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Eliza Griswold, Wideawake Field

#one rib made the world once #Eliza Griswold #poetry #poetry quotes

What's a book written by a woman that changed your life or that you consider a classic? Any genre, any language.

#The eight by katherine neville #Earth's Children by Jean M Auel #Btw i just looked up her age and I'm not revealing my age but she's the same age as a recently deceased relative of mine #I thought she was idk in her 50s #My bad #I am a poetry blog so #Anything written by #Gloria Fuertes #Mary Oliver #And of course #La escala de Mohs by Gata Cattana

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This is by a patient of mine with early late stage dementia, who was a poet for most of her life. Her new poems are dictated to me during writing workshops I run at my hospice job. She hadn't written since her diagnosis. This is one of seventeen poems I've written with her so far.

posted with permission from herself and her family.

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She died early this morning.

I’ve been doing poetry since I could write but I do think she was my only teacher.

Working with her was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. I mean it when I say you all are so lucky to get even this glimpse at the majesty of her work.

In her words from another poem (not posted):

I am not the only creature watching

All of this,

Drinking it in.

I have a companion,

The cat who sleeps in the backyard

Is watching, too,

And there is so much to be.

louisegluckpdf

i think every publisher should have to institute a ban on books that fail what i’m calling the “little life” and “what else?” tests

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for reference.

#the little life one i don't really agree i do wanna hear about poet's little life #many poems i like and think are good are about little life #the what else tho #i think about the what else every single day #and this is my first time reading about the anecdote #so #theres that #louise gluck my beloved

menecrates

happy sometimes you just want something so hard you have to lie about it so you can hold it in your mouth for a minute monday

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yeag

#and they certainly never die #ada limón #poetry #poetry quotes

leatherjacketmixtapes

every year now this feels like seeing an email from a beloved old friend ❤️

mercuriopoetry

This year I'm finally following along to Dracula Daily! In case anybody wants to join hehe

#dracula daily #not poetry

firstfullmoon

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali

#yesterday i held a hamas vigil for my hamas heart by which i mean i screamed into the night #and because my rage is hamas the police came to enforce the noise ordinance #mejdulene bernard shomali #poetry #the poetic is political #poetry quotes

anka-dm

My illustrations the most based poem about tigers by Nael, age 6

Every time I read it I feel space inside my chest expand in very *emotion* way.

#another day #another reblog of tigers by nael age 6 art #nael age 6 #uf #poetry #poetry quotes

heteroglossia

“I can’t tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other. The reason I can’t tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognized by burning.”

— A.R. Ammons, “A Poem is a Walk”

#A poem is....#my beloved #a r ammons #poetry quotes #poetry

jordanbolton

To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton

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#jordan bolton #visual poetry #poetry comic #to me #poetry #fueling my personal obsession with the beauty in the mundane

sliversoakley4

#im going to go and say #this too is poetry #actually poetry #going personal in the tags as a proper tumblrina i gotta say i haven't written in so long #the other day i was in a tiny room concert in the basement of a bar and the singer was an incredibly pretty and talented woman friend of a #+ friend and i felt /it/#the urge to write one (1) verse #so there's that i havent written it but i was kind of relieved to feel it still there #we're trying i guess #chicken teriyaki

lunchboxpoems

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

#sometimes you have to stand on an incline where things look possible #barbara kingsolver #poetry #poetry quotes

lelif

on survival

-// @aridante // @orivu // @buzzkillgirls // ? // ? // richard siken// @cemeterything // moomin, tove jansson// @disenchanted-killjoy // isn't that enough, shawn mendes// @ prettytheyswag on twitter// @ coletyumuch on twitter// ? // ? // bird by bird, anne lamott// undertale// @strawberrycircuits

#I SUPPOSE SUCCESS AND DEFEAT CAN LOOK THE SAME IN A MIRROR #oh well #poetry actually

adrasteiax

“All children mythologize their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.”

— Diane Setterfield, from The Thirteenth Tale

#diane setterfield