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A View from the Potholes

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A View from the Potholes · 2d ago

The Big Poetry Giveaway 2012 — The Results

I’m later than I intended, but I’m sure you understand. But here at last are the results of my contribution to Kelli Russell Agodon‘s Big Poetry Giveaway. I chose the winners using the Random Number Generator. Last year I posted pictures of each result, but I don’t have time ...
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A View from the Potholes · 2W ago

Be back soon…

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A View from the Potholes · 3W ago

Last day as a vessel

Tomorrow morning we will go in dawn’s early light to bring this new child into the world. Thus will bring to a close one period of turbulence, and thus begin another. I’m keyed up and not doing a very good job of resting on this last day of my last pregnancy. I haven’t written much...
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A View from the Potholes · 1M ago

This Weekend: the Mass Poetry Festival!

Yes, indeed, at T – 10 days, you can find me this weekend in Salem for the Mass Poetry Festival. I’m reading on Saturday with other THE MOM EGG contributors, and then again on Sunday with contributors from Salamander. Plus I’ll be staffing the Tupelo Press table with my pal, Rose, ...
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A View from the Potholes · 1M ago

“In these empty gray hours…”

…I felt the first shreds of separation from my mother. The difference between us was manifest. I was alive; she was dead. At the same time, all boundaries between us seemed to disappear. The presence of death opened a kind of wormhole in which my experience was indistinguishable from hers, and...
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A View from the Potholes · 1M ago

The Big Poetry Giveaway 2012!

Tomorrow is April 1, the first day of National Poetry Month, which means it’s once again time for the Big Poetry Giveaway, a blog event created and organized by Kelli Russell Agodon where poets and poetry lovers giveaway two books of poems on their blog. Please visit her blog to get the full l...
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A View from the Potholes · 2M ago

When feeling no longer evades

Despite everything I knew and felt, two of my dearest friends died gasping for air. Another couldn’t stop her pain with morphine, so she disconnected her feeding tube. Still another has the same kind of cancer, and after a heartening remission it’s back with a vengeance. Two other friend...
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A View from the Potholes · 2M ago

My kind of town

This is where I’ll be, from Wednesday to early Sunday. I’m leaving my husband and the kids to fend for themselves for five days, and plan on thoroughly enjoying myself. If you’re coming to AWP, too, please be sure to visit me at the Book Fair — Tupelo’s booths are 115/1...
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A View from the Potholes · 3M ago

Winter Ghosts

I’ve been negligent. As I become more obviously pregnant, folks are so obviously and loquaciously delighted, and yes, this new baby, this unexpected girl, is a much-needed bright star in a dark year. How lovely to talk about impending birth instead of death! But it’s exhausting being so ...
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A View from the Potholes · 3M ago

Ellen LaFleche & Jennifer Militello

Reblogged from The Collected Poets Series: Thursday, February 2, 2012, at 7:00 pm, poets Ellen LaFleche and Jennifer Militello will continue the fifth season of the Collected Poets Series. Mocha Maya’s Coffee House, 47 Bridge St, Shelburne Falls, MA. ($2-5 suggested donation) Ellen LaFleche Ellen La...
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