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Joseph Spence Sr.

His Excellency. Dr. Amb. Prof. Joseph S. Spence Sr, (Epulaeryu Master),
authored ten poetry books and published over 200 peer-reviewed articles.
He invented: "Epulaeryu" and "Linking Pin Sonnet" while studying
English literature, creative writing, the African Diaspora, Japanese
linguistics, and poetry at the University of Wisconsin. His writings have
appeared globally. He taught at Bryant and Stratton University. He retired
from the U.S. Army as a highly decorated officer and appointed Goodwill
Ambassador, Arkansas, by Governor William Jefferson Clinton (42nd
U.S. President).

He has received many awards. He embraced his paternal Scottish heritage
and served at Poet-in-Residence for St. Andrew Scottish Society and chief
advisor for the World Parliament of English Literature, India.
He published poems in Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Nigerian Yoruba,
Japanese, Polish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali,
Oriya, Jamaican Patois/Patwa, and Rastafarian languages. He has
membership in various international academic honor societies and resides
in Wisconsin, USA.

Trilogy Poetry: Intertwining of the Mind, Body,
and Soul!

Poetry Form Description: "Trilogy Poetry" proliferates the
interconnectedness of the mind, body, and soul (“Three Entities”)! Its
essential thesis symbolizes integration, cooperation, and inspiration. The
poem is longer than "Lines of Antiquity of Microbes" by Arum Saroyan.
It's not less than two regular stanzas forming an octave in poetic notations.
It's not as long as the epic Mahabharata, regarding the Kuru Kingdom. It
ends with no more than twenty-four lines like a Pantoum poem or
Claudette sonnet. The poem may comprise any imaginative architecture to
arrive at its encapsulating end. No requirement exists to use Shakespearean
iambic pentameter, interlocking rhyming schemes, or syllabic
accentuations. This is just purely down-to-earth and people-centric poetry
form. The thesis relates to three entities of either: a person, place, or thing.
The corresponding theme should enunciate unity, balancing of vision, and
overcoming. There should be incorporated an inference of hindrance,
creating tension; thus, requiring self-exploration, leading to clarity and
overcoming victoriously on the ensuing journey.

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