, 22º general. Valor de la ranura: $ 3.027MM (firmado por $ 3.027MM) Cole Henry, 2-55. Valor de la ranura: $ 1.307MM (firmado por $ 2MM) Samuel Infante, ronda de compensación de agente libre, 71º en general. Valor de la ranura: $ 884.2K (firmado por $ 1MM) Holden Powell, 3-94. Valor de la ranura: $ 618.2K (firmado por $ 500K) Brady Lindsly, 4-123. Valor de la ranura: $ 464.5K (firmado por $ 20K) Mitchell Parker, 5-153. Valor de la ranura: $ 346.8K (firmado por $ 100K) Gasto total: $ 6,647,000 Padres (fondo de $ 10,674,000) Robert Hassell III, primera ronda, octavo en general. Valor de la ranura: $ 5,176,900 (firmado por $ 4.3MM) Justin Lange, Balance Competitivo Ronda A, 34º en general. Valor de la ranura: $ 2,148,100 (firmado por $ 2MM) Owen Caissie, 2-45. Valor de la ranura: $ 1,650,200 (firmado por $ 1,200,004) Cole Wilcox, 3-80. Valor de la ranura: $ 767.8K (firmado por $ 3.3MM) Levi Thomas, 4-109. Valor de la ranura: $ 533K (firmado por $ 80K) Jagger Haynes, 5-139. Valor de la ranura: $ 398K (firmado por $ 300K) Total gastado: $ 11,180,004. Padres pagará $ 379,503 en impuestos por excedente por exceder su límite de proyecto de grupo. Filis (fondo común de $ 5,444,200) Piratas (grupo de draft de $ 11,154,500) Nick Gonzales, primera ronda, séptimo general. Valor de la ranura: $ 5,432,400 (firmado por $ 5,432,400) Carmen Mlodzinski, Balance Competitivo Ronda A, 31º en general. Valor de la ranura: $ 2,312,000 (firmado por $ 2.05MM) Jared Jones, 2-44. Valor de la ranura: $ 1,689,500 (firmado por $ 2.2MM) Nick García, 3-79. Valor de la ranura: $ 780.4K (firmado por $ 1.2MM) Jack Hartman, 4-108. Valor de la ranura: $ 538.2K (firmado por $ 60K) Logan Hofmann, 5-138. Valor de la ranura: $ 402K (firmado por $ 125K) Gasto total: $ 11,067,400 Rojos (grupo de draft de $ 8,552,100) Austin Hendrick, 1ª ronda, 12º general. Valor de la ranura: $ 4,366,400 (firmado por $ 4MM) Christian Roa, 2-48. Valor de la ranura: $ 1,543,600 (firmado por $ 1,543,600) Jackson Miller, Balance Competitivo Ronda B, 104º en general. Valor de la ranura: $ 1,025,100 Bryce Bonnin, 3-84. Valor de la ranura: $ 721.9K (firmado por $ 700K) Mac Wainwright, 4-113. Valor de la ranura: $ 512.4K (firmado por $ 512.4K) Joe Boyle, 5-143. Valor de la ranura: $ 382.7K (firmado por $ 500K) Total gastado: Rockies (grupo de draft de $ 10,339,700) Zac Veen, primera ronda, noveno general. Valor de la ranura: $ 4,949,100 (firmado por $ 5MM) Drew Romo, Balance Competitivo Ronda A, 35º en general. Valor de la ranura: $ 2,095,800 (firmado por $ 2,095,800) Chris McMahon, 2-46. Valor de la ranura: $ 1,617,400 (firmado por $ 1,637,400) Sam Weatherly, 3-81. Valor de la ranura: $ 755.3K (firmado por $ 755.3K) Caso Williams, 4-110. Valor de la ranura: $ 527.8K (firmado por $ 450K) Jack Blomgren, 5-140. Valor de la ranura: $ 394.3K (firmado por $ 394.3K) Gasto total: $ 10,332,800

from Noticias Wincatchers https://noticias.wincatchers.com/2020/07/06/borradores-de-la-liga-nacional-selecciones-e-informacion-adicional-2/

[finishinglinepress]

FLP POETRY BOOK OF THE DAY: Jupiter Moments by Barry Ballard

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JUPITER MOMENTS: represents those “moments of transcendence” in our lives that bring #hope and #rebirth to us in a seemingly hopeless world. Using the blank-verse #sonnet form; Ballard uses the sonnet as an “IF-THEN-CLAUSE;” if the Octave is true; then the Sestet must be true. These sonnets by Ballard mark a path of light for us, in a seemingly dim world.

