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Are you wishing to try a form poem but don't know where to start? Are sonnets too stuffy, villanelles too rhyme-y, and sestinas just too...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 13
- 1 min
Haiku by Natsume Sōseki
Haiku by Natsume Sōseki Over the wintry Forest, winds howl in rage With no leaves to blow.
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 10
- 1 min
The Letters of Robert Oppenheimer: Postscript by Hildegarde Flanner
The Letters of Robert Oppenheimer: Postscript by Hildegarde Flanner (originally published in a review of the book The Letters of Robert...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 10
- 1 min
Movies and Books and Reviews, Oh My!: Prompt
Today's poem on my blog was written in response to a book review. The book, The Letters of Robert Oppenheimer, contains the...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 6
- 2 min
The Pivotal Kingdom by Alice Fulton
The Pivotal Kingdom by Alice Fulton (published in her 1994 book, Powers of Congress, David R. Godine, Publisher) A head capsized the wild...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 3
- 1 min
A Voice Speaking Out by Faye Turner-Johnson
A Voice Speaking Out by Faye Turner-Johnson (published in Sky Island Journal, Issue 7, Winter 2009) I have a voice that roams wild...
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marychristinedelea
- Mar 3
- 1 min
What Does Your Voice Do?: Prompt
In today's blog poem, "A Voice Speaking Out," by Faye Turner-Johnson, the speaker begins by telling us, "I have a voice that roams while"...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 28
- 1 min
Chimera by Vievee Francis
Chimera by Vievee Francis (published in her 2016 book from TriQuarterly Books, Forest Primeval) She's not "maternal," she's dangerous....
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 25
- 2 min
Before We Photographed Every Little Thing
we only took pictures of special events. Film was expensive and getting photos developed was even more costly. And we got charged for...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 25
- 1 min
Advice to the Photographers of Atrocities by Judith McCombs
Advice to the Photographers of Atrocities by Judith McCombs (published in The Anthology of Women Poets, 1973, edited by Pamela Victorine,...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 21
- 1 min
Poem for My Love by June Jordan
Poem for My Love by June Jordan (published in the 2005 collection, Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan) How do we...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 18
- 1 min
Above and Below: Creative Prompt
Maybe it's because I posted a poem about submarine warfare. Or maybe because I always long for the ocean. It could be because I just...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 18
- 1 min
Life on a Killer Submarine by Jimmy Carter
Life on a Killer Submarine by President Jimmy Carter (published in North Dakota Quarterly, 60:1, 1992) I had a warm, sequestered feeling...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 14
- 1 min
Ode to the Maggot by Yusef Komunyakaa
Ode to the Maggot By Yusef Komunyakaa (Published in his 2021 book, Every Day Mojo Songs of Earth; Farrah, Straus and Giroux) Brother of...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 11
- 1 min
Comfort Sounds: Prompt
"The Saturday Afternoon Blues" is one of my favorite (maybe even my favorite) Wanda Coleman poems, in large part because of the sounds in...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 11
- 1 min
The Saturday Afternoon Blues by Wanda Coleman
The Saturday Afternoon Blues by Wanda Coleman (published in her book, Imagoes, 1983, Black Sparrow Press) Can kill you can fade your life...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 7
- 1 min
The Lion by Conrad Aiken
The Lion by Conrad Aiken (published in his book Cats and Bats and Things with Wings, 1965, Atheneum, drawings by Milton Glaser) The lion...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 4
- 2 min
Theme for English B by Langston Hughes
Theme for English B by Langston Hughes The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you— Then, it...
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marychristinedelea
- Feb 4
- 1 min
A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You: Prompt
If you'd like to hear the song that goes along with today's prompt title (The Monkees' "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You"), click here....
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marychristinedelea
- Jan 31
- 1 min
Art Thief by Neal Bowers
Art Thief by Neal Bowers (published in his 1997 book, Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiaris, W.W. Norton) All art defines itself...
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