tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68465778603992850552024-02-07T09:53:59.671-05:00Demaree Poetry ProgramsRobert Demaree is a retired educator and author of three collections of poems. This blog contains information on publications, readings and classes. For representative work and critical response see blog titled Demaree Poems & Reviews; for new poems see Demaree Recent Work(click on View My Complete Profile).Robert Demareehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15522563569403659475noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846577860399285055.post-77801245967870456582015-09-04T20:46:00.002-04:002016-06-30T15:31:50.976-04:00Upcoming EventsUpcoming readings, seminars and workshops scheduled as of June 30, 2016:<br />
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016<br />
Reading at Gibson's Bookstore<br />
Poetry Society of New Hampshire<br />
Main Street, Concord, N.H.<br />
7:00 p.m.<br />
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January -February 2017<br />
Access to Contemporary Poetry<br />
Six sessions, 10:45 a.m. Thursday mornings<br />
Shepherd's Center of Greensboro, N.C.<br />
Christ United Methodist Church<br />
410 N. Holden Rd.<br />
Greensboro, N.C.<br />
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May 2017<br />
Twin Lakes Spring Poetry Festival<br />
3701 Wade Coble Drive<br />
Burlington, N.C.<br />
10:00 a.m.<br />
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June 2017<br />
Short Reading for Faculty<br />
Wolfeboro Camp School<br />
Wolfeboro, N.H.<br />
9:00 a.m.<br />
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Saturday, June 24, 2017<br />
Effingham Poetry Seminar<br />
"Poets and the Notion of Home"<br />
Effingham, N.H. Public Library<br />
10:00 a.m.--2:00 p.m.<br />
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Recent events: Winter and Spring courses, Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N.C. Effingham Seminar June 2015; readings at Gibson's Bookstore, Concord August 2015 and Moultonborough Library September 2015. Winter Shepherd's Center course 2016; Effingham workshop June 2016; reading at Hill Library, Ctr. Strafford, N.H. June 2016.<br />
<br />Robert Demareehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15522563569403659475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846577860399285055.post-57643313621867630872014-11-28T11:15:00.002-05:002014-11-28T11:15:52.356-05:00Demaree Poetry Programs<br />
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January 15--February 19, 2015<br />
Access to Contemporary Poetry seminar<br />
Shepherd's Center--Christ United Methodist Church<br />
Greensboro, N.C.</div>
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Thursday, February 5, 2015<br />
Ex Libris Book Club<br />
Greensboro, N.C.<br />
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April--June 2015<br />
Access to Contemporary Poetry seminars<br />
Shepherd's Center--First Baptist Church<br />
Greensboro, N.C.<br />
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015<br />
Reading for Wolfeboro Camp School<br />
Wolfeboro, N,.H.<br />
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015<br />
Poetry Society of New Hampshire<br />
Gibson's Bookstore</div>
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Robert Demareehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15522563569403659475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846577860399285055.post-81696922658438305102014-05-12T19:59:00.002-04:002014-09-03T17:24:16.543-04:00THIRD COLLECTION--AFTER LABOR DAY--AVAILABLE<div class="MsoNormal">
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In his third book-length collection, Robert Demaree returns to
the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, to the place and time of life he calls
“Golden Pines,” and to other stops along the way. Now, as shadows begin to
lengthen, he shows us again the bittersweet, ironic poetry located in the
experiences of everyday living, which critics and editors have found imbued
with a quiet wisdom, patient precision, a gift for describing the rituals of
place, a mastery of diction and voice, and an art that presents a briefly
stable moment in delicate relief, poems in which we feel at home, that “demand
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“Bob Demaree speaks not only with
the wisdom of age, but with the wisdom of the ages.He sees beneath the joys and
sorrows of this <i>being human</i> and is
able to capture the essence of it in one-liners you rarely expect. Whether he’s
closing up a cottage on the lake, attending a friend’s funeral or watching his
grandchildren learn to paddle a kayak, his words place you precisely wherever <i>there</i> is and make you feel it. The tenor
of his writing, like the accuracy of Cupid’s arrows, rarely misses hitting the
heart.”---Barbara Bald, author of <i>Drive-Through
Window</i> and <i>Running on Empty</i>.</div>
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Robert Demaree is the author of two book-length collections
of poems, including <i>Mileposts</i> (2009),
and two chapbooks; he has had almost 700 poems published or accepted by more
than 150 periodicals. A retired school administrator with ties to <st1:state w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:state>, <st1:state w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:state>
and <st1:state w:st="on">New Hampshire</st1:state>, he has also written a
history of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Greensboro</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Day School</st1:placetype></st1:place>.</div>
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http://www.amazon.com/After-Labor-Day-Selected-Poems/dp/0983936773<br />