Barry Ballard was born in Holt, Michigan. After returning from Vietnam, he studied theology and philosophy, receiving an M.A. from Texas Christian University in 1983. Barry Ballard’s sonnets have appeared in Smartish Pace, Rosebud, Hollins Critic, and National Forum. Recipient of the “Explorations award for Literature” from the University of Alaska and the “Boswell Poetry Price” from Texas Christian University, Ballard also published five additional chapbook collections, four of which are award winners: Green Tombs To Jupiter (Snail’s Pace Press Prize for 2000), A Time To Reinvent(Creative Ash Press Prize for 2001), First Probe To Antarctica (Bright Hill Press Prize for 2002), and Plowing To The End of the Road (Finishing Line Press Award for 2003). He lives and writes from Fort Worth, Texas.

PRAISE FOR Jupiter Moments by Barry Ballard

“That centered place from which Ballard writes sonnets,… a spiritual journey that all serious readers are willing to take… Being on that path though, finds that it is well-worn and with many forks. Inspired reading!”

–Stellasue Lee, Editor, Rattle

“Barry Ballard is one of our most gifted sonneteers. He might be the last poet left who constantly worships in the temple of the sonnet.”

–Virgil Suarez, Florida State University

“In this deft and soulful collection, Barry Ballard writes with a sculptor’s care, a sense of each line as a palpable, meaningfully weighted and invited, marked by imaginative wit, beautiful in itself, and essential to the visionary whole. It is a testament to his art that the voice never sacrifices its ring of authenticity and meditative grace to the hesitations of form, that the current ideas sings with such a convincing and subtle music.”

–Bruce Bond, American Literary Review

“These days, seeing a well-wrought sonnet on the page is about as rare as seeing a mint-condition ’62 Corvette on the highway. Ballard’s is an art just that beautiful. Whether exploring the dangers of the South Pole or simply fishing for the right words, these poems strike straight to the truth. You just can’t go wrong with craft of this vintage, or a poet of this quality.”

–Jack B. Bedell, Louisiana Literature

“As a maker of sonnets, Barry Ballard has few contemporary peers. The sheer quality and extraordinary output of his work are astounding; it is a heightening experience of the best sort to read him. The clarity of voice and the authority of moment and, above, all, the surety of control place him solidly among the few of this new century who know that form and feeling are important and that it does take both to write good poetry.”

–Jim Barnes, Chariton Review

“Barry Ballard is consistently good and prolific, so for those of us who love his work, his voice is a gift.”

–Virgil Suarez, Florida State University

“Barry Ballard offers a series of twenty-four, ‘elemental’ sonnets refreshing in their content and serious in their consideration… poems, consistent in their reflection of real life and true feeling. Ballard’s voice sings from and to the heart of human existence.”

–W. Dale Hearell, Editor, RE:AL, The Journal of Liberal Arts

“Plowing To The End Of The Road is terribly intelligent book of sonnets from one on our most skilled poets. This is a complete collection of poems that poets hope to write… in this volume Barry Ballard has written such a book.”

–Stephen Reichert, Editor, Smartish Pace

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FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY:What the Body Already Knows –2021 NWVS WINNERby K.E. Ogden

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In this award-winning, debut chapbook, K.E. Ogden turns our gaze to mapping grief as a transformative journey of resilience. These are songs of devotion to mud, bird shit, dead bodies, hot biscuits, a cat’s torn ear, shovels, and sawdust. Each poem translates tragedy into gateways for metamorphosis, inviting readers to make new worlds in changed landscapes, to see beauty in dark, shark-infested waters, and to find elation and joy in being alive.

K.E. Ogden is a poet, essayist, book artist and educator. Kirsten grew up in Honolulu, Hawai’i and the SF Bay Area, and she spent almost every summer of her teen and twenty-something years in East Louisiana roaming the backroads with her grandmother. She loves writing on porches and still uses a typewriter for most things. A poet laureate of Gambier, Ohio, she teaches in Gambier each summer with the Kenyon Review Young Writer workshops and is one of the founding bloggers for KRO: Kenyon Review Online. A two-time judge for the Flannery O’Connor short fiction prize, Kirsten is also a former recipient of a Poetry Fellowship to Changsha, China from the CSULA Center for Contemporary Poetry & Poetics and a winner of the 2019 Academy of American Poets Henri Coulette Memorial Award for her poem “My Atoms Come from Those Stars.” Her essays, poetry, and fiction have been published in Brevity, KRO: Kenyon Review Online, Louisiana Literature, Streetlight Magazine, Windhover, andberbo and elsewhere. Her digital quilt piece “My President: A Politics of Hope” was published at UnstitchedStates.com as part of a project curated by writer Gretchen Henderson. Kirsten is a certified Narrative Therapist and chairs the Creative Writing Committee at Pasadena City College. She believes that writing and poetry have the power to heal and to change the world. To learn more,

visit her website at kirstenogden.com

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR What the Body Already Knows by K.E. Ogden – NWVS #164 – 2021 NWVS WINNER

