HeyJaredEmily Raible
“Napoleon or somebody said that you could always turn a tragedy into a comedy by sittin’ down.” Lord Peter Wimsey
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Poetry, What is it Good For? (opens the original)
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About five years ago I took a class that changed my life. It was called Survey of English Poetry and it was taught by Thomas Banks. I knew absolutely nothing about poetry, but I did know that the people I looked up to found delight and joy in poetry, and I wanted in on that. So I took the class and a whole new world was opened up to me. New ideas, words, emotions, expressions, and stories poured out of the class and into my imagination. Thomas presented this new world to us in his singular way;
Charlie the Tramp (opens the original)
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Reading Slumps (opens the original)
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One minute everything is fine. I have 5 to 7 books going, the stories are talking to each other, I’m making connections left and right and my mind is bursting with new ideas. I like to keep a book or two going on the Kindle, a book or two on Audible, a nice long book I only dip into here and there, maybe a poetry anthology, and something that I only read in physical book form, pen in hand. It’s a fabulous groove to be in!Eventually those books start to wrap up one by one and all of a sudden I ha
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