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marychristinedelea
Apr 14, 20242 min read
YA: Prompt
What are your favorite YA books from when you were young? Nancy Drew? Darius the Great Is Not Okay? The Poet X? Anne of Green Gables?...
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marychristinedelea
Apr 10, 20241 min read
Seeing the Eclipse in Maine by Robert Bly
Seeing the Eclipse in Maine by Robert Bly (published in 1997, and here) It started about noon. On top of Mount Batte, We were all...
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marychristinedelea
Apr 7, 20241 min read
Path of Totality by Niina Pollari
Path of Totality by Niina Pollari (published in her 2022 book, Path of Totality, by Soft Skull Press) Something set you into motion. A...
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marychristinedelea
Apr 7, 20243 min read
Path of Totality: Prompt
First, please read Niina Pollari's stunning poem that is posted on my blog today. Then go buy her book. Then come back here and do this...
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marychristinedelea
Apr 3, 20241 min read
A Blessing by James Wright
A Blessing by James Wright (published in Above the River: The Complete Poems) Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, Twilight...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 31, 20241 min read
Ballad by Sonia Sanchez
Ballad by Sonia Sanchez (published in her 2007 book, Homegirls & Handgrenades, White Pine Press) (after the spanish) forgive me if i...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 31, 20241 min read
Good Morning, Starshine--The Earth Says Hello: Prompt
There are so many upcoming celestial events! A total solar eclipse on April 8. Saturn and Mars will appear very close together in the...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 27, 20241 min read
Girl Scouts Visit the FBI, circa 1975 by Jane Satterfield
Girl Scouts Visit the FBI, circa 1975 by Jane Satterfield (published in The Common, Issue 3, 2012) Fox’s series the X-Files starred David...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 24, 20241 min read
Can You Really Get By on Three Chords and the Truth? by Ace Boggess
Can You Really Get By on Three Chords and the Truth? by Ace Boggess (published in Jenny, Issue 015, Fall 2018) I like to think of the...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 24, 20241 min read
Can You Really Title Something with a Question?
Of course you can! Just a smattering: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (science fiction novel) Will You Still Love...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 20, 20241 min read
Reading Late Anabasis by Ishion Hutchinson
Reading Late Anabasis by Ishion Hutchinson published in Connotation Press There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. —Thomas...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 17, 20241 min read
Living Room by Marie Ponsot
Living Room by Marie Ponsot The window’s old & paint-stuck in its frame. If we force it open the glass may break. Broken windows cut, and...
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marychristinedelea
Mar 17, 20242 min read
Try a Tritina! Poetry Prompt
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, 20241 min read
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, 20241 min read
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, 20241 min read
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, 20242 min read
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, 20241 min read
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, 20241 min read
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, 20241 min read
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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