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Peace and poetry

November 26, 2021November 27, 2021Categories creative writing, literature, writingLeave a Comment on Peace and poetry

It's a good day for a reblog of this list, in my slightly sardonic voice here, of reasons to give poetry books as holiday gifts. The shortest shortcut to peace is poetry. 'Tis the season... Top 20 reasons to give poetry books as gifts #20 - Won’t go out of fashion (because it isn’t fashionable…

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A river undercover

July 19, 2021Categories creative writing, literature, writingLeave a Comment on A river undercover

The world looks still damp, like me and my dog after getting ourselves caught in a midsummer-morning cloudburst. The writing circles and other literary events I used to organize before the pandemic are still on my mind. I only wanted it to rain poetry. Guiding creativity as work, as vocation, as dharma, is on my…

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Doing nothing

June 5, 2021July 11, 2021Categories creative writing, writing4 Comments on Doing nothing

Which is what I told my friend I was doing these days. But that was really a subterfuge. A creative mind never stops. Even when I seem still, there’s a process at work that I don’t understand or know anything about. I hide my process. I treat it like a living root: something that must…

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Careful, as with eggs

April 4, 2021Categories creative writing, If you want to make..., recipes, watercolor, writing1 Comment on Careful, as with eggs

When a poem is about to be, keep your hands ready. It might have words, but sometimes instead it has sounds, flashes of light and color, pressure like an April gale, a lift of wing. I always thought it strange that such fragile things as bird eggs are laid high in tree boughs. There’s that…

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Thought or bird

March 19, 2021Categories creative writing, If you want to make..., watercolor, writing1 Comment on Thought or bird

It's as necessary to listen to rain, and then to go for a walk in it, as it is to sit down with pen and notebook. I'm writing a poem in hope of unraveling my thoughts about the shootings in Atlanta this week. Imagine how snarled up those thoughts are for many, between experience and…

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By feather light

March 9, 2021Categories creative writing, watercolor, writingLeave a Comment on By feather light

Wren conversation - What is this watercolor shape — a pool of light or a sleeping fox, I ask myself. How much light does it take to make a feather, at rest in a wing? When does the number of brushstrokes accrue enough mindful interest to tell me the painting is done? Is a poem…

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Writing the present

January 30, 2018January 30, 2018Categories Children's art, creative writing, education, writingLeave a Comment on Writing the present

I call this walking off a cliff, knowing that a helicopter is right there to catch you. Knowing, but not seeing it in your conscious mind. Some of us write ourselves off the cliff and in that moment of falling, catch the void in a turn of phrase, in a poetic twist, or a sudden…

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A. Anupama is an Indian-American poet, watercolorist, essayist and critic. MFA graduate from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her new poetry chapbook Saffron Threaded is available from Dancing Girl Press.

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