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Create a poem in the form of some kind of official document.
Need examples? Here you […]
I’ll have spotty access to the internet, so I’m writing several posts in advance. I would not want to leave you, dear reader, with an empty blog!
For today, I bring you an E-Prime writing assignment. Write a poem without the verb “to be.”
To make it more interesting, include the name of one architectural detail and […]
Mary Biddinger’s book, Prairie Fever, arrived in the mail today. Yay.
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I’ve been going over what books to take with me to LA. We’ll take a guide of some kind, of course. Today, I was in the mood to read books about reading or writing, so I picked up Francine Prose’s book on reading like a […]
From William Logan…
Happy families are all alike, but unhappy families … look out! Your mother will leave journals, Hollywood will option them, and Gwyneth Paltrow star in the movie (lucky you, it will bomb at the box-office). Frieda Hughes is the daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, a fact suppressed in her first book […]
In a class I’m taking, one person asking what do we do with mean poems?
“Do we just let them get hurt? Do we not circulate these poems at workshops? Or just decide not to publish them (when the day comes)? Anyone have any advice?”
What do you all do with your mean poems? […]
My grandmother turns 102 next week.
I’m baffled by what to get her for her birthday. Tomorrow, I have to visit the mall to exchange a present someone got me. Since I’ll actually be inside a mall, it’s a good time to get my grandmother a present. What to get? What to get? I’ve already done […]
I am grateful for:
1. Those who can make conversation (thank goodness!)
2. Views of the sunset from my back yard
3. The swimming pool community
4. Yarn
5. Words
6. Drinking water available in my own house
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Last night, I invited a bunch of people to join me on Good Reads. My friend, EF, once wrote some of us an email to ask for good book recommendations. She was tired of reading books on how to get a baby to sleep more than 3 hours in a row.
We sent our suggestions to […]
First, can a good poem be created from mostly declarative sentences? I’m searching for examples.
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Second, I’m enjoying this poem. To read the entire piece, click (or cluck) on the words below:
Melancholia
Almost I rushed from home to tell you this:
that melancholia, the word, when broken
down to its roots, its ancient Greek particulars,
means black hole. How […]