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Should I write a story with big words that pays big money? Or, should I write this story that is worth only five cents but makes sense to me?
Naomi Shihab Nye’s gift for connection & a shared world at Missouri Writers Guild Conference, Columbia, Missouri
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“Atlantis–A Lost Sonnet” by Eavan Boland
My friend Stephanie Farrow, a marvelous poet in her own right, sent me this poem today, as one she enjoys. I thought you might enjoy it as well. Atlantis—A Lost Sonnet by Eavan Boland How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder that a whole city—arches, pillars, colonnades, not to mention vehicles and…
“I Remember”–the woman & her husband’s perspective
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Snowbound: Filling the Feeder (a new poem by Janet Grace Riehl)
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