Tag: poetry
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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Poets I’m So Excited to Read
You think you’ve read a lot of poetry for your degree and from whenever you’ve picked up a random collection…. and then you start reading established poets talk about poetry and you realize that the scratch you thought you’d made has in fact left no visible mark at all. Some of these poets I’ve known […]
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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Ways to Start Reading Poetry
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. I’ve recently been devoting more (read most) of my time to reading and writing poetry. While I’ve been reading for years, I consider myself a novice in the poetry world. There’s. Just. So. Much. Out. There. I know a lot of readers don’t really know […]
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What I’ve Been Reading This Week
I subscribe to lots of things–probably too many–and as such whenever I go on vacation (or don’t feel like reading things), I develop a huge backlog of reading. While I was cleaning this week, I’d take I-can’t-stand-it-one-more-minute breaks that I told myself were productive because I was clearing out the back log of feminist newsletters, […]
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Baking for Bookworms: Apple Cake from Sylvia Plath’s The Collected Poems
I was a little surprised to find anything I could cook from in Plath’s poems. She’s not exactly a poet you associate with down home cooking. But luckily there was one food that immediately jumped out, and that was apple cake. The mention of apple cake is from her 1959 poem “Point Shirley”, which is […]
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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books I Wouldn’t Mind Finding Under My Tree
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by the Broke and the Bookish. I think my mom was heartbroken when I asked her if Santa was real in the second grade. She loved the magic of it. She told me that while Santa and fairies might not be real, the magic of […]