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<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Beech</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype></st1:place> Books</div>
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2080 Sullivan Park Circle</div>
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<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Burlington</st1:city>,
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June through October:</div>
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<b>2014 <st1:city w:st="on">READINGS/PROGRAMS</st1:city>
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Friday, May 9 10:00 a.m.<br />
Twin Lakes Community<br />
Burlington, N.C.<br />
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Thursday, June 19 7:00 p.m.<br />
Effingham Public Library<br />
Effingham, N.H.<br />
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Monday, July 14 6:00 p.m.<br />
Conway Library<br />
Conway, N.H.<br />
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Tuesday, August 12 7:00 p.m.<br />
Gibson's Bookstore<br />
Concord, N.H.<br />
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Tuesday, August 26 7:00 p.m.<br />
Wolfeboro Library<br />
Wolfeboro, N.H.<br />
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Wednesday, September 10 6:30 p.m.<br />
Water Street Books<br />
Exeter, N.H.<br />
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Tuesday, October 7 7:30 p.m.<br />
Moultonborough Library<br />
Moultonborough, N.H.<br />
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<b>2015 READINGS/PROGRAMS SCHEDULED</b><br />
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January--February 2015<br />
April--June 2015<br />
Access to Contemporary Literature<br />
Six-week classes, Shepherd's Center<br />
Greensboro, N.C.<br />
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015<br />
Poetry Society of New Hampshire<br />
Gibson's Bookstore<br />
Concord, N.H.<br />
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Robert Demareehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15522563569403659475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846577860399285055.post-62323774560808314372014-05-12T19:49:00.000-04:002014-05-12T19:51:57.270-04:00"Detachable Collars" Places First in Gilman Library Contest"Detachable Collars: Summer 1956" has received first place in the 2014 Poet's Tea Poetry Contest, sponsored by the Gilman Library in Farmington, N.H.<br />
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<b>DETACHABLE COLLARS: SUMMER 1956<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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He had owned the laundry<o:p></o:p></div>
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Where I worked, summers of my
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Passed it on to a nephew<o:p></o:p></div>
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And walk around the steamy
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Greeting the girls, he called
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At the mangle, a flirtatious
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For the one who took the
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Then he would repair to his
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The detachable collars that a
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Fellow octogenarians still
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Weekly packages mailed from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Biddeford</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Maine</st1:state></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Weary, he’d sit in the
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Reading the <i>Laundryman’s Journal,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Heard only by the young bookkeeper,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Who did not have long to
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<i>So much work to get out</i>, he sighed;<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>So much work</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He went quietly one August
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Dale, the washman, and I,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Awkward in our only suits,<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Robert Demareehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15522563569403659475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846577860399285055.post-75544450524720163482013-06-18T11:16:00.000-04:002013-06-18T11:16:11.161-04:00June 2013: Poems RecognizedTwo recent poems have received recognition in contests sponsored by the Poetry Society of New Hampshire and the Burlington Writers Club.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">To our cottage on the pond,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">And why not:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Four generations of<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Idiosyncratic postures,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Favorite chairs,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">The smiles of grandsons<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">In every splash off the dock,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Scent of decades of pine rooms,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">My father’s shaving brush,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">We did not buy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">So when we leave,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Packing up board games<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Along with Beth’s shy grin,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">The cottage, at first forlorn,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Recognizes the red kayak,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Frayed bedspreads,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Clouding the windshield of
