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The Daily, Prompted Poet Writes!

I received a great literary Christmas gift among many this year. This one was an offer to include in my daily writing practice an idea suggested by someone else, a launching pass (appropriate for a rocket kid). So today, having a minor stomach bug and needing to rest, I decided to try one and challenge a friend to join me. This is the prompt for December 26: You can see everything in the universe in…

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Bloghopping – Sunday meandering

Diane Lockward’s marvelous Blogalicious has an interesting exploration of Diane’s poem about a bumblebee, and how Adele Kenny blogged about it and it found its way into an Italian translation. Diane even has a movie of the poem. I love it when poems transmogrify into other things — videos, illustrations to an illustration, and increasingly little animated movies. Speaking of Adele Kenny, her blog has an intriguing poetry prompt today about towns and home. And…

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