Art Thief by Neal Bowers
Art Thief by Neal Bowers (published in his 1997 book, Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiaris, W.W. Norton) All art defines itself...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 281 min read
With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath by Linda Gregerson
With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath by Linda Gregerson (published in her 1996 book, The Woman Who Died in Her...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 281 min read
Growing Up: Prompt
Linda Gregerson's wonderful poem, "With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath," is today's poem on my blog. It is a...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 241 min read
Homecoming Tallahassee by Kavita Gandhi
Homecoming Tallahassee by Kavita Gandhi (published in The Loch Raven Review, Winter 2009) We passed into the city like sterile vessels...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 212 min read
Theory I’m Conspiring to Share by Kristin Berger
Theory I’m Conspiring to Share by Kristin Berger (published in her 2022 book, Earthwork, published by The Poetry Box Press) Love is...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 212 min read
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Creative Prompt
Kristin Berger's poem posted today here on this blog--which you should go and read now!--starts with the sentence "Love is truth."...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 171 min read
Sparus by Tolu Oloruntoba
Sparus by Tolu Oloruntoba for Anthony Bourdain (published in Under a Warm Green Linden, Issue 6, 2018) This neural mesh, the coral brain...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 142 min read
You Oughta Be in Pictures!: Creative Prompt
If you head over to today's blog poem, you will see I included a photo I took of Maya Angelou and Margaret Walker Alexander. Maya Angelou...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 141 min read
The Struggle Staggers Us by Margaret Walker Alexander
The Struggle Staggers Us by Margaret Walker Alexander (Originally published in Poetry, 1938) Our birth and death are easy hours, like...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 101 min read
Who Has The Whip-Hand Over Aimless Animals by Patricia Lockwood
Who Has The Whip-Hand Over Aimless Animals by Patricia Lockwood (published in Zone 3, Vol. 25, No. 2, Fall 2020) Who has the whip-hand...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 71 min read
Out, Out--by Robert Frost
Out, Out— by Robert Frost The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 71 min read
New Year, You Knew
This week's prompt is a little silly, but I think it may inspire some great results! Take the words "new" and "year" and put them in your...
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marychristinedelea
Jan 31 min read
Things We Will Forget about Whales by Laura Budofsky Wisniewski
Things We Will Forget about Whales by Laura Budofsky Wisniewski (published in Canary, Issue 47, Winter 2019-2020) How the shy ones sang...
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