Category: Good Writing
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David Biespiel's 10 things successful poets do
DAVID BIESPIEL’S POETRY WIRE: 10 THINGS SUCCESSFUL POETS DO BY DAVID BIESPIEL 10. They Get Over Themselves Yehuda Amichai says, “I think when you’re a poet you have to forget you’re a poet — a real poet doesn’t draw attention to the fact he’s a poet. The reason a poet is a poet is to…
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Ugly truths
What happens when you really let someone go? Really let someone go, not just moving across the country or unfriending them on (ugh) Facebook, but when you really begin to purge their presence in your body; the memories, smells, clothes that no longer fit so they gifted to you? I’ve been trying at night, when…
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A LETTER TO MY DOG, EXPLORING THE HUMAN CONDITION – Andrea Gibson
“Humans hold so tight to the leash of life, but you will roll in anything dead and wear it like perfume.” – Andrea Gibson
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Our Melissa
Our beautiful Melissa has part of her new memoir published in Parnassus – you can buy the current issue there, but here’s an excerpt taken from Little Star Journal: When it became apparent by my mid-twenties that I could not live by myself or in communal housing or anywhere except the hospital, I moved in…
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The Dream, by Felix Pollak
He dreamed of an open window. A vagina, said his psychiatrist. Your divorce, said his mistress. Suicide, said an ominous voice within him. It means you should close the window or you’ll catch cold, said his mother. His wife said nothing. He dared not tell her such a dangerous dream. — I love this poem…
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Slack Tide
“A doctor told me once, I feel too much. I said so does God, that’s why you can see the Grand Canyon from the moon,” Andrea Gibson from Jellyfish —- When I was a girl, we’d camp by the ocean and once, I waded into the water, cutting my foot on a shell. From that…