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Approaching word

February 4, 2023February 4, 2023Categories creative writing1 Comment on Approaching word

Poems are not about anything. Their titles aren’t the subjects, usually only indicating a partial opening into the movement of language. Maybe poems indicate where we’ve been or where we’d like to go (or not go), but that’s just the outermost part. What they are deeply about is the same thing that alarm clocks are…

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Summarily admit

December 28, 2022Categories creative writing1 Comment on Summarily admit

The way ice falls on us during winter holidays fills the imagination with shapes. Single-digit cold and drift-covered roads meant dangerous driving from home to hometown for me and many others this week. But I'm stubborn (as most poets inevitably must be). The pastoral mood exerted its irresistible pull, and we braved salted highways and…

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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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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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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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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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