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Aug
Renewal
This summer, we traveled for five weeks visiting family and close friends, dedicating focused time to small groups of people
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12
Aug
Pub day
A book I wrote – had inadvertently been writing for the last ten years – is out in the world today. Writers
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05
Aug
月亮代表我的心
Exactly one year ago, I came across this post by Carolyn Yoo [^1] about how she aligns her creative energy
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16
Jun
At the picnic many years ago
At the 4th of July picnic many years ago, visiting our mother’s older sister in Indianapolis, I was grateful
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03
May
(Almost!) 30 days of cut-up poems
I am so glad my colleague invited me to join her in writing a poem a day during the month
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02
Apr
An invitation to engage
Poetry was never a big part of my reading upbringing. For Chinese class, we had to memorize classic Tang dynasty
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31
Mar
The cost of our attention
My attention has been splintered and frayed, like the smashed up bristles of a very old paintbrush that does not
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16
Feb
The wild & gentle female energy of horses
I was never a horse girl. I did not relate, when, in the 1980s, most young girls seemed to go
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05
Feb
Magic beans – an invitation to try this poetry prompt
The pantoum is an old Malay poetic form that was brought to the west by the French and in recent
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21
Jan
Hermit crabs
While renters are unburdened by the weight of home maintenance, they must succumb to the whims of their landlords, which
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