HeyJaredNarrative Surprise
Readers expect surprise—in fiction, poetry, memoir. Writers strive for the art of surprise.
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A Blur of Consequence (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published Locoweed Growing all winter, certain of itself, it has waited for the horses to believe in their hunger enough to try the early green and silver stems that lie to them about goodness. It makes itself the only green around. We have found it out in time by its early dragonheads of pu
Surprise Delayed (opens the original)
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I posted to Narrative Surprise on March 20. On April 1, my good friend Tina Carlson and I drove to Ada, Oklahoma, for the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival, where—surprise!—the poet Chera Hammons introduced herself and reminded me that back in 2019 I nominated one of her poems for a Pushcart. Side note: after one of my personal essays was chosen for Pushcart XLII, I was invited to submit yearly nominations of my own. When I got back to Albuquerque, I fully intended to write my next blog entr
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