Get Started Right Writing Task: 009
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Get each week started on the right foot with Get Started Right Writing
Tasks. For this week’s task, write something about spring.
The post Get Started Ri...
Roots and the Meaning of Life
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They are so far out of sight for us, creatures of the upper world, that we
don’t readily think of them. But as soon as we do, as soon as we plunge the
mind...
Following this Important Case
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I am hoping the Father gets to protect his daughter from her dangerous
Grandparents.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/04/metro/ri-grandparents-rights-...
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Yesterday, after work, we drove to the beach on Lido Key, and here we are,
standing in water the color of sea glass, being happy together.
This has been...
Hours and Hours
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… Outdoors was a kid’s world, and with it came a sense of freedom … This is
from Toy Time! By Christopher Byrne (2013): … Most Boomers and Gen-X kids
remem...
Newst Haikus
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Help Your Dimwitted Co-workers If they’re found to be totally useless,
they’ll be made supervisor. Backassward Seeking a drained swamp yet
electing the Cre...
Stay away from the pool
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My mother & I were visiting a friend of hers who was living in an apartment
complex that I regarded at the time as positively palatial, what for the
commun...
In Memory of Ed Ochester, Poet & Editor, RIP
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We have asked Ed Ochester (above) to edit our Sunday poetry pages for the
next few months. Here is one of Ed's poems: March of the Penguins The
editor of N...
“In spite of all the learned have said ...”
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Philip Freneau
Philip Freneau (1752-1852) was a journalist and poet in the early years our
country was forming. And, oh, by the way, I once wrote an under...
Balance is important in design
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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo
ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis Theme natoque penatibus et
magnis dis ...
Proof of Life
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Um, hello? Is this thing on?
I am writing from the Central Time Zone, as we have officially moved to
Oxford, Mississippi for the academic year! And I have ...
Lana K. W. Austin
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Lana K. W. Austin’s poems, short stories, and reviews have recently been
featured in *Mid-AmericanReview, Sou’wester, Columbia Journal, Zone 3,
Appalachia...
The translucent veil of life
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Haha, so the truth comes out. Having 2 children is A LOT more work than 1!
I haven't been able to get out of the rocking chair more than a few
moment...
On the move
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*Gal about town, photo by Bob Perkoski*
Dear readership,
Your humble hostess has been doing a whole lot of what is depicted in
today's photo: walking aro...
Strawberry Month
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The strawberry sweets at Lagusta's Luscious this month are insane! I
missed out last year and decided that this year I would take full
advantage.
I luck...
AWP in Minneapolis, and recommended reading
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Again I've been away from this blog longer than I'd intended. Much busy
with writing, and reading, and life in general.
I'll be attending the annual AWP co...
Remixing the World's Problems Results
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The one thing about judging poetry is that it often takes me much longer
than I expect. For everyone who has waited so patiently for me to get these
result...
In a Landscape - The Playlist
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John Cage, “In a Landscape”
Bob Dylan, “My Back Pages”
Neil Young, “Ambulance Blues”
The Twilight Zone Theme
Babylon 5 Theme
Simon & Garfunkel, “Richard Co...
6 comments:
What I'd give for dream to produce my own "Kubla Khan"--- laudamum free,of course.
David Milliken
thetortoisefactor.com
By the end of his life, he was downing that stuff in large quantities. But oh, such poetry!
Oops, misspelled laudanum!
David Milliken
Oh, such poetry in all the Romantics. I can't leave them.
David Milliken
Ah, that mysterious Person. The ultimate deus ex machina.
Some people love nothing so much as being interrupted at the right moment.
I love that! I have often wondered about the person from Porlock. Stevie Smith is brilliant! And the fragment!
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