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Poetic medicine

Poetic medicine

December 18, 2022December 18, 2022
Keep leaves

Keep leaves

September 11, 2022October 9, 2022
Inscrutable

Inscrutable

July 8, 2022July 23, 2022
Reminder

Reminder

May 28, 2022May 28, 2022
End on end

End on end

December 31, 2021January 1, 2022
Last

Last

November 10, 2021
Each singing

Each singing

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021
Real poetry

Real poetry

August 4, 2021August 14, 2021
Doing nothing

Doing nothing

June 5, 2021July 11, 2021

Why buy

November 25, 2022November 25, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Why buy

Just a reminder if you’re shopping this weekend that poetry books make beautiful gifts. Some nice sales, some good reasons…

Warmth aligned

November 23, 2022November 23, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Warmth aligned

The curve of each line of each branch in each tree smiles at us. Clear, dark skies keep pouring heaps of stars into the lines. Silhouetted in the shrubs next to the road, several deer watch us pass by. Gratitude moves in all directions. I wish all poems were like this. It might take me…

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Bio-digressive

November 14, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Bio-digressive

Making art is a good way to get to know yourself and others, and it usually feels good. Sometimes not. Sometimes you can get in trouble, as my daughter did in her art class the other day when she was being less-than-cautious with scissors. She's in high school now and definitely knows better, but when…

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Open or closed

November 6, 2022Categories creative writing2 Comments on Open or closed

My favorite word is “or,” a hinge on which possibilities can open and close securely, which is an obvious necessity when using prose. But it’s more than that to me. Ask a question using “or,” and you will understand. It requires you to imagine what might be. If you really wish to complete the thought…

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Red copper gold

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Red copper gold

Landscapes fade to gold around here. Gold is their resting state, revealed only just before the dark. Whole hillsides melt into caramel. Sunrise seems to last all day long, but the light dissolves a little more week by week. Light a candle before you read a poem at night. To make anything with this landscape,…

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A fused music

October 23, 2022October 24, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on A fused music

Perfect for a Diwali mood, I’m listening to the live broadcast of the Ragas Live Festival, a 24-hour cycle of ragas and raga-inspired world music at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, 8pm 10/22 until 8pm 10/23. Listening in on WKCR is an annual tradition for me. A transcendent night, just begun. Already at 9pm, a pair…

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Invented words

October 15, 2022October 15, 2022Categories creative writing1 Comment on Invented words

At least it’s an affordable luxury, this craft of poetry. Catch a phrase loitering around the alley of your mind, and find a place to keep it. Pretty phrases are as plentiful as the red-gold leaves turning the road into a bed of glowing embers. I'm pretty sure I spend more on my poetry practice…

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Symbol song

October 9, 2022October 9, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Symbol song

We should sing ourselves awake. While I don't think poetry is exactly the opposite of a lullaby, I think it can rouse and invigorate us. Poetry is both a way of admitting that we often sleepwalk through life and a way to call upon a certain, deeper self to advise. Since this is about ourselves…

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Marigold mind

October 2, 2022October 2, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Marigold mind

Poets are monster slayers. I have always thought so, but I don't picture a pen as the weapon. A pen is a pretty wimpy object, if you really look at one. And I don't think our weapon is some mystical effect arising from poets' voices, which aren't any more shatteringly shrill than anyone else's. Poets…

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Because insight

September 18, 2022September 20, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Because insight

Yesterday at my annual eye exam, the optometrist told me to get myself a pair of reading glasses. Here they are--inevitable lenses through which I'll have to gaze at poems and paintings from now on. I'm not complaining. My blurry vision is a reminder to me -- don't take this for granted. This is also…

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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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