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When It is All Working
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem about a specific place.) <Perhaps dinner is not a place to most, but when you don't really grow...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 1, 2020
- 1 min
The Truth
In the bio they asked me to write, I say, “Lived on four continents with five dogs and one husband,” but I left out the part where my...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 1, 2020
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 2020!
Here we go again! 30 poems in 30 days. I'll be posting the prompts with my attempt at responding the prompt each day in April. (Last year...
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andrew jeter
- Mar 31, 2020
- 1 min
Field Notes, March 31, 2020
(from the Early Bird napowrimo prompt: write a poem about your favorite bird.) If there is a bird that darts, flits and fros, zigs, pops,...
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andrew jeter
- Mar 31, 2020
- 2 min
The Very Very Very Long March
To say that March has been difficult would be, of course, a gross understatement. The world has ended and we are just starting to figure...
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andrew jeter
- Mar 21, 2020
- 1 min
The Writer and His Words
Celebrate World Poetry Day! https://www.un.org/en/observances/world-poetry-day
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andrew jeter
- Feb 3, 2020
- 1 min
Promise
from Ancient Memories Sometimes, in January, the air warms up and the snow melts, warnings of fog are issued and my dog is confused by...
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andrew jeter
- Feb 1, 2020
- 1 min
The Lifting Fog
Last night one too many Irish coffees & dithering about plans for today Sun rise, deep fog in the trees black brown red fingers pointing...
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andrew jeter
- Dec 15, 2019
- 1 min
A Holiday Mug
“Wow, these are a booger! I think they hired a bunch of three-year-olds…” He is untwining Christmas lights from a box. I did not put them...
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andrew jeter
- Dec 1, 2019
- 1 min
Gerontology
When I was younger, if my socked-foot had started to slip while I was peeing into the toilet, I have no doubt that I would have reined in...
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andrew jeter
- Nov 1, 2019
- 1 min
Before I Read the News
cold mornings when my bare feet slip on the bathroom’s tiled floor and robins preen in front of our porch a deer starts in the yard when...
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andrew jeter
- Oct 1, 2019
- 1 min
Damnation
There is a pin oak behind my house leaning west over the porch. In the right season, acorns begin dropping on the bleached,...
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andrew jeter
- Sep 1, 2019
- 1 min
What Do You See When You Paint?
>Thank you, James (www.jamesbrandess.com/@jamesbrandess) for the inspiration and the art. You help us all to define "Saugatuck." I know a...
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andrew jeter
- Aug 1, 2019
- 1 min
I Do Not
(Or: On Being Married to a Struggling Writer During National Poetry Writing Month) I said to him: This prompt is hard. How am I supposed...
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andrew jeter
- Jul 1, 2019
- 1 min
Craft Project #1 – Asteria’s Gift
Materials 1 sheet black paper 1 pin 1 lamp, shade optional