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Literary Classifieds is interested in the experimental, the unfinished, the unspeakable. We are a home for poems with and without origin. And, yes, we are interested in love. Submit a classified at forms.gle/rUm2EbMpd4Ji7Rfe7
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Sending our love to federal workers this week, especially those staffing the poet office.

Source: Yellowstone Monitor. July 3, 1913.
"Frank B Norton, Poet Office address, Sidney, Montana. Range on the east Hardscrabble. same brands on the left ribs, for cattle."
January 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Source: The Indianapolis journal. Oct. 7, 1894. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015...
"Smoke Hoosier Poet A 10-Cent Cigar." Surrounded by the text "Hoosier Poet" and "Hoosier Poet Cigar."
January 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Have something to share with the Literary Classifieds community? Classifieds must have no monetary fee associated with them, though an exchange of a “sack of potatoes” is allowed. We may not have the bandwidth to publish every classified we receive, but we try our best!
January 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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On April 24 1704, the inaugural issue of America's first successful newspaper, summarized the appetites of America with the first call for classifieds.

Source: www.loc.gov/resource/rbp...
Advertisement. This News Letter is to be continued Weekly; and all Persons who have any Houses, Lands, Tenements, Farms, Ships, Vessels, Goods, Wares or Merchandises, etc.. to be Sold, or Let; or Servants Runaway; or Goods Stollen, may have the same inserted at a reasonable rate."
January 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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"Unhappy Poets." The Montreal Daily Herald, June 30, 1887.
"Unhappy Poets." The Montreal Daily Herald, June 30, 1887. "Great Writers who Lived in Domestic Misery. The predominant theme of poetry is love; and poets, in verse at least, are the most seductive of lovers. Most young people who fall in love, fall also into verse, and if they cannot write rhyme themselves when suffering from this malady, invariably quote from their favorite poet..."
January 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM