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“When internationally acclaimed artists can’t teach because they don’t have an MFA, what does that say about the state of education?”

June 15, 2013 by the Editors 4 Comments

This is a comment by Cameron Conaway on the post “The Wayward Crutch of Higher Education”.

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: academics, artists, bureaucrats, colleges, education, men, playwright, poetry, poets, students, talent, talents, teaching, universities, value, women

New Folsom Prison Diary: April

June 5, 2013 by Spoon Jackson 1 Comment

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Spoon Jackson’s view of the world from Folsom State Prison is framed by a 3″x3′ tall window.

Filed Under: Poet Behind Bars, Prison, The Good Life Tagged With: bird watching, California state penitentiary, deer watching, Folsom Prison, frustration, men in prison, nature appreciation, New Folsom, playing an instrument, poetry, prison life, prison workout, typical day in prison, view from prison, workouts

Slam Poetry: How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog

June 1, 2013 by Deanna Ogle Leave a Comment

You might be surprised by the similarities, but not in the way you might expect.

Filed Under: Bits & Pieces, Trending Tagged With: dating, dog, dream, healthy, lover, marriage, married, men, New York, poem, poetry, relationships, Sex and Relationships, significant other, slam poetry, spouse, Taylor Mali, warm, women, Work

#33: Long Night in the Club

May 16, 2013 by Todd Mauldin Leave a Comment

The being ready is important and the delivering the best you can is even more important.

Filed Under: Bits & Pieces Tagged With: art, bartender, club, comic, comic strip, gigs, haiku, haiku strip, Hellbusters, long nights, music, people, playing, poetry, Todd Mauldin

Ninety-Nine

April 22, 2013 by Trevor Ellestad 2 Comments

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New contributor Trevor Ellestad starts off “100 Words from Men on Love,” for The Good Life with one hundred words about his ninety-nine year old grandfather.

Filed Under: 100 Words on Love, Men Over 50, The Good Life Tagged With: 100 Words on Love, cancer, death, familial love, fathers, gardening, grandfathers, grief, Immigrants, men on love, old age, old men, paternal devotion, poetry, sailing, Sex and Relationships, The Good Life, tumors, war poetry, war veterans, Work

Beware the Angry Spinning Suns

April 18, 2013 by Jack Varnell Leave a Comment

Two poems by Jack Varnell

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Angry, child, Divorce, Emotional Orphan, Jack Varnell, poetry, son, The Angry Spinning Suns

Death Wish

April 18, 2013 by Andy Bodle 2 Comments

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Risky behavior in adolescent males ranges from self improvement to suicidal, but the reward is the same.

Filed Under: Do Not Attempt, Featured Content, Suicide, Teenage Kicks, The Good Life, Womanology Tagged With: adolescent males, ancestral bias, attracting girls, car accidents, competition, drunk driving, evolutionary psychology, fitting in, flirting, high school drinking, hooking up, Hugh MacDiarmid, male aggression, male competition, male sexuality, male suicide, physical risk taking, poetry, risk-taking, risky behavior, running from the police, sexual aggression, sexual reproduction, suicidal behavior, suicide attempt, suicide attempts, suicide England, suicide rates in men, suicide Wales, teens drinking, teens drunk driving, testosterone, UK Office of National Statistics

I Come From: Three Essays from Venice High School Students

April 13, 2013 by The Good Life @ GMP 2 Comments

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Marcus Anderson, Fernando Garcia, and Steve Miramontes are three young men who know where they come from.

Filed Under: Poetry by Kids, The Good Life Tagged With: African American History, angelenos, black culture, Black History, Black pride, Boys, california, crime, Families, gang violence, heritage, high school boys, homeless youth, Los Angeles, marijuana, PEN USA, poetry, pride, violence, writing prompts, young male writers, young men, young men who write, young writers

Finding the Boy in Your Father

April 13, 2013 by Cameron Conaway 4 Comments

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Your father wasn’t just a boy “back then.” He’s one now, too.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Featured Content Tagged With: Bangkok, being a man, boyhood, Cameron Conaway, dad and son, family relationship, father son relationships, fathers and son, fathers and sons, how to practice meditation, learning from the past, male intimacy, manhood, meditation, men, mindfulness, mindfulness meditation, parent and child, parents and children, poetry, rites of passage, thay, Thich Nhat Hanh, zen buddhism

First Crush

March 28, 2013 by Andy Bodle 2 Comments

When Andy Bodle’s first feelings of love were not returned in kind, he succumbed to desperation.

Filed Under: Suicide, The Good Life, Womanology Tagged With: adolescent male sexuality, anthropology, crushes, dark comedy, dating, Donald Symons, first love, girls who love bad boys, heartbreak, poetry, puppy love, romance, school life, suicidal thoughts, suicide, suicide attempt, teenage boys, tennis

Rosanne Cash Performs at Folsom State Prison

March 24, 2013 by Spoon Jackson 3 Comments

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Forty years after the late musician Johnny Cash performed “Folsom Blues” in the Folsom Prison Library, his daughter returns and meets GMP poet Spoon Jackson.

Filed Under: Poet Behind Bars, The Good Life Tagged With: artists, celebrities, entertainment, Folsom Blues, Folsom State Prison, Johnny Cash, men in prison, music, musicians, poetry, poets, roethke, Rosanne Cash, Spoon Jackson Realness Network, The Good Life, Walt Whitman

The Forever Lunacy

March 1, 2013 by Terri Trespicio 6 Comments

The word “forever” only applies to you if you’re a vampire.

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This Tendency Is Now Familiar to Us: Poem by Emily Kendal Frey

February 26, 2013 by Emily Kendal Frey Leave a Comment

We define ourselves by what we believe

Filed Under: Poetry Edited by Greg Sherl Tagged With: Emily Kendal Frey, Gregory Sherl, poem, poetry, This Tendency Is Now Familiar to Us

Arts in Correction Documentary ‘At Night I Fly’ Premieres at MOMA

February 17, 2013 by Spoon Jackson 3 Comments

GMP Poet Spoon Jackson is one of the subjects of Michel Wenzler’s complex portrait of prison life, in its US premiere at MOMA on February 20.

Filed Under: A&E, Good Feed Blog, Poet Behind Bars, Prison, The Good Life Tagged With: adult education, art education, arts education, arts in prison, At Night I Fly, california, creative writing, documentary, literature, men in prison, Michel Wenzer, Museum of Modern Art, music education, New Folsom, New Folsom Arts in Correction Facilitation, poetry, prison documentaries, prison life, Sacramento, Spoon Jackson, Tobias Janson

She’s Going to Do Something Amazing: Poem by Lynn Melnick

February 15, 2013 by Lynn Melnick Leave a Comment

She’s choking on the inspirational music / from the nurse tech’s radio, something about running and fire

Filed Under: Poetry Edited by Greg Sherl Tagged With: Gregory Sherl, If I Should Say I Have Hope, Lynn Melnick, poem, poetry, She's Going to Do Something Amazing

How to Write a Love Sonnet

February 14, 2013 by Noah Brand Leave a Comment

It’s cheap, it’s shockingly easy, and it’s disproportionately impressive.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Featured Content Tagged With: cheap valentine's day gift, couplet, how to write a sonnet, iambic pentameter, poetic structure, poetry, quatrain, rhyme scheme, romance, romantic gesture, sonnet, Valentine's Day, William Shakespeare

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