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Poetic medicine

December 18, 2022December 18, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Poetic medicine

It's a little bittersweet to think about how it is at the end of every semester — that mishmash of relief, pride, and sadness at wrapping up with a group of students. I'd be getting in the mood to grade a bunch of creative portfolios over the winter break if I were teaching. But I'm…

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Keep leaves

September 11, 2022October 9, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Keep leaves

When a leaf falls on your painting, you can keep on painting. And, you can write a poem to go with it. At the New York City Poetry Festival yesterday, one of the family-friendly activities hosted by the Poetry Society of New York did involve painting and writing poetry under the magnificent plane trees of…

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Inscrutable

July 8, 2022July 23, 2022Categories creative writing2 Comments on Inscrutable

Maybe everyone knows that the word “courage” came from the French word for “heart.” And it is the heart that leads into courageous action, more than any rational effort can do. Therefore, appeals to the heart should always make us more courageous, right? Maybe that’s true except in the cases of protective parents and similar…

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Reminder

May 28, 2022May 28, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Reminder

WordPress sends me an every-other-day reminder that it’s time to blog here. Okay, I guess I’m the one who set that reminder, but somehow I keep ignoring it, thinking no one is in any mood for poetry midst news of war, rising inflation, challenges to women’s health, election shenanigans, and now yet another horrific mass…

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End on end

December 31, 2021January 1, 2022Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on End on end

Here is a flat, seamless year’s end, in a pandemic seemingly without end. Given a lot of reflection, my hope has been to give it contour. Loss and hope weave themselves together, like threads in chambray melding into a single color. Love and anxiety as weft and warp conspire to drape us in silk. These…

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Last

November 10, 2021Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Last

I wonder if I’m noticing enough, even as I pause over fresh red leaves in the roadside next to the curb. There’s pleasure in writing poems, even breathless with exertion of reluctance. The last robin in our neighborhood to fly away for winter might have gone already, or might not yet. A poem waits and…

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Each singing

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Each singing

What do butterflies say? If a child asked me that, I’d say “listen.” This past Sunday, my neighbor and I walked up the newly built section of trail that leads from Nyack Beach State Park to the Long Path, which climbs to the peak of Hook Mountain. We met a woman named Felicia, who teaches…

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Real poetry

August 4, 2021August 14, 2021Categories creative writingLeave a Comment on Real poetry

Given a few lines, a poem can sprout wing-like leaves, sip rain, bud and blossom with color. Tomorrow’s Instapoetry event in downtown Nyack means we’ll all probably write a poem or two, or more. Given some pause, a poem can accelerate beyond speed limits. Given a few conspirators, a poem can admire your very act…

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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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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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