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The First Circle
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. May 18, 2016. Prose poem: contradiction in terms, right? I bring this up in the context of Jehanne Dubrow’s latest book, The Arranged Marriage,. April 1, 2016. Literary journal, and I had the chance to catch up with my friend John Hennessy, who is the editor. Someone actually asked for my card. Do poets have cards? Grateful I saw it. January 22, 2016. More recently, I picked up Flowers for Algernon. If you ever reed this Miss Kinnian dont be sorry for m...
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About Shawna Downes | Chasing the Muse
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Notes on art, life, writing, and travel freshly penned five times weekly. My name is Shawna and I like to arrange words into stories, blogs, poems, lists, and things. I live in fabulously weird Portland, Oregon, USA with my husband, Matthew. He’s a Biology major and a polyglot; I’m an English major and a graphic designer. It makes for strange conversations. We both grew up in the Pacific Northwest and have wanderlust for foreign places. Subscribe to receive updates via RSS feed. From Austen to Vigée Le B...
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21 days in a carry on | Chasing the Muse
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Notes on art, life, writing, and travel freshly penned five times weekly. 21 days in a carry on. I’m headed across the pond for 22 days with nothing except one carry-on, one personal item, and one TSA regulation 3-1-1 bag. Here’s how. I’ll be lugging along the smallest one, which meets the standard regulation size limit of 22 x 14 x 9 inches. I recommend a rolling suitcase over a duffel bag or a backpack (unless you are actually backpacking). Good Now let’s move on to:. What else is staying home? The bas...
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From Austen to Vigée Le Brun | Chasing the Muse
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Notes on art, life, writing, and travel freshly penned five times weekly. From Austen to Vigée Le Brun. The way I see it, there were two approaches I could have taken for my one and only full day in London: I could take it easy and limit myself to a normal daily itinerary, or I could go crazy. Guess which one I chose. Every traveler experiences that moment of doubt: the moment. They wiggle the knob to what they think is an at-least-semi-warm-but-not-scalding temperature and press the button, but. Even af...
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Stump The Librarian | A One-Legged Librarian's Catolog | Page 2
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A One-Legged Librarian's Catolog. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newer posts →. Next Door to the Dead. November 3, 2015. Yesterday was Day of the Dead (Dia de Muertos), a time, especially in Mexico, for people to gather at cemeteries and pray for their deceased loved ones. As the leaves drift off the trees and the acorns pop on rooftops, I often, for reflection and remembrance, read and write poetry this time of year. The day made me think about. Next Door to the Dead. Day of the Dead.
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Stump the librarian | Stump The Librarian
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A One-Legged Librarian's Catolog. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: Stump the librarian. January 14, 2016. On a recent blue-skied and windy day, I walked the Orange Avenue pier in Fairhope. The sun was hanging low in the winter sky and a large pine tree shadowed me as I stepped on the boardwalk. Mobile Bay was choppy, frothy, and brown. My eyes, sheltered by sunglasses, teared up as I stared into the west wind. Osprey were plentiful around Waquoit Bay in East Falmouth...
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2014 Denny C. Plattner Awards | Appalachian Heritage
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Click here to navigate. 2014 Denny C. Plattner Awards. 2014 Denny C. Plattner Awards. February 6, 2015 ♦. No Comments on 2014 Denny C. Plattner Awards. Creative nonfiction), and acclaimed poet Kathleen Driskell. Winner: Patti Frye Meredith, “The Big Chair”. Honorable Mention: Jordan Farmer, “Lost in the Flood”. Judged by Denise Giardina. Giardina says: Meredith’s story is carefully crafted, her characters are fully realized and believable, and their lives are ultimately moving. Well done.”. Thinking abou...
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Sherry Chandler, Poet
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Sherry Chandler, Poet. Weaving a New Eden. Dance The Black-eyed Girl. My Will and Testament Are On The Desk. Available now from Wind Publications. Written to observe 40 years of marriage to TR Williams, the woodcarver of the title, this collection of lyric poems celebrates a mature love and its place, a small farm in Kentucky, much of which Chandler and Williams have allowed to revert to natural grasslands and groves. Sometimes a freight train crawls. Along our afternoon, small. If the weather's right,.
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