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I'd like to be able to select more than one mood. Tired/determined is not the same as tired/weepy or tired/accomplished. I guess today I would fall into the first category. I've had a busy week at AAA and I have to teach class in 20 minutes, somehow conveying the idea that research papers are unintimidating, important and not a waste of time to a ( Read more... )

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The new issue of Bayou came out this week. It includes my poem "Prophet," a narrative poem about my dad playing a practical joke on a neighbor. I sent one of my contributor's copies to my dad, and he called yesterday to talk about it. I think he liked that I wrote a poem about a story he told me, something funny. The poems I read about him at my ( Read more... )

Last week my friend Jae gave me a much needed writing prompt. His complete list of poetic criteria is  here, in case you want to write your own poem from this excellent prompt. The gist of it is to write a poem based on Magritte's painting "Son of Man." Here's my first draft. If you write a poem from Jae's prompt, please post it or a link to it here ( Read more... )