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Maxwell Despard lives and writes in Virginia Beach. An active poet since 1999, he was the founder and lead moderator of HRPoets for many years, as well as the final MC for the area’s longest running open mic at Casablanca Cafe. He was a regular featured performer with the 40th Street Poetry Collective, reading alongside such notables as Tim Seibles. Robert P. Arthur, Jeff Hewitt, and Malcolm Powell.
2007 witnessed the release of his first collection of poetry, “Segue” through Albuquerque’s Destructible Heart Press. He is currently working on completing his next book of poetry, “The God of Penguins,” tentatively due in 2013.
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Taoist Drinking Songs by Chung Ssu-Ch'eng
31 Jul 2011 | from mdespard.blogspot.com/
Here, have some poetry. Explanatory details at the end.
plucking ferns to eat in exile at Shou-yang
in vain enduring hunger
wasn’t that just silly quibbling?
was Ch’ü Yüan’s sobriety
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