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day 15 – Wild Apples – A journal of nature, art, and inquiry
Wild Apples I think I love this little journal. I will be subscribing soon and maybe someday not so soon, submitting. I’ve been amazed at how many journals, books, and artists are focusing on the interdisciplinary study of nature and writing. I hope this sort of exploration and collaboration continues. Today I scored a few…
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Day 14 – for the sake of something beautiful
I think the reason this time of year is so difficult in the midwest is that it seems so hard to find beauty. It is still too cold most days to linger outside and the flowers that bloom in rare warm weather wilt before they can go to seed. I am missing color: the hard…
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Day 13 – stopping time.
I am only a few days from spring break. I love my job, but I love writing. Choosing between the two is difficult and most days I wish I could stop time, or at least slow it down for a bit. Apparently, it isn’t as difficult as one might think: http://grasshopperx.com/mind-games/how-to-stop-time/ I feel lately as…
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Day 12 – a poem for my sister?
Today is my older sister’s birthday. In her honor, I wanted to post a sisterly poem, something not too sweet or precious, something that would be worth reading any other day, but this turned out to be a more difficult task than I expected. I found this, from Wordsworth: To My Sister, but little else. …
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Day 11 – More free books?
Thank you, Jan Bottiglieri, for letting me know how to get a free copy of Brute Neighbors, a collection of prose, poetry, and photography focused on urban nature. My free copies came today and they were kind enough to send me three, plus three copies of A Writers’ Congress: Chicago Poets on Barak Obama’s Inauguration. These books…
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Day 10 – warning: bad gardening metaphor
As expected, a weekend in the garden did me a world of good. I replanted about twenty strawberry plants that had spread from runners all over the garden, tilled the vegetable bed, harvested compost (which I swear smells better than anything else in the world), and started to sow the yard with clover seed. I…
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Day 9 – free book!
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/blueprints I stumbled upon this today. I am very excited to read it.
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Day 8 – poetry overload
Maybe I’m just grouchy because I’m dealing with identity theft or because spring break is coming way too late this year, or maybe it was the six or so hours that Duotrope was down this morning, but I think I’m experiencing a poetry meltdown. I worked with several classes today that were writing partner poems…
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Day 7 -The wisdom of Jane Hirshfield
“Tree”, by Jane Hirshfield Some day I want to live a life in which I won’t have to choose between the tree and the home. I want space; I want to let it grow fallow and then wild as it is reseeded by the wind and the wildlife. I want to bring other writers to…
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Day 6 – why some days I love my job
This afternoon I was asked to cover a class for thirty minutes for a teacher who was taking most of her students on a field trip. There were a handful that couldn’t go and this made them the perfect group of guinea pigs for an experimental lesson. I borrowed from a teacher I had in…
Elizabeth Joy Levinson 