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Month: January 2013

Posted on January 28, 2013

There is a sparkling choir

Snow fell yesterday in the city in which you live, and like all new snow after weeks of no-snow, it transformed the ugly into the beautiful. Goodbye, brownish clots of street-worn slush. Hello, soft white velvet. At night, when the snow that has fallen all day ceases to fall and the streetlights come on and … Continue reading There is a sparkling choir

Posted on January 26, 2013

Poem of the Week, by Moya Cannon

Viola D’Amore – Moya Cannon Sometimes, love does die, but sometimes, a stream on porous rock, it slips down into the inner dark of a hill, joins with other hidden streams to travel blind as the white fish that live in it. It forsakes one underground streambed for the cave that runs under it. Unseen, … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Moya Cannon

Posted on January 19, 2013

Poem of the Week, by Dorianne Laux

Dark Charms – Dorianne Laux Eventually the future shows up everywhere: those burly summers and unslept nights in deep lines and dark splotches, thinning skin. Here’s the corner store grown to a condo, the bike reduced to one spinning wheel, the ghost of a dog that used to be, her trail no longer trodden, just … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Dorianne Laux

Posted on January 12, 2013

Poem of the Week, by Maureen Micus Crisick

Suppose – Maureen Micus Crisick the ghetto stars pinned to cloth could lift from history like angels soaring to the sky. The air which holds cinders of Buddhist robes, burned hair of ones who doused themselves, set fire, suppose the plume of smoke becomes clear and white. What did I say? I said: what if … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Maureen Micus Crisick

Posted on January 5, 2013

Poem of the Week, by Alden Nowlan

Great Things Have Happened – Alden Nowlan We were talking about the great things that have happened in our lifetimes; and I said, “Oh, I suppose the moon landing was the greatest thing that has happened in my time.” But, of course, we were all lying. The truth is the moon landing didn’t mean one-tenth … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Alden Nowlan

Posted on January 3, 2013

Two one-day workshops, March 23 and April 20

Greetings, writers! Are you looking to kickstart a particular writing project, rejuvenate your writing, or simply experience a one-afternoon writing adventure? I’m teaching two one-day workshops, “The Order in Which It’s Told” and “Tense and Point of View,” at the fabulous Loft in the fabulous Open Book building, March 23 and April 20. These are … Continue reading Two one-day workshops, March 23 and April 20

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Foundation Operation X for languages, cultures and perspectives

motherwellmagdotcom.wordpress.com/

Telling all sides of the parenting story

Tzivia Gover

Waking Up to Your Dreams

The Baldwin Lexicon

On James Baldwin and Diverse Literature

Mary's Plan for Parenting Her Cancer

Putting those recalcitrant toddler cancer cells to bed...

bree crowder

a globby bloogie by lenore look

your own PDK for writing

Wild & Precious Life

a collection of beautiful words.....

Objects of my Affections

Objects, Memory and Meaning

Embodying Democracy

interrobangs

Words by Winter

If it can't be said in a hundred words, then it can't be said in a thousand.

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sewing a handmade wardrobe

Words for the Year

"drink from the well of your self and begin again" ~charles bukowski

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Musings on poetry, language, perception, numbers, food, and anything else that slips through the cracks.

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Thoughts on the world around me

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