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>“I hear wrong notes.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>The house smelled of cooked
vegetables,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Even at </span><st1:time hour="19" minute="30"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">7:30</span></st1:time><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>When Teddi Kalakos came for
her lesson.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>She and I played a duet once,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>K.P.E. Bach, it may have been.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>Her family ran a restaurant;<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>She may have inherited it—I
don’t know,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>Lost over time.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>Once a year Miss Edna would
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Into </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Philadelphia</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">, the </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Reading</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"> Railroad<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>More than a Monopoly card,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>Elegant iron horse, cold
coal-smoke dawn,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>Dutch trainmen in shiny blue
suits<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>Calling out the station
stops:<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Royersford, Conshohocken</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>She let us shop at Gimbel’s,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>Have lunch at Bookbinder’s,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>Wasted on 12-year-olds,</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">And took us to the </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Academy</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Music</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">Peter and the Wolf</span></i><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;">, no doubt.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>Years, years later<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>My mother asked if I
remembered<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.5pt;"><b>Seeing Ormandy conduct.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Burlington</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> Writers Club (Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Durham</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">, </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Guilford</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">,
</span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Orange</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">, Randolph and </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Rockingham</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">County, which includes Greensboro, Durham and Chapel Hill)</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Robert Demareehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15522563569403659475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846577860399285055.post-92176082525624160392012-06-30T11:06:00.001-04:002012-06-30T14:00:43.493-04:00June 2012 UpdateThe separate blogs in this site have been updated, to reflect some new work and recent activity. An addition to the School Readings page contains poems read at the opening faculty meeting of the Wolfeboro Summer Boarding School June 26, 2012. I have added a page titled "Effingham Poetry Workshops," with a summary of our third workshop held June 23, 2012. and poems by the participants.<br />
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The rather small number of copies of <i>Fathers and Teachers</i> and <i>Mileposts</i> that are still available (only one of <i>Fathers and Teachers</i>) have been transferred from the distributor to our residence in Wolfeboro, N.H. Scroll down for further information.<br />
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For index of all pages on this site, check "View My Complete Profile" at the right.Robert Demareehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15522563569403659475noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846577860399285055.post-55446549507533499392008-11-26T13:41:00.028-05:002012-07-09T12:33:26.190-04:00Recent and Upcoming Publications<strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Robert <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Demaree's</span> poetry can be found in numerous online and print poetry journals, samples of recent work listed below. </span></strong><br />
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<b style="background-color: white;">Dead Snakes</b><br />
<a href="http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2012/06/robert-demaree-two-poems.html">http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2012/06/robert-demaree-two-poems.html</a>
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June 2012<br />
