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Month: April 2015

Posted on April 28, 2015

Four Days, 1948 Miles, and a Few Photos

On Day One she pointed the tiny car north and drove in the middle lane through multiple construction zones, truck brakes crying all around her, billboards and fast food crowding the horizon until she angled northeast into the California desert, where northbound cars pushed 80 and she stopped to get gas and pee at a … Continue reading Four Days, 1948 Miles, and a Few Photos

Posted on April 25, 2015

Prose Poem of the Week, by Tomas Transtromer

Right now I’m on a road trip, driving from California to Minnesota. Yesterday I hiked in Zion National Park and then drove for many hours through unfamiliar Utah mountains. These were mountains that seemed to demand silence, so I turned off the music and contemplated them, listening to what they had to say to me, … Continue reading Prose Poem of the Week, by Tomas Transtromer

Posted on April 19, 2015

Poem of the Week, by Denise Levertov

1) Once, a long time ago, I stood at a pay phone in southern Florida, trying desperately to make the person on the other end of the line stay on the line. As I talked, an albino frog jumped from a hiding place onto my clenched hand and stayed there like a blob of putty. … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Denise Levertov

Posted on April 11, 2015

Poem of the Week, by Tina Kelley

Sometimes I lie in the hammock at my shack in Vermont and look up –way up– at the two white pines it’s roped between. One of those white pines is so huge that it scares my friend. She thinks it holds too much power, like a keeper of the gates, but that’s what I like … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Tina Kelley

Posted on April 4, 2015

Poem of the Week, by Naomi Shihab Nye

A couple of years ago I read that Naomi Shihab Nye was going to be speaking at a local school that night, free, everyone welcome to attend. I zipped over and sat right in the front row of a small room and drank in everything she said and everything she read. If my favorite foods … Continue reading Poem of the Week, by Naomi Shihab Nye

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Wild & Precious Life

a collection of beautiful words.....

Alison McGhee

Political Vibes

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.

Sew Mariefleur

sewing a handmade wardrobe

Words for the Year

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. -jack gilbert

GOOD BLACK NEWS

The Good Things Black People Do, Give and Receive All Over The World

O at the Edges

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

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The Best of It

Thoughts on the world around me

unbolt me

the literary asylum

Musings of a mad woman

Bipolar is my superpower

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