Slab Radio Interview Tonight

My next radio interview will be on the show The Slab at 8PM EST tonight. Follow the link below and click the listen live link. http://theslabradio.net/word/ai1ec_event/frank-g-poe-jr/?instance_id=

The Political Poet Poetry Competition in Honor of Robert Frost

The Political Poet Poetry Competition in Honor of Robert Frost

April is National Poetry Month, and The Political Poet is having a poetry competition in honor one of the most celebrated poets and humanist, Robert Frost.


"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself." Robert Frost

The competition is free, no entry fee, but limited to three poems per person. Poems of any length, style, form, structured or free verse. Your poem(s) must be in English. Any subject matter is acceptable, but anything deemed derogatory to anyone due to race, religion or sexual preference will be removed. By submitting to this competition, poets are verifying they are your poems your original work, and you must not assign or license to any other party any copyrights or other rights in your poems. Poems should not contain material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, pornographic, harassing, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory, or otherwise objectionable. In other words, your poems must be suitable to be posted on an unrestricted web site that minors access.

Contest open to individual persons who are 18 or older as of the time of their initial entry. Current and former employees, contractors, directors, and officers of The Political Poet, or Dark Butterfly Publications, their immediate family members (parent, child, sibling, and spouse), and those living in the same domicile therewith are ineligible. Sorry, contest is open to United States residents only. Poets living outside the USA can submit poems for posting consideration, but they are ineligible for prizes. Minors under the age of 18 can now submit poems to the competition, but all entries must follow previously posted guidelines and be accompanied with a signed statement granting permission from one of the minor’s parents or legal guardians. Prizes won by a minor will be shipped to the parent or legal guardian.

Email submissions to poeplace@aol.com and put The Political Poet Poetry Competition in the subject line, or send submissions by regular mail to The Political Poet, PO Box 90, Falmouth, KY 41040.

Include your name, address, email, and phone (optional) with your submission(s). Deadline for submissions is March 22, 2012. Finalists will be notified by March 31, 2012, and their names posted on The Political Poet blog along with honorable mentions.

The top 5 actual poems will be posted on The Political Poet web page throughout April, 2012.

Prizes
1st place gets $50.00
2nd place gets $25.00
3rd place gets $15.00
4th and 5th place get Star Child and 13 More Twisted Tales t-shirts.

Estimated prize values including postage: 1st ($50.00) 2nd ($25) 3rd ($15.00) 4th/5th ($10.00)

Interview Rescheduled

Slab Radio host back and our interview is rescheduled for next Thursday. For details follow the link below. 
http://theslabradio.net/word/ai1ec_event/frank-g-poe-jr/?instance_id

Interview Postponed

The host had a medical emergency, and the interview on Slab Radio must be rescheduled, sorry all. I'll let you know when it is. BTW Amazon finally dropped the Kindle price down to $2.99 for my first book to bring it more in line with the going market.

Inspiration Hurts

Many of the readers enjoying my book or cringing from my stories seem to ask the same question.

“Where do you get the ideas for your stories?”

Some think dreams, nightmares or my own personal twisted fantasies. I’ll admit my stories are twisted thus the title tag “Twisted Tales.” The truth is far less sinister than harboring secret explicit sexual desires. In some cases, I simply watch the news for creativeness. The darkness in my tales often comes from actual news clips, not my soul. Other ideas come from personal observations about the everyday people throughout my life. A bit of advice to you all, you should never tell a writer anything personal you don’t want crafted into a story. If the morsel is the least bit colorful or interesting it will end up being used as a tasty image by said writer.

In other words, all writers are thieves. We steal ideas from all around us. If my tales are too explicit then it is because the world has become excessively extroverted. Sorry, three donated copies of my first book are being returned by a charity because my stories were too explicit for their adult lending library, yet more writing motivation.

In fact, real personal inspiration hurts. For some writers using their own intimate experiences of love, loss, struggle, addiction and injury remain painful muses. In my case I’ve decided to share my excruciating story inspiration for The Lovely Stones.

The following is a kidney stone I passed on January 20, 2012. It isn’t photo shopped. The stone is shown next to the dime for size scale. To date, I’ve been inspired by eighteen such stones and this one wasn’t even the biggest. Now, if William Shatner would explain how he managed to auction his kidney stone off for enough money to build a house for Habitat for Humanity, I could start building a city.

            

My Next Radio Interview

My next radio interview will be on the show The Slab January 26 at 8PM EST. Follow the link below and click the listen live link.
http://theslabradio.net/word/ai1ec_event/frank-g-poe-jr/?instance_id=

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all. Yes, I called it Christmas because that's what I celebrate. If you honor a different holiday, good for you. Happy holidays to you. I respect your right to enjoy your traditions. Please respect mine. Thanks all.