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<b>South Townsville Micro poetry journal</b><br />
<a href="http://thesouthtownsvillemicropoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2012/04/robert-demaree.html">http://thesouthtownsvillemicropoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2012/04/robert-demaree.html</a>
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April 7, 2012<br />
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<strong>Right Hand Pointing</strong><a href="http://www.righthandpointing.com/">http://www.righthandpointing.com/</a><br />
check archives, "big index"<br />
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<strong style="background-color: white;">Miller's Pond</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.millerspondpoetry.com/index.php/issues/web_editions1/vol-12-1">http://www.millerspondpoetry.com/index.php/issues/web_editions1</a><br />
volume 12, issue 1; volume 15, issue 1<br />
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<strong style="background-color: white;">Drown in My Own Fears</strong><br />
<a href="http://drowninmyownfears.angelfire.com/issue7.html">http://drowninmyownfears.angelfire.com/</a><br />
Issues 7<br />
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<strong>Bolts of Silk</strong><a href="http://boltsofsilk.blogspot.com/2009/03/grackles-by-robert-demaree.html">http://boltsofsilk.blogspot.com/2009/03/grackles-by-robert-demaree.html</a><br />
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<strong>Thick With Conviction</strong><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/thickwithconviction">http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/thickwithconviction</a><br />
Issues 7 and 12<br />
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<strong style="background-color: white;">Bird's Eye <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">ReView</span> (January 2010)</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.birdseyepoetry.org/">http://www.birdseyepoetry.org/</a><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white;">Poetry Super Highway (Poet of the Week, February 8-14, 2010)</strong><br />
<a href="http://poetrysuperhighway.com/ppotw.html">http://poetrysuperhighway.com/ppotw.html</a><br />
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<strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Aurorean</span> (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Farmington</span>, Me.)</strong><br />
<strong style="background-color: white;">Poet's Touchstone-N.H. Poetry Society</strong><br />
<strong style="background-color: white;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Tipton</span> Poetry Journal (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Zionsville</span>, Ind.)</strong><br />
<strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Voicings</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">from</span> the High Country (Casper, Wyo.)</strong><br />
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<strong></strong>Robert Demareehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15522563569403659475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846577860399285055.post-40947683181574499112008-11-26T12:30:00.094-05:002014-11-28T11:14:41.464-05:00Poetry Classes and Readings<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_KQQFEv5bUfXo9l-nBi3Vx5DvOkDUoaIpw1kAq9W-V1V7J2k65gTbxfmoTLxlUglbojxYhoeIiMW7UEW_tJa4YTkhDljfvzENIaw0hfP17wtpMWVYpDiwYGv-6I8WxC7El3SQioFQMqo/s1600-h/10-19-2009+12%3B06%3B50PM.JPG"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_KQQFEv5bUfXo9l-nBi3Vx5DvOkDUoaIpw1kAq9W-V1V7J2k65gTbxfmoTLxlUglbojxYhoeIiMW7UEW_tJa4YTkhDljfvzENIaw0hfP17wtpMWVYpDiwYGv-6I8WxC7El3SQioFQMqo/s320/10-19-2009+12%3B06%3B50PM.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396905275862682914" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 206px;" /></span></a><span style="font-size: 130%;"></span><span style="color: #993300;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"><em>Second book-length collection MILEPOSTS</em> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #993300;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">Limited Number of Copies Still Available--</span></span><br />
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In his second book-length collection, Robert <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Demaree</span></span> turns his attention to the place and time of life he knows as Golden Pines and takes us back to the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, whose mythic woods and meadows informed <em>Fathers and Teachers</em>.<br />
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Again, he finds in the experiences of everyday living a poetry that is ironic, bittersweet, always accessible, and, as John-Michael Albert (editor of the 2008 and 2010 editions of the <em>Poets' Guide</em> <em>to New Hampshire</em>) notes, "demands further consideration."<br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">"Like Ted <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Kooser</span></span> and Billy Collins, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Demaree</span></span> is able to present singular experiences with a startling reality that rings true. It is his mastery of voice and diction, of sentiment and reality that allows <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Demaree</span></span> to balance the personal with the global and still retain the reader's trust...his account is personal and therefore...specific and wonderful."<br />—Jillian Meyer <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Bledsoe</span></span>, author of Leaving <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Newfound</span></span> and co-editor, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Ghoti</span></span> magazine.</span><br />
