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imaginethepossibilities.blog
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| | | | | There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. -Toni Morrison This isn't the post I was expecting to write. Numb. Shell-shocked. Devastated. These are all adjectives I've heard to describe the feelings many... | |
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nixthecomfortzone.com
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| | | | | For the past several years I've enjoyed the creative prompts for the New Year Poetry Challenge (NYPC) from the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center. Each day from mid-December to mid-January, they offer up an original and rich prompt, encouraging you to take it in any direction you'd like. You even have the option to send in one... | |
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| | | | | Last week I had the privilege of attending a special exhibit of Mary Cassatt's work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Some of the paintings were accompanied by early sketches so that viewers could see the study and revision work that were part of Cassatt's process. Of course I couldn't help thinking about revision in... | |
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| | | In vino veritas My relationship to poetryis much like mine to wineI don't know the terminologybut I know what I likewhat flows into mewith soft notes of currantor spicy peppersubtle pleasures thathave me sipping moreand slipping into giddy Once someone talked to meabout the poetic use of anaphoraand I momentarily picturedelegant Greek vasescrusted in timeholders... | ||
