eric v blanchard
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Available Publications
My two poetry chapbooks, The Good Parts and Beware of Poet, are available to purchase using PayPal. Be sure to provide the following information: Title of book(s) Number of copies Don’t forget to provide your shipping address and email address (for confirmation). If you wish, you can mail the above information with a check for…
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Needle and Spoon – the Touch
I am honored to have my poem, “Needle and Spoon,” included in the Spring/Summer 2016 issue (#19) of Touch: The Journal of Healing. This was a difficult poem for me to write. (Sometimes, it’s even more difficult to read.) It means a great deal to me to have found it such wonderful home. Thank you, O.P.W., my friend.…
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Limp Bizkit was awesome!
Believe it if you choose, or don’t. Good, clean fun is good, clean fun. Check it out: “Tenacious Limp Bizkit Fans Shut Down Dayton Sunoco!”
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Conrad’s Corner on WYSO
Conrad Balliet reads a poem for his radio program Conrad’s Corner on 91.3 FM WYSO every Monday to Friday at 7:59 p.m. and another on Saturdays at 2:20 p.m. He keeps in contact with many poets in the Dayton, Ohio area, and often includes their poems in his on-air readings. On occasion, Conrad records an interview with one of them…
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Poetry for Change
I am extremely honored to have my poem “Peter Pan Must Die” included in the 2012 issue of Vending Machine: Poetry for Change along side many other talented poets, including Dianne Borsenik, Steve Brightman, T.M. Göttl, Marc Mannheimer, Tina Puckett, Eva Xanthopoulos and more. Mahatma Gandhi once said, “You must be the change you wish to see in the…
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Shout-out to Elizabeth
My friend, and fellow Wright Library Poet, Elizabeth Schmidt, won 2nd place in the 2012 Judson Jerome Poetry Contest and a scholarship to attend Antioch Writers’ Workshop this year. Congratulations, Elizabeth! She is scheduled to have her poem, “Acknowledgment,” read on Conrad’s Corner next Tuesday, June 12, 2012, at 7:59 p.m. (eastern time), 91.3 FM WYSO. (Put it on…
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Jill, the biker chick
So . . . Jill comes home the other day and says she wants to start riding her bicycle to school. Apparently, she read an article in Sinclair Community College’s student newspaper, The Clarion, about a couple of Sinclair professors, Kathleen Gish and Mike Canestaro, who are bicycle commuters. (The article was actually about the annual…
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Elk stuns zookeepers . . .
The headline reads “Elk Stuns Idaho zookeepers.” The massive beast did this by saving a tiny marmot from drowning. Stuns? Really? Some people seem to think the idea of an animal reaching out to help another animal, especially one of a different species, is pretty amazing. I disagree completely. Examples of animal-to-animal kindness abound. From a…
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Sweet Wilbur
I thought I was done with crusades. Seriously, I’ve done my share of crusading, often involving lost causes . . . or causes that were just plain thankless. I don’t know whether it’s the recent loss of our four-year-old bundle of bouncing joy, Wrigley, or that I simply can’t deny who I am, but when…
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The passing of Whale Sound … and beyond
I was a late-comer to the audio poetry journal Whale Sound, having only been introduced to it mere months before it closed. Nevertheless, I was immediately drawn to the strong, yet gentle, and almost haunting voice of the editor and primary reader, Nic Sebastian. For those who never had a chance to follow Whale Sound on a regular…
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Julie’s poems
I am thrilled to announce that my friend, Julie L. Moore, has three poems in the Summer/Fall 2011 issue (volume V, issue 2 ) of the online journal Poemeleon. In addition, her poem “Voice” appears in Issue 17 of the global poetry journal Switched-on Gutenberg. Julie is the Writing Center Director and an associate professor of English at Cedarville…
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“Prayer for My Unborn . . .”
Yesterday, I was catching up on reading the Poem-a-Day poems from the Academy of American Poets that have been stacking up in my e-mail box. (I am still almost a week behind.) What I really love about Poem-a-Day is the variety of poems selected and that it introduces me to poets of whom I had…
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Hello world!
That’s right. I’m starting a brand new blog. I will use this blog to give shout-outs to other writers, post brief reviews of poetry I come across online, and comment generally on other things that go on around this oh-so-strange world in which we live. First, I’d like to give a shout-out to my previous…
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