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$12.95 / paperback / 86 pages / Beech River Books / 2009 / ISBN 978-0-9825214-0-3<br />
<a href="http://www.beechriverbooks.com/Robert_Demaree.html">Robert <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Demaree</span></span> </a>is the author of four collections of poems, including <i>Fathers and Teachers</i>, published in 2007. He has had approximately 600 poems published or accepted by more than 125 periodicals. A retired school administrator with ties to North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire, he has also written a history of Greensboro Day School.<br />
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To order: send $15.00 ( includes postage) to:<br />
Robert <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Demaree</span></span>, 2080 Sullivan Park Circle, Burlington, NC 27215. For further information, visit <a href="http://www.beechriverbooks.com/">http://www.beechriverbooks.com/</a><br />
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<strong>Poetry Readings, Classes and Workshops</strong><br />
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January 15--February 19, 2015<br />
Access to Contemporary Poetry seminar<br />
Shepherd's Center--Christ United Methodist Church<br />
Greensboro, N.C.</div>
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Thursday, February 5, 2015<br />
Ex Libris Book Club<br />
Greensboro, N.C.<br />
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April--June 2015<br />
Access to Contemporary Poetry seminars<br />
Shepherd's Center--First Baptist Church<br />
Greensboro, N.C.<br />
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015<br />
Reading for Wolfeboro Camp School<br />
Wolfeboro, N,.H.<br />
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015<br />
Poetry Society of New Hampshire<br />
Gibson's Bookstore<br />
Concord, N.H.<br />
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<strong>Recent Readings, Programs</strong> <strong>and Classes</strong></div>
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2014<br />
Jan. 16--Feb. 20 Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N,C,<br />
Mar. 28--Apr. 11 Poetry Across the Centuries Seminar, Burlington, N.C.<br />
April 17 Poetry and the Uses of Memory seminar, Elon, N.C.<br />
April 24--June 5 Shepherd's Center Greensboro, N.C.<br />
May 9 Reading at Twin Lakes Community Burlington, N.C.<br />
June 2 Reading for Greensboro Day School faculty, Greensboro, N.C.<br />
June 19 Featured reader, Effingham Public Library, Effingham, N.H.<br />
June 21 Poetry and the Uses of Memory seminar, Effingham, N.H.<br />
June 24 Reading for Wolfeboro Camp School faculty, Wolfeboro, N.H.<br />
July 14 Featured reader, Conway Library, Conway, N.H.<br />
Aug. 12 Reading at Gibson's Bookstore, Concord, N.H.<br />
Aug. 26 Reading at Wolfeboro Library, Wolfeboro, N.H.<br />
Sept. 10 Reading at Water Street Books, Exeter, N.H.<br />
Oct. 7 Reading at Moultonborough Library, Moultonborough, N.H.<br />
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2013<br />
Jan. 17--Feb. 28 Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N.C.<br />
February 27--The Village at Brookwood, Burlington, N.C.<br />
Mar. 22, 25; Apr. 5--20th Century Poetry Seminar, with Dr. Griff Campbell, Twin Lakes Community, Burlington, N.C.<br />
April 18--Contemporary Poetry Seminar, Life at Elon Program, Elon University, Elon, N.C.<br />
April 25--June 6 Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N.C.<br />
May 14--Burlington Writers Club Awards Banquet ("Piano Lessons" First Place)<br />
May 20--Reading for Greensboro Day School faculty<br />
April 25-June 6--Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N.C.<br />
June 22--"Poetry of Time and Place" workshop, Effingham, N.H.<br />
June 25--Wolfeboro Summer Boarding School faculty, Wolfeboro, N.H.<br />
July 31--Greenwood Literary Festival, Wolfeboro Summer Boarding School, N.H.<br />
Oct. 1--Featured Reader, Moultonborough, N.H., Public Library<br />
Oct. 24--Poetry in the Twin Lakes Club Room, with Janet Warman, Burlington, N.C.<br />
November 20--Life at Elon, Elon, N.C. group reading.<br />
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2012<br />
Jan. 19--Feb. 23 Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N.C.<br />
<span style="background-color: white;">April 12 Friends Home Guilford, Greensboro, N.C.</span><br />
April 16 Greensboro Day School faculty, Greensboro N.C.<br />
June 23 "Poetry and Personal Identity" workshop, Effingham, N.H.<br />
June 26 Wolfeboro Summer Boarding School faculty, Wolfeboro, N.H.<br />
September 4 Moultonborough Library, Moultonborough, N.H.<br />
October 30 "Life at Elon," Elon University, Elon, N.C.<br />
November 16 Greensboro Day School Ninth-Grade English classes<br />
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2011</div>
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January 25 Village at Brookwood, Burlington, N.C.</div>
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February 2 PEO Sisterhood, Chapter F, Greensboro, N.C.</div>
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February 14 Presbyterian Home at Hawfields, Mebane, N.C.</div>
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Jan. 20--Feb. 24 Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N.C.</div>
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February 24 LifeVerse class, Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N.C.</div>
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March 1 Guilford College Art Appreciation Club, Greensboro, N.C.</div>
