Arizona by Kaitlyn McNab
Arizona by Kaitlyn McNab (published in Electric Lit, Issue 171, 2021) I want to be whisked away to Arizona and kissed in the depression...
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marychristinedelea
- 4 days ago
- 1 min
Poems I Probably Won’t Write About My Stepfather by Jennifer Stewart Miller
Poems I Probably Won’t Write About My Stepfather by Jennifer Stewart Miller (published in Crab Creek Review, March 25, 2021) On Holding...
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marychristinedelea
- 4 days ago
- 1 min
Prompt: Like Santa's List, But Different
This week's prompt is easy for any writer or artist: you are asked to make a list. For poets, this means a List Poem. History is full of...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 29
- 1 min
Thanks by W.S. Merwin
Thanks by W.S. Merwin published in Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2005) Listen with the night falling we are...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 26
- 2 min
Almost heaven, West Virginia: Prompt
Your prompt for this week popped into my head as I looked for a poem to post today from Robert Wood Lynn's incredible collection, Mothman...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 26
- 1 min
(The Mothman Leaves the Used Car Lot Empty-Handed) by Robert Wood Lynn
(The Mothman Leaves the Used Car Lot Empty-Handed) by Robert Wood Lynn published in his book, Mothman Apologia, from Yale University...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 22
- 1 min
Thanksgiving by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Thanksgiving by Ella Wheeler Wilcox We walk on starry fields of white And do not see the daisies; For blessings common in our sight We...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 19
- 1 min
Love in a Time of Climate Change by Craig Santos Perez
Love in a Time of Climate Change by Craig Santos Perez (published in his book, Habitat Threshold, 2020, Omnidawn) recycling Pablo...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 19
- 2 min
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Sky (From Pollution): Prompt
Craig Santos Perez is one of the best poets writing environmentally-aware poetry these days. His poem posted on my blog today, "Love in a...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 15
- 1 min
Butsuma by Bern Mulvey
Butsuma by Bern Mulvey (published in his 2008 book, The Fat Sheep Everyone Wants, CSU Press) Time to meet the relatives, only they’re...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 12
- 1 min
Let's Keep Things Light: Creative Prompt
The last poems posted on my blog, prior to today's post, are all serious and intense and powerful. Each one tells a bit of a woman's...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 12
- 1 min
A Drink with Something In It by Ogden Nash
A Drink with Something In It by Ogden Nash There is something about a Martini, A tingle remarkably pleasant; A yellow, a mellow Martini;...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 8
- 1 min
Enough by Suzanne Buffam
Enough by Suzanne Buffam (from her 2010 book, The Irrationalist, published by Canarium Book) I am wearing dark glasses inside the house...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 5
- 2 min
Obey the Aubade: Creative Prompt
I have been very interested in aubades lately--both reading and writing them. I think what is drawing me to them is all of the...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 5
- 1 min
Aubade with Ravens by Jessica Lynn Suchon
Aubade with Ravens by Jessica Lynn Suchon (published in Pinch, Fall 2019) When you sleep, the moon plucks hurt from my palm like a loose...
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marychristinedelea
- Nov 1
- 1 min
Across Wyoming by Kari Despain
Across Wyoming by Kari Despain (published in Rockvale Review, November 2019) driving for dawn, a wind storm shaking the November...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 29
- 1 min
In the News: Prompt
For your inspiration this week, take a headline from the news--don't read the article (unless you really, really want to) and use the...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 29
- 1 min
Scars by Truing Tran
Scars by Truing Tran (published in North Dakota Quarterly, Summer 1993) My father’s body is a map, a record of his journey. He carries a...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 25
- 1 min
Tired Sex by Chana Bloch
Tired Sex by Chana Bloch (published inThe Atlantic, December 1997) Trying to strike a match in a matchbook that has lain all winter under...
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marychristinedelea
- Oct 22
- 1 min
Quietly Moving: Creative Prompt
Today's blog poem, A.E. Stringer's "Sunday Morning, Cumberland Gap" conjures up both movement (through space and through time) and...
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