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Yuletide Letter
Dear Yuletide Author,
I'm very excited for Yuletide this year. I'll be thrilled and happy to read your story!
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Wake
You guys, I just finished the best book! Wake by Robert J Sawyer. A Canadian author, woot!
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John Donne, two favourite sonnets
The Sun Rising
Busy old fool, unruly sun,
Why dost thou thus
Through windows and through curtains call on us?
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My First Poem, for National Poetry Month
This isn't the first poem I read as a kid, but it's the first poem I fell in love with. I was 10 or 11 and I'd picked up Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. After I finished, I went to the local library and made my way through every one of her books that they had. They had quite a few, including Charmed Life and Black Maria, and I ended ( Read more... ) -
For National Poetry Month
If there's any doubt that poetry is relevant, meaningful and accessible in today's world...
These two women both moved me to tears. Not the sad kind: the kind where I'm so glad that I live in a world with people this incredible.
Mayda del Valle 'The Gift'
Suheir Hammad 'First Writing Since' -
Shizuko's Daughter
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz ( Read more... )
