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Tonight - a Love Letter

Tonight was inspirational because when I'm low, you make me high. It's energy, community, a soul unique in that we all share the same zing that executes us to deliver our words to new meanings. The meaning felt behind your eyes, his eyes, her eyes. Us. You deliver me to a plateau that is typically beyond my reaching. You turn the macabre into love, hope into a charity that builds and builds until we all walk together, crossing that "bridge". Tonight showed me how names are all known, and faces commonly seen, but experience is what is remembered. Tonight we experienced one another, and now we'll remain family. ~Thank you, Writers' Row!   with humility, Jessica

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Tresha Haefner: Winner of the 1st Los Angeles Poet Society Summer Poetry Contest!

Join me in congratulating our winner, Tresha Haefner , of the Los Angeles Poet Society Summer Poetry Contest, sponsored by Writers' Row ! Tresha's poem, I Will Arise Now and go to Los Angeles , is honest with each line nurturing the next. The ending is like a soft melody that punctures you with truth, and inspires contimplation of the intricacies of this city, and our bonded human experieince. It also happens to beautifully answer this years' question: "Why did you come to LA?"  Thank you to all who entered! Please stay posted for the launch of the Los Angeles Poet Society web space where notable entries will be published! I Will Arise Now and go to Los Angeles After William Butler Yeats I will arise now and go to Los Angeles where the lip gloss is leopard print and the eyes of women shine like jewels waiting to be excavated from an urban jungle. I will arise now and go to Los Angeles where they sit on towels that have hundred dollar