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Brave Artists (opens the original)
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I’m teaching this week at one of my favorite places, with wildly creative people. It’s Fall Craft Week at Montreat Conference Center. The mountains of North Carolina are beginning to turn colors. Morning prayers on the porch have been chilly, but the sky is still bright blue. I got to have dinner with my daughter. I am catching up with old and new friends and bidding on beauty in the art auction.Though I’m grateful to be helping writers use their words, I’m also jealous of the artists making sta
Juxtaposition: Jaguars in the Wild (opens the original)
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A recent hike in the Pacific Northwest has me pondering the word “juxtaposition.” The term comes from the blending of a Latin word, “juxta,” meaning “next,” and the French “position.” The dictionary says it means: the act of placing two or more things, ideas, or characters side by side to compare them, contrast them, or create a striking effect. Here’s what happened. We set out on the Wild Goose Trail— a steep, flabbergastingly scenic route to Artist Point in the Mt. Baker area of northwest Wash
Let's go, poet (opens the original)
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Sorry to miss yesterday’s prompt. I came home from a lovely visit to the Pacific Northwest and promptly came down with Influenza A. I’m the first case my doctor has seen this year, which is good so far for everyone else in my county because I have felt awful. I’ve had no energy for anything other than scrolling Instagram, which is also awful. Somehow over the last two days my feed has turned into reels about Birkin handbags and cruise ship employees. I even missed the also awful news about the d
From Somewhere Else (opens the original)
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Let’s jump right into a prompt. This idea comes from one of the regular emails that land in my inbox with daily or weekly poems—The Slowdown, from American Public Media, hosted by Maggie Smith. It’s also a weekday podcast. The poem is called “Somewhere Else” by Adam J. Gellings, and it was originally published at poets.org where you can sign up for their <a href="https://po
Wendell’s Manifesto (opens the original)
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After remembering Dolly last week, it’s sobering to have yet another memorial prompt this week. Losses sometimes come too close together.I won’t try to sum up Wendell Berry in this post. You likely know him as a poet, or an essayist, or a novelist, or a farmer/conservationist/environmentalist. He was all that and more. The New York Times had a good write-up here (with a gift link): Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies a
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