A Collection of Voices from Around the World is more than just a poetry compilation. It is a partnership of poets from around the globe brought together by an internet poetry forum. That forum, poetrypages.com, has been the home of many a fine poet s
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Crazy but beautiful. Insane but harmless. Dark and dirty. Fun and flirty. Melts in your mouth, not on your hands.
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Elizabeth Harper has lived in Chicago all her life and likes knowing her way around. Having missed her calling as an erotic dancer, she gets a kick out of reading poetry in bars and having drunks hoot and holler for her to read them sonnets and villanelles. She writes in many different styles and voices, utilizing influences from blues poetry, language poetry, surrealism, dadaism, and pop music, among other things. Murder, torment, sex, and mental illness are some of her favorite topics. Her favorite poets are James Tate and Stevie Smith. Her poetry is characterized by dsrk humor and childlike morbidity. Mainly she listens to the voices in her head and writes what they tell her to.
Her two books of poetry are Love Songs from Psychopaths and Fairy Tales Gone Awry. She currently hosts a monthly open mic variety show at Phyllis' Musical Inn in Chicago called "Elizabeth's Crazy Little Thing."
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