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Via Negativa

Via Negativa

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Category: Words on the Street

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Via Negativa’s street-wise, virtual guest writer has been gracing these pages since 2004.

Posted on October 27, 2004 by Dave Bonta

Words on the street

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Posted on October 26, 2004July 28, 2015 by Dave Bonta

Words on the street

wider_sidewalks

Posted on October 25, 2004July 28, 2015 by Dave Bonta

Words on the street

specials

Posted on October 23, 2004July 28, 2015 by Dave Bonta

Words on the street

handicapped_parking

Posted on October 22, 2004July 28, 2015 by Dave Bonta

Words on the street

head_for_the_mountains

Posted on October 21, 2004July 28, 2015 by Dave Bonta

Words on the street

buy_my_friendship

Posted on October 20, 2004September 23, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Words on the street

Posted on October 19, 2004July 28, 2015 by Dave Bonta

Words on the street

mutterance

Posted on October 18, 2004 by Dave Bonta

Words on the street

Posted on October 15, 2004July 28, 2015 by Dave Bonta

Words on the street

pay_go

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About

Via Negativa is a unique experiment in daily, poetic conversation with the living and the dead. Dave Bonta founded the site in 2003 and Luisa A. Igloria joined in 2010. Guest authors contribute as well. Dave writes daily erasure poems to discover the poetry hidden in the Diary of Samuel Pepys. Luisa has been writing and posting a poem a day since November 2010, often in response to Dave’s entries at The Morning Porch. Collections of poems first published at Via Negativa include Luisa’s The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis and Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser, and Dave’s Ice Mountain and Breakdown: Banjo Poems. Read more…

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