K. E. Ogden‘s stunning chapbook, “What the Body Already Knows,” is a journey through grief for a father who “hung the sun” and a troubled mother who lives in memory as “fingerprints in the tops of all those biscuits.” Every poem is rooted in the world of the body—of those we love, of the earth, and of the sea, where the poet surprises herself by “singing underwater,” a perfect metaphor for what Ogden’s poetry accomplishes: a music all her own, rising, above all odds, from sorrow’s depths.

–Rebecca McClanahan, author of In the Key of New York City and The Tribal Knot

Every once in a precious while, a book comes into my life that shakes me out of my long days and worries, one that offers me honesty and real connection to its author. K.E. Ogden‘s new collection of poetry, What the Body Already Knows, is exactly that kind of book. These poems provide an atlas of loss, both to it and away from it, line by line. Whether telling the story of a mother lost in her sleep, a day lost to rumination over the corpse of a deer, or an entire year lost to loss itself, these poems show a way through it all. Yes, there is pain here, and fear, hospital rooms, and heavy memories from hard days, but these poems are much more than specimens lined up as examples of troubles in a drawer. They are alive, and colorful, and covered in all manner of beauty to render life’s real value.

–Jack B. Bedell, author of Color All Maps New, Poet Laureate, State of Louisiana, 2017-2019

K. E. Ogden‘s What the Body Already Knows begins with a father highlighting for his daughter the way out. Of course there is no way out. This collection chronicles the “year of forgot to breathe,” the year both parents die. In a pastoral scene, we see the pond filled with tires and truck parts, the pond where they throw in a dead deer on the count of three. These harsh, beautiful poems stun us with honesty, grit, and transformation.

–Peggy Shumaker, author of CAIRN and Gnawed Bones

K.E. Ogden‘s “What the Body Already Knows” manifests the circular and cyclical nature of grief with stunning directness and clarity. These poems are “muckings of primordial mud,” yet amazingly they give words to what cannot be said. Ogden examines the wreckage of loss, and these parts are “scooped up to make a new world.” I have never thought of loss as a mirror before reading these poems, but grief in this collection becomes a way of seeing the self in a world forever changed.

–Adam Clay, author of To Make Room for the Sea

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Birthdays 1.21

Beer Birthdays

Gottlieb Storz (1852)

Ludwig Thoma (1867)

Grigori Rasputin, politician, "the mad monk" (1869)

Jinx Falkenberg, the 1st Miss Rheingold (1919)

Tom Bedell (1948)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Ethan Allen; Revolutionary, leader of Vermont's Green Mountain Boys (1738)

Roger Nash Baldwin; founded ACLU (1884)

"Wolfman" Jack; Radio DJ (1939)

Jack Nicklaus; golfer (1940)

Telly Savalas; actor (1924)

Famous Birthdays

Paul Allen; Microsoft co-founder (1953)

Robby Benson; actor (1956)

Konrad Emil Bloch; biochemist (1912)

Emma Bunton; singer, "Spice Girl" (1976)

Barney Clark; 1st artificial heart recipient (1921)

Geena Davis; actor (1957)

Mac Davis; country singer, actor (1942)

Christian Dior; fashion designer (1905)

Placido Domingo; opera tenor (1941)

Jill Eikenberry; actor (1947)

John Fitch; steamboat inventor (1743)

Lola Flores; singer, actor (1925)

John Fremont; explorer, politician (1813)

Richie Havens; rock singer (1941)

Benny Hill; English comedian (1925)

Jimmy Ibbotson; country singer (1947)

Ito; Spanish footballer (1975)

"Stonewall" Jackson; Union general (1824)

Jam Master Jay; musician,, "Run DMC" (1965)

Jeff Koons; artist (1955)

Ken Leung; actor (1970)

J. Carrol Naish; actor (1897)

Billy Ocean; R&B singer (1950)

Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon; Houston Rockets C (1963)

Cat Power; pop singer (1972)

Steve Reeves; actor, bodybuilder (1926)

Paul Scofield; actor (1922)

Edwin Starr; rock singer (1941)

Karl Wallenda; acrobat, circus performer (1905)

William Wrigley III; chewing gum magnate (1933)