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Supporting Literacy
Last Thursday I had the opportunity to attend Fox Hills Elementary’s Literacy Night as a local poet. There was a nice variety of writers represented. The poet, the short story and article writer, the...
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Holiday Poetry Prompt
Here’s a holiday poetry prompt. My response to this is below. Yes, it really is possible to construct a poem from this nonsense. Ten Characters: 1. Old Saint Nick 2. Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer 3....
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A Few Poems from November
A few weeks ago, I finished up writing the thirty poems I had planned to write in November. As usual when otherwise out of ideas, I resorted to rhyme. Not Calm, but a Clamor Conductor lifts his baton...
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I am a Poet
*This is a repost from my personal blog: marywjensen.blogspot.com I’d like to share with you some quotes that really echo how I feel about poetry. What is poetry? “Poetry is the rhythmical creation...
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I actually submitted some poems for publication and they were accepted
.. a couple of them, anyway. L Like many writers, I’d rather be writing, so I’m often lazy about submitting. Recently, however, I had two poems published. One I submitted and had accepted last fall,...
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A couple of poems about jokes, plus the jokes
Here are poem, but before you read it, here are the three jokes I mention: Mathematician, Physicist, and Engineer: In the high school gym, all the girls in the class were lined up against one wall,...
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The Story of Mathematics
The Story of Mathematics It was the last day of class before Christmas vacation, and our high-school math class was restless and without anything much our teacher needed to cover. “I can prove the...
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My Letter to the World: A Poem and a Prompt
Whether just starting as a poet, or well-experienced, you can learn by imitation. Choose a poem by another poet, classic or modern, and write a poem in the same style. There’s a few ways you could...
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Celebrating National Library Week
This week is National Library Week. This year I can say that I not only frequent the library, I work in one. I worked in a library right after high school, and always wanted to get back to one. Goal...
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A Night at the Opera
For some reason, yesterday I was thinking about recognizing a piece of music, and I realized that there are a goodly number of opera arias that I would have no trouble identifying, including many from...
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