Ampersands & Accents

A Kind of Daybook ~ www.jeffnewberry.com

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Library renovations at ABAC are coming right along! (at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3e9Kz1BmmbnW-Aew0_sGfFroJiBT-d_Tt4vGk0/?igshid=p5s7igbzvnlh

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I have been arguing with this poem for weeks now. https://www.instagram.com/p/B3c8OFyBZezph8eEX369zMTiqJp5wAx5ZoUhsM0/?igshid=qxhlyxlbj0lo

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Richard Wilbur, “The Proof” https://www.instagram.com/p/B2se0jvB_aH4ArkKba9Jm6v45hbw2Gm_uWLulQ0/?igshid=ujdll90dvlso

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Sweet Connections: Jeff Newberry

Each week we will be connecting with our contributors showing where they have been, where they are now, and what’s up for the future.

The fine folks over at Sweet reconnected with me in this short interview. I hope that you’ll read, enjoy, and share! 

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The campus library renovations are coming along nicely! (at Tifton, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B034jsjBfoKG6mxtRVqxQedGMqqo1ZPREjIiKU0/?igshid=o29luzi66st5

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Yusef Komunyakaa laying down some wisdom. Pay attention, children. Grown folks are talking. https://www.instagram.com/p/B0llt4sBBP6FBjGujAYPOf6u5Aj5QT7MdYODGM0/?igshid=1gurohq9jrumr

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I’m so happy to have a poem in this new anthology, Local News: Poetry About Small Towns (MWPH Books). “To Come of Age in a Mill Town” is the opening poem in Brackish (Aldrich Press 2013). Written as a response (in some ways) to Richard Hugo’s “To Die in Milltown,” the poem weaves together imagination and lived experience in a kind of tribute and a kind of elegy to #PortStJoe, Florida, where I grew up, a town that has changed so much over the years that it scarcely resembles the fishing village/paper mill town of my youth. Still, if writing poems has taught me anything, it’s this: memory creates its own kind of truth. (at Tift County, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0bEWMxB1Zd0UwIDySfOwd5P7QApqho4jtQEDQ0/?igshid=1cth6byx5k1k2

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I write every day. Often, along with original work, I copy down a poem that I admire or that means a lot to me. Here’s Jack Gilbert’s “Failing and Flying.” . . . . #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #jackgilbert #poetry #journaling #fountainpen #handwriting #diplomatfountainpen #cursive #amwriting https://www.instagram.com/p/B0WbHjuB9dqtXQQdSsUmCH8IpVoipCDZ5ZLL2Q0/?igshid=1j0le2khhq44w

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Court Stevens teaching at the ABAC Young Writers Conference . . “We all are living stories [that] we have the ability to change” —Court Stevens (at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0JXZcaBQ2xMQSop37HiwHjCMUBFkNFwa8LRFY0/?igshid=wdjzjkydystz

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ABAC Professor of English and featured faculty at this Year’s ABAC Young Writers Conference leads a class on the hermit crab essay at the conference (at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0JLYdlh9hY0FmQKyn4Ln-ri2IcyTUYRDHNWVc0/?igshid=1jf7c4r9skhti

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Justin Evans (@rightpoetright) teaching at the ABAC Young Writers Conference (at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0JDY6pBIYqxL2n6c-i7S3XqSc0SM4_GMTVXIY0/?igshid=1e4h55d6aic0k

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We are here! Where are you? (at Midtown Reader) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0HQRlYhiRRPBuaWh1NLk6T6Xnfw3g9nxpikAc0/?igshid=1aynyx5igaoqz

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Here’s a fun survey for #poets and #poetry lovers! • • • • • • • #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #poetry #survey #pleaseshare #thisisfun #writers #writing #amwriting #shouldbewriting https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz_8BD8hi_UvnC9Kp0814sRzFfeBLrL6eVCEZI0/?igshid=4saxxjkq34k

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New pens make me happy #fountainpen #pens #pilot #jetpens #jetpenhaul https://www.instagram.com/p/BzlnvvQhiw1m-Ua8ET_Vg6QqnRwuyxKn9APzaI0/?igshid=1fv55z6bdbu1b

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From this afternoon‘s journaling/writing session: “Ours is in age a performance, not sacrifice.“ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzlm51_B4MgntECjJt5qtVCyTyY7pJwrOvIMuo0/?igshid=zawwvetm75og

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The lighthouse on St. Simon’s Island (at St. Simons Island, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BygxNSwhVkigQI7zmy_PC1LPxe0m7tJ6-pfIX80/?igshid=gdzmugkts4mc

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These essays won’t write themselves #fatguysatwork #iactuallywenttothegymtoday #amwriting #sortof (at Tifton, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByTTEj4hiNyWbhm8EI9BKEtS_i3dZTOdVBx2Gk0/?igshid=tylefkti2keg