Tag: poetry
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writing practice

I’m reading Writing Down the Bones again. It, among other things, is making me feel brave. In Bones, Natalie Goldberg reminds us how important it is to give ourselves permission to write the “worst junk in the world.” In another chapter, entitled Composting, she says: “It takes a while for our experience to sift through our consciousness. For instance, it…
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how you changed me

written in the fall of 2014, a poem I wrote in college that’s never seen the outside of my poetry class