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marychristinedelea
Apr 12, 20231 min read
the way and the way things are by nila northSun
the way and the way things are by nila northSun gramma thinks about her grandchildren they’re losing the ways don’t know how to talk...
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marychristinedelea
Apr 9, 20232 min read
Easter Eggs: Writing Prompt
Use of the term "Easter Eggs" to refer to something hidden is, according to Dictionary.com, from the 1980s and the video games that I...
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marychristinedelea
Apr 9, 20231 min read
Spilled Sugar by Thylias Moss
Spilled Sugar by Thylias Moss I cannot forget the sugar on the table. The hand that spilled it was not that of my usual father, three...
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marychristinedelea
Apr 5, 20231 min read
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my...
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marychristinedelea
Apr 2, 20232 min read
Artificial Intelligence: Writing Prompt
First, if you are not aware of what is happening to some literary journals, click here and here and read these articles about AI-written...
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marychristinedelea
Apr 2, 20231 min read
From the Index To Breaking Up For Dummies by Philip Memmer
From the Index To Breaking Up For Dummies by Philip Memmer published in his chapbook Greatest Hits #262 (Pudding House Press) A abandoned...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 29, 20232 min read
At the Holocaust Museum by Alice Friman
At the Holocaust Museum December 1999 by Alice Friman Like Dante, we too are led down. The elevator that swooped us up and spewed us out,...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 26, 20231 min read
In Praise of the Insects that Remain Hidden in the Grass by J. Estanislao Lopez
In Praise of the Insects that Remain Hidden in the Grass by J. Estanislao Lopez published in LEON Literary Review, Issue #18: Poetry,...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 26, 20232 min read
I Don't Mean to Brag, But . . . : Writing Prompt
Trying to discern whether or not someone is a narcissist has become a favorite preoccupation for many Americans since 2018 (or...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 22, 20231 min read
Greta by Marjorie Power
Greta by Marjorie Power —after hearing Greta Thunberg’s speech at the U.N., 9/23/19 She’s a lungful of cold clean air in a foul-smelling...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 19, 20232 min read
True Love: Writing Prompt
This week's writing prompt is in two stages, and you need to promise (promise!) that you will complete Part I before looking ahead to...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 19, 20231 min read
True Love by Robert Penn Warren
True Love by Robert Penn Warren In silence the heart raves.It utters words Meaningless, that never had A meaning. I was ten, skinny,...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 15, 20231 min read
Quarantine by Eavan Boland
Quarantine by Eavan Boland published in her 2001 book, Code In the worst hour of the worst season of the worst year of a whole people a...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 12, 20231 min read
Imagine YOUR Neighbor: Writing Prompt
I don't always pull my prompts from the poem I posted, but when I do, it is a fairly blatant prompt. For this week's writing, imagine...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 12, 20231 min read
Imagining My Neighbor by Loretta Diane Walker
Imagining My Neighbor by Loretta Diane Walker published on Poem-a-Day, April 08, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets Now that night...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 8, 20231 min read
Sonnet to the Fifty-One Senators Who Voted Against the Women’s Health Protection Act by Joanne Durha
Sonnet to the Fifty-One Senators Who Voted Against the Women’s Health Protection Act by Joanne Durham published in Plum Tree Tavern,...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 5, 20232 min read
The Ghazal: Writing Prompt
If you are using this week's prompt to write a prose piece (or create visual art) or form poetry does not excite you at this point in...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 5, 20231 min read
Even the Rain by Agha Shahid Ali
Even the Rain by Agha Shahid Ali from his book Call Me Ishmael Tonight (Norton, 2003) What will suffice for a true-love knot? Even the...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 1, 20231 min read
What I Learned by R. Erica Doyle
What I learned by R. Erica Doyle published in The Rumpus, April 22, 2022 Why was there even An axe in the house there were thorns to...
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marychristinedelea
Feb 26, 20231 min read
It's a Word Buffet: Writing Prompt
I love buffets! I can try lots of different foods in small amounts. I don't have to decide between a garden salad and a Caesar salad--I...
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