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March 15 PEO Sisterhood Charities Benefit, Burlington, N.C.</div>
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March 21 New Garden Friends Poetry Critique Group, Greensboro, N.C. Workshop "To See and See Again"</div>
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April 20 Holy Comforter Episcopal Church Men's Breakfast, Burlington, N.C.</div>
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April 28--June 2 Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N.C.</div>
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June 25 "To See and See Again" workshop, Effingham, N.H.</div>
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September 6 Moultonborough Library, Moultonborough, N.H.</div>
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November 7 New Garden Friends Poetry Critique Group, Greensboro, N.C. Workshop "Poets and Publishing: The Amateur Poet and the World of the Small Press"</div>
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December 15 Presbyterian Home at Hawfields, Mebane, N.C.</div>
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2010<br />
January 7 Ex <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">Libris</span></span> Book Club Greensboro, N.C.<br />
January 25 Reading & Signing Twin Lakes Community Burlington, N.C.<br />
February 8 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42">Abbotswood</span></span> at Irving Park Greensboro, N.C.<br />
February 9 Presbyterian Home at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">Hawfields</span></span> M<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">ebane</span></span>, N.C.<br />
February 27 Burlington Writers Club <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45">Alamance</span></span> Comm. College Graham, N.C.<br />
March 23-April 13 Access to Poetry class Twin Lakes Burlington, N.C.<br />
April 20 Trinity Oaks Retirement Community Salisbury, N.C.<br />
April 24 Greensboro Day School 40<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46">th</span> Anniversary Greensboro, N.C.<br />
April 26 Bill <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47">Moyers</span>' <em>Fooling With Words</em> Twin Lakes Book Club Burlington, N.C.<br />
May 8 Burlington Writers Club Graham, N.C. "Putting Together a Collection"<br />
May 17 Greensboro Day School Faculty Greensboro, N.C.<br />
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April 8-May 13 Shepherd's Center Greensboro, N.C.</div>
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May 20 First Presbyterian Church Burlington, N.C.</div>
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June 3 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48">Solgarden</span> Gift Shop <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49">Mebane</span>, N.C. (Burlington Writers Club)</div>
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June 26 Effingham Library, Effingham, N.H. Workshop: "The Amateur Poet and the World of the Small Press"</div>
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August 28 Effingham Library, Effingham, N.H. Workshop: "The Amateur Poet and the World of the Small Press"</div>
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September 7 Moultonborough Library, Moultonborough, N.H.</div>
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September 15 Goodwin Library, Farmington, N.H. Workshop: "The Amateur Poet and the World of the Small Press"</div>
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Oct. 19-Nov. 8 Access to Poetry class Abbotswood at Irving Park, Greensboro, N.C.</div>
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November 9 English-Speaking Union Greensboro, N.C. "Using Poetry to Retrieve the Past."</div>
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November 10 Creative Writing Class, Greensboro Day School, Greensboro, N.C.<br />
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January 27 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Hawfields</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Mebane</span>, N.C.<br />
February 9 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Abbotswood</span> Greensboro, N.C.<br />
February 16 Friends Home <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Guilford</span> Greensboro, N.C.<br />
March 17 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">WhiteStone</span> Greensboro, N.C.<br />
March 31 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Hawfields</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Mebane</span>, N.C.<br />
April 9 Well Spring Greensboro, N.C.<br />
April 13 Greensboro Day School Faculty Greensboro, N.C.<br />
May 6 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">PennyByrn</span> at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">Maryfield</span> High Point, N.C.<br />
May 9 Twin Lakes <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">UU</span> Fellowship Burlington, N.C.<br />
May 11 Twin Lakes Vision Support Group Burlington, N.C.<br />
May 17 St. Andrews Episcopal Church Greensboro, N.C.<br />
May 26 River Landing at Sandy Ridge Colfax, N.C.<br />
June 18 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Effingham</span> Library <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">Effingham</span>, N.H.<br />
August 16 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Wolfeboro</span>:The Summer Boarding School <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">Wolfeboro</span>, N.H.<br />
September 14 Conway Library Conway, N.H.<br />
September 27 Sugar Hill Retirement Community <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Wolfeboro</span>, N.H.<br />
