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It's a Word Buffet: Writing Prompt
I love buffets! I can try lots of different foods in small amounts. I don't have to decide between a garden salad and a Caesar salad--I...

marychristinedelea
Feb 26, 20231 min read
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Silver Falls by Melody Wilson
Silver Falls by Melody Wilson published in Cleaver Magazine, 2021 We have driven east this bright afternoon, the two of us, young parents...

marychristinedelea
Feb 26, 20231 min read
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So Chinese Girl by Dorothy Chan
So Chinese Girl by Dorothy Chan published in The Cincinnati Review, 2018 Anyone who makes tasty food has to be a good person, because...

marychristinedelea
Feb 22, 20232 min read
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What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver by Geffrey Davis
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver by Geffrey Davis published in Revising the Storm (2014, BOA Editions) During the last 50 miles back...

marychristinedelea
Feb 19, 20231 min read
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Family Lore: Writing Prompt
Today's prompt was inspired by a poem I wrote recently. My father and I were driving together (no worries--I was the one driving!) and he...

marychristinedelea
Feb 19, 20231 min read
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February by Bill Christophersen
February by Bill Christophersen published in Poetry, February 2002 The cold grows colder, even as the days grow longer, February's...

marychristinedelea
Feb 18, 20231 min read
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Ode to Odes: Writing Prompt
I love odes, as you can tell by the number of odes I have posted on this blog. I especially love odes like the one by Kevin Young that I...

marychristinedelea
Feb 12, 20231 min read
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Ode to the Midwest by Kevin Young
Ode to the Midwest by Kevin Young published in Poetry, July/August 2007 The country I come from Is called the Midwest —Bob Dylan I...

marychristinedelea
Feb 12, 20231 min read
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History Lesson by Natasha Tretheway
History Lesson by Natasha Tretheway published in Domestic Work (2000, Graywolf Press) I am four in this photograph, standing on a wide...

marychristinedelea
Feb 8, 20231 min read
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How It Happened by Chelsea Rathburn
How It Happened by Chelsea Rathburn published in New Ohio Review, 2011, republished at Verse Daily I blame that little village in Spain,...

marychristinedelea
Feb 5, 20231 min read
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Can I Be Blamed?: Writing Prompt
We are going to use today's blog poem as the basis for this week's prompt; be sure to state after Chelsea Rathburn in between your title...

marychristinedelea
Feb 5, 20232 min read
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If a Plane Crashed Exactly on the U.S.-Canadian Border by Jeff Mock
If a Plane Crashed Exactly on the U.S.-Canadian Border, in Which Country Would They Bury the Survivors? by Jeff Mock —for Margot...

marychristinedelea
Feb 1, 20231 min read
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