reading and writing a life
Dearest keen listeners, collectors of truth and emotion, rivulet by rivulet. You who wait for the light of a new day and recognize wisdom waiting at the edges of that light. Please don’t close your eyes. Not yet. Learning is my purpose. I can’t recall now just how long the thunderous epiphany thundered on the […]
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Dearest day laborers, night sweats, lucid dreamers, underpaid saviors. The early fading blooms of August flowers. I have no cure. I’m sorry. I am ashamed. I am feverish and tired and wearing a tread in borrowed optimism. I am reading. Wanting to read. Books won’t fit in my hands. Both eyes blur at the screen. […]
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Monday night I clicked some random shuffle to life, and a few hours later I had a newborn poem. Love when that happens. Astound me: Reach inside my head to find me. Switch off those old melodies meant to keep me in captivity, fading away with a faded-heart disease…
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Throughout the month of February, t.s. wright and I have been enjoying the Southeast Review’s Daily Writer’s Regimen. On Day Twenty-Two, Anne Valente’s Craft Talk, “Constellated Images” was featured. I will now share this with you. ANNE VALENTE “CONSTELLATED IMAGES” In his recent Writers’ Chronicle article,…
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Reading through Woolf’s A Writer’s Diary, published by her husband, Leonard Woolf, can be likened to trying to put a 10,000 piece 3D puzzle together while blindfolded. And then, just when I’m hopelessly lost, her voice comes through with such intense clarity and insight I am left…
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https://youtu.be/qSEAguoFE1A ? Listen until something really strikes you. What happens? Do emotions well up into mental images, words, a poetic narrative that surprises? Write and share with us!
Have y’all discovered Coursera? FREE college courses! Unless you’d like to earn an official certificate of completion, then the prices vary. I’ve participated in ModPo once — which was beyond terrific — and I’d love to do it again. Meanwhile, I have signed up for two other classes: Sharpened Visions (A Poetry Workshop), and The American South (It’s Stories, Music, and […]
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No, I’m not broaching the topic of Resolutions. Not exactly. When first I peeked into WordPress, I did so with the intention of finding a site capable of hosting all my writerly blatherings. I love poetry, dabble in fiction, and have a tendency to go on week-long…
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A few days ago, t.s. wright brought up the topic of Avoiding Cliches. Within that article was the mention of one of my favorite TV binge opportunities, The 100. I agree with pretty much everything t.s. said about the series, as well as the fact that such…
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I recently finished reading a book called “Hawley Book of the Dead” by Chrysler Szarlan. Over the first few pages, the first person narrator foreshadowed the death of her husband at least six different ways. It wasn’t subtle, she came right out and said, “On the day I…
Kathy Boles-Turner 