October 1 Mel Flanagan's Irish Pub & Cafe Rochester, N.H.<br />
Oct. 20--Nov. 10 Access to Poetry class <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">Abbotswood</span> Greensboro, N.C.<br />
November 11 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">WhiteStone</span> Greensboro, N.C.<br />
November 16 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">PEO</span> Chapter CF Greensboro, N.C.<br />
Nov. 9-30 Access to Poetry class Twin Lakes Burlington, N.C.<br />
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Robert Demareehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15522563569403659475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846577860399285055.post-71533766447346662222008-11-26T10:11:00.001-05:002012-12-10T13:05:40.797-05:00Available for Readings and ProgramsRobert <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Demaree</span> is available for poetry readings and programs without charge to non-profit organizations.<br />
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Bob draws on the work of Jane Kenyon and Ted Kooser, as well as his own work, to examine how we can use the techniques of poets to create narratives of the past. Program designed for club meetings, luncheon programs, etc.</div>
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Readings can be tailored to specific interests and topics, e.g., Seasons in New England, Retirement and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Senior</span> Living, Poems About Schools and Teaching<br />
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<strong>Access to Contemporary Poetry</strong> (1-3 hours)<br />
A look at several 20<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">th</span> and 21st century poets, to show how poets communicate in accessible language.<br />
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<strong>Telling Your Story</strong> (1-4 sessions)<br />
Interactive workshop. Participants who wish to will use techniques of accessible poetry to convey personal and family stories.<br />
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<strong>Workshops and Programs for High School Creative Writing Classes and Literary Magazine Staffs</strong><br />
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<strong>Publication and Marketing: The Poet and the World of the Small Press</strong><br />
<strong>To See and See Again: Techniques of Composition and Revision</strong><br />
<strong>Poetry and Personal Identity</strong><br />
<strong>The Poetry of Time and Place</strong><br />
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Robert <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Demaree</span>’s programs have been well received by groups ranging from high school students to senior citizens’ groups. He has been the featured reader at numerous poetry venues in the Northeast and North Carolina, including libraries at Conway, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Wolfeboro</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Moultonborough</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Effingham</span> and Center <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Strafford</span>, N.H., Lovell, Me., the Greensboro, N.C., Historical Guild, English-Speaking Union, the Twin Lakes, Arbor Acres, Penny Bryn and Well Spring retirement communities, and the Rust Pond Association.Robert Demareehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15522563569403659475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6846577860399285055.post-64456623951303278402008-11-26T09:27:00.005-05:002012-06-30T14:16:51.181-04:00Fathers and Teachers--Now in a Fourth Printing<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA4w82ctST6HAapE8lCqpUDd5xVVzTROo5xfYZQBhQfYakBmFdsGyeisoFkp7lOIt0LHZVpIj0Jlof0e3dG6J8dzv1IY7Vg4Qog2PMy8prDvnfERiH0Lapk6ioVGxyZbuVu2da40-_K74/s1600-h/11-26-2008+09%3B17%3B05AM.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272973204885397522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA4w82ctST6HAapE8lCqpUDd5xVVzTROo5xfYZQBhQfYakBmFdsGyeisoFkp7lOIt0LHZVpIj0Jlof0e3dG6J8dzv1IY7Vg4Qog2PMy8prDvnfERiH0Lapk6ioVGxyZbuVu2da40-_K74/s320/11-26-2008+09%3B17%3B05AM.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 210px;" /></a><br />
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From a daughter's graduation to a young man's funeral, from Louisiana, forlorn after Hurricane Katrina, to the pristine woods and lakes of New Hampshire, where he lives five months of the year, Robert Demaree takes us to the places and events of shared experience, in verse that is ironic, buttersweet, and always accessible. You will say, with Jillian Meyer-Bledsoe, author of Leaving Newfound and co-editor of Ghoti Magazine, "I know that place."</div>
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Robert Demaree is the author of three other collections of poems: <i>Mileposts</i> (see above), a chapbook titled <i>New Hampshire Pond</i> and an online collection, <i>Things He Thought He Already Knew</i>; he has published over 550 poems in 235 periodicals. A retired school administrator with ties to North Carolina, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, he has also written a history of Greensboro (N.C.) Day School.</div>
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<i>Fathers and Teachers</i> is available through the author. For further information, contact the publisher’s website, <a href="http://www.beechriverbooks.com/">http://www.beechriverbooks.com</a> or the author: Robert Demaree, 2080 Sullivan Park Circle, Burlington, NC 27215. E-mail: <a href="mailto:rdemareejr@triad.rr.com">rdemareejr@triad.rr.com</a>. </div>
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