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Outside the window
A parking lot, and cars in the lot Minivans and trucks, families and farmhands. This is where I am, a suburb closing in on farmland a...
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asj
Dec 17, 20161 min read
Is anyone else out there in tears over Patti Smith's performance?
I am, I am. I wish I could write something to appreciate how much her writing makes me feel, how it's both so magical and so earthly. How...
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asj
Mar 30, 20161 min read
poetry as honesty
Poems, like most great art, are the art of telling the truth of life just as we live it. I learned this in the work of Joy Harjo, Mary...
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asj
Feb 27, 20161 min read
#poetry: By its right name
#poem #poetry #becoming #amwriting #reminder #love
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asj
Jan 5, 20161 min read
on poetry
From Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me Poetry as the end of language, or the edge of language. Poetry as the point of contact...
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asj
Jan 4, 20161 min read
Keep still even as you keep moving
Were you ever told to keep silent? Keep still, be quiet. Save it for later. There was one time when this was a gift: I think of the Grand...
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