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During April, I gave my students poems. Poetry was one of the fatalities of the misguided school reforms of a couple decades ago which insisted English teachers toss most of our curriculum in for a focus on nonfiction. Don’t get me wrong, I had always included nonfiction in my curriculum, but we all deserve poetry…
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This last assignment is poetry. Below are two 20-minute poem prompts. Choose. IMPORTANT: My 20-minute exercises were inspired by prompts provided in the back of Dorianne Laux and Kim Addonizio’s marvelous craft book, The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (W.W. Norton, 1997). Their original exercises are much better than mine. (You…
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Back when I was an art student, I thought I might earn money, if not actually a living, from my art. I envisioned a dramatic difference in my life compared to how I was raised. I was first a Ceramic Art major at the University of Washington. In the clay side of the Fire Arts…
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Hello. Before the revision strategy, a confession. I have been in a bit of a muddle lately. I “turned off” the news two days ago—tossed the email updates unread, and stopped checking news sources online or Johns Hopkins statistics. I think it did me some good to take a break. For example, I noticed I’d…
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Gary and I were awake at three this morning. I am trying not to read the news, not to compulsively check statistics for an entire day. I deleted unread all the news in my mailbox right away this morning without even reading headlines. Instead, I worked on the story, revising what will go live today.…
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IDYLL: a simple descriptive work in prose or poetry that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or which suggests a mood of peace and contentment. One of the things going on in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, perhaps the main thing, has to do with the essential decency and indecency of human beings.…
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Last night, just before sunset, a deer appeared on the shore. Not a good thing in daylight. She was wet and confused and kept to the surf line. We see deer tracks frequently in the sand on our morning walks, but never the two deer themselves. This one moved along just fine, though she…
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Today I will bake rolls and roast green beans. My mother would have made lamb, but we are vegetarian and I have a casserole of mac&cheese already made and ready to go in the oven. I found fresh blueberries on our weekly grocery run, so there will be a pie. No ice cream, but blueberry…
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Nurses, doctors, firefighters, the EMTs who answer calls, ambulance drivers, therapists, technicians, and pharmacists. A local hospital administrator must leave her infant son to ensure medical care is available for the rest of us. Like other essential services, children need education and local teachers are still at work, striving to accomplish what they can without…
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