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If I spoke
with the air of blossoms
but had not your love
lifting me towards
the heavens,
I would be as an
uprooted tree
in winter’s wail,
catching my branches,
snapping my soul
on empty winds
which strike
with malicious hands.
You will not turn. A pillar of coarse salt
You will become, a faceless white pilaster.
Leaving your misdemeanour could be a fault
But looking back at it is brings to disaster.
You may use mirrors: a mirror is a screen.
Medusa taught you that when you killed her.
She was up to destroy you: yet unseen
You turned and used a weapon of thin air.
But now again: don’t turn. Your shoulder blades
Will sprout up wings to lift you out of here
Your heels will grow two fins, and out of Hades
You’ll drift, and in a tick you’ll disappear.
The city is aflame. How can we both survive?
At our back a salt stone is thrown into a beehive.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
Woman at the Washington Zoo received the National Book Award for poetry in 1961. Here you can see the tremendous work Jarrell put into editing the poem.
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My hands hover
halfway in the air,
swelling the blood in my limbs.
I have attempted to sort through
signals and sounds scratching
in my head, crowding my conscious.
I have said I want Your will,
want to do Your will,
but on whose terms?
I claim to taste Your calling,
but I am warm in my bed
without a reason to release
myself from the comfort
wrapped over me.
You say to deny ourselves,
and I admit I cannot deny
this pulsing inside me,
steady, picking up speed.
You move in me,
twisting open doors
I’ve bolted in place.
For they are not my chambers
but Yours.
When You speak I want to listen.
Where You point I will follow.
My heart is hooked to the
back of Your caravan.
Here am I.
Send me.
Mike Cahill, a visiting screenwriter, meets with creative writing student David Harrison to review his script. Photo by: Philip Channing
Watching my hands, the palms, and seeing the lines
I remember my mother telling me:
“You’ll have a son and daughter, I see the signs
And a long life, and lovers, this I see”.
I never had a child to call my own
Or I had one – could I have forgot? -
Lost in a dream or nightmare, in the unknown
Dark of my past old life: in a weak spot.
And in my palm she saw my life, and what
She desired for me. But I trampled on
All what she wanted. I made a cleaver cut
With what she was. She had to agree upon.
They say you have to look at both your hand to know
Which one will be your future: your other hand will show.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
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www.nanowrimo.org - writing a 50 000 word novel in 30 days -
In 2008, I left my former life and one of the first things I did was nanowrimo. I wrote with a frenzy and obsession in a way similar to the way I had lived my life until then. It was a novel of ordinary office workers who had super powers in an alternate universe and saved the land of Zetoec from ultimate destruction but a price was paid. That year I wrote more on a blog about writing than I did in the novel. Personally it was a year of truly understanding my obsessions.
In 2009, I wrote "Inside Her Drawers" ... about a woman in her later years that is afraid of letting go of "her treasures" for she believes that it is only those treasures that keep her alive. Naturally, those treasures are lost at a time of significant change and the old woman dies. During nano last year, rather than do a blog, I posted a pic a day on Flickr as inspiration to keep writing and in doing so learned to trust the process. It is through that habit, I reconnected with the world in a way I did not imagine possible, and through that process of trust at a broader level I am where I am today.
Today in 2010, I will start nano for the third time. And for many reasons, today is also a day of new beginnings. As with the other years, I don;t have a specific storyline in mind - it will evolve ... I have a vague concept and I know the process will take care of its own. This year I want to honour the child, and especially the child within ... this year (hopefully) will be a children's story. I do know that there is a camel in this story.
.. and there is no better way than to start a story and a new beginning than with a blank sheet ... happy nanowrimo-ing and happy futures :)
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Christina had the Young Adults take an adventure in creative writing. First they went through some creativity exercises to loosen up the mind, then they wrote a story!
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Fall coming on puts me in the reading mood. I absolutely love, love, love, love this magazine and have been taking it for 6 years now and I have maintained 3 gift subscips. to some special people in my life. They also have a great program where you can donate subcrips. to schools and prisons. Their covers (see my note about Jennifer Esperanza!) are always so provocative and there is a (loose) theme every month. So worth the price---and they DO NOT ADVERTISE so all you get is the incredible writing and photograpy.
Check it out!! www.thesunmagazine.org/
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Author and Knox College graduate Will Boast reads from his own works and signs books, at a meeting of the Caxton Club, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Knox's program in Creative Writing. More info: www.knox.edu/news/knox-celebrates-50th-anniversary-of-cre...
That summer night we went down by the sea
To watch the fireworks, and I was then so small…
Perching on father’s shoulders I would see
The lights exploding. In my arms, my doll.
Walking, I raised my eyes to watch the faces
The lamppost light painted their skins in greens.
I felt so scared I tripped on my paces:
My parents turned into spine-chilling beings.
I could not ask: I was afraid of talking.
The neon lights were blazing their sick colour.
I watched my feet, bare in the sandals, walking,
My dolly’s face, my hands, and they discoloured.
I can’t remember fireworks, the nightmare dulled the show
That night I had for parents two persons I didn’t know.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
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The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English hosts alumni Allegra Hyde (MFA 2015) and H. Lee Barnes (MFA 1992) for a reading from their work.
Allegra Hyde is the author of the 2016 John Simmons Short Fiction Award winning collection “Of this New World.”
H. Lee Barnes is the author of numerous books including “Dummy Up and Deal,” “When We Walked Above the Clouds,” and “Minimal Damage.”
The Indian was the double-tongued fiend
While Technicolor cowboy was our man.
We did not know the enemy, by then,
Trustful we watched the movie as it began.
We lived in black and white, as children do
“The sheriff will shot dead the bad outlaw”.
The hero, fair and strong, for what we knew
Would have the farmer’s daughter, and the squaw.
Then we knew better, but it was too late.
We found new myths and pictures, and new heroes
Revealing to ourselves what desecrated
The story of a nation smashed to zero.
Our fathers taught us legends, allowing us to see
Only what suit the story, and hiding the enemy.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
In praise of Native Americans
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Port town in the far north of Israel; fantastic historical sites from the Crusader and Ottoman times
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