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Poems for the Season
Sometimes with my Christmas cards I include a favorite seasonal poem. So consider this post a greeting card for the season. First, I can’t resist sharing the poem that has been my meditation this Advent. I always treasure Advent’s special spirit of hushed longing. This year I’ve found it expressed in a poem not written specifically for Advent: Robert Bly’s “The Roof Nail,” in his new collection Talking into the Ear of a Donkey....
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A Yarn to Share
At my local yarn shop, we were sitting on the couches talking about what knitting means in our lives. As the conversation revved up, with everyone tossing out comments about how knitting can be at once meditative, creative, solitary, and communal, one knitter threw in, “It’s like we all have a yarn to share.” As we all laughed at the pun, someone else added wryly: “Yarns are stories knitters tell each other around the fire.” I steal this anecdote from....
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In Line with Truth?
When I first began to think of myself as a writer, a few decades ago, I’d type onto file cards the wisdom of writers I wanted to emulate and thumbtack the cards to the bulletin board above my desk. I had several lines about the writer’s vocation by Flannery O’Connor and G.K. Chesterton. But the one I’m recalling right now is by Simone Weil. I no longer have the file card....
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The Muse in Cyberspace
As I was biking today, a squirrel ran across the road with a big nut in its mouth. Squirreling it away, I thought. Then I thought: sign of autumn. Then I thought: that means packing up for Tucson. Which means (I sighed to myself)....
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Barbies’ Communion
When I first heard of T.S. Poetry Press, I assumed that the T.S. was drawn from Eliot fame. But a visit to their website corrected my impression. Behind the Press’s founding was a game started by some inventive poets called “tweetspeak.” It’s a “Twitter poetry party,” a one-hour bash where everyone tweets a 140-character poem with the hashtag #tspoetry. A prompt is provided by @tspoetry. “You write a few lines of poetry in response to the prompt and then play off the other participants’ lines,” the rules say. So the TSP folks are poets who love fun....
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Issue 71
Fiction by Larry Woiwode, interview with Joe Henry, art by Fabian Debora, essay by Barry Moser.
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