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I started a Fable book club a while back. It’s called Poetry for Poets and is still pretty small but has been fun so far. Somehow we ended up reading a poet from a different country every month and I decided to try to keep that going. Here’s our previous reading list (links are to
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It’s always an interesting thing, to decide that a project has gone in a completey wrong direction and the only course left is to scrub the whole thing and start again. I had done this with my debut poetry collection several times back when I thought I was writing a memoir. It still is, in
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That one time that sustained eye contact kept me from quitting, even though I really wanted to.
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At a Mardi Gras parade in Slidell, I saw her. Antheia is the goddess of swamps, flower wreaths, and human love. She is untamed beauty, friendship, nature, heat, and water. She is the perfect goddess to personify the idea of feral women in today’s society, especially in this little part of the country where the
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When I was much younger, I read Stephen King’s On Writing. I had always been an avid reader, but that was the first time it really occurred to me that reading was important to writing. It has since been it’s own struggle. Life got in the way a lot, still does sometimes, but something else
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One of the early lessons was that each thing is a step to the next thing, just a step. None of it can be done all at once. Step carefully, but know that this step is not everything that this is. The realization came in boot camp. It was just 8 weeks, fun in some
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