In the News: Prompt
For your inspiration this week, take a headline from the news--don't read the article (unless you really, really want to) and use the...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 29, 20231 min read
Scars by Truing Tran
Scars by Truing Tran (published in North Dakota Quarterly, Summer 1993) My father’s body is a map, a record of his journey. He carries a...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 25, 20231 min read
Tired Sex by Chana Bloch
Tired Sex by Chana Bloch (published inThe Atlantic, December 1997) Trying to strike a match in a matchbook that has lain all winter under...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 22, 20231 min read
Quietly Moving: Creative Prompt
Today's blog poem, A.E. Stringer's "Sunday Morning, Cumberland Gap" conjures up both movement (through space and through time) and...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 22, 20231 min read
Sunday Morning, Cumberland Gap by A.E. Stringer
Sunday Morning, Cumberland Gap by A.E. Stringer published in Still, Summer 2015 Black cat appears under my roadside picnic table....
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marychristinedelea
Oct 18, 20231 min read
Autumn by Siegfried Sassoon
Autumn by Siegfried Sassoon October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves The bronzed battalions of the stricken wood In whose lament I...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 15, 20231 min read
Autumnal by Louise Glück
Autumnal by Louise Glück (from her 1976 book, Descending Figure, The Ecco Press, NY) Public sorrow, the acquired gold of the leaf, the...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 15, 20232 min read
All Hallows: Writing Prompt
Louise Glück died on Friday, October 13, 2023, at the age of 80. She grew up in Hewlett, a Nassau County hamlet on Long Island. She...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 11, 20231 min read
October by Robert Frost
October by Robert Frost O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild, Should waste...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 8, 20232 min read
Write to the Music: Writing Prompt
As usual (although not always), this week's prompt takes its cue from today's blog poem, Middle-Aged Karaoke by Timothy Houghton. But you...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 8, 20231 min read
Middle-Aged Karaoke by Timothy Houghton
Middle-Aged Karaoke by Timothy Houghton Published in SNReview, Spring/Summer 2008 A big woman jumps out of a booth deftly, avoiding...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 4, 20231 min read
The Fury of Beautiful Bones by Anne Sexton
The Fury of Beautiful Bones by Anne Sexton (from The Complete Poems, Houghton Mifflin, 1982) Sing me a thrush, bone. Sing me a nest of...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 1, 20231 min read
Sugar or Storm: Prompt
Two choices this week . . . or combine this two things for more of a challenge! Choice one: describe the end of a storm as Jean Toomer...
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marychristinedelea
Oct 1, 20231 min read
Storm Ending by Jean Toomer
Storm Ending by Jean Toomer (from his 1923 poetic novel, Cane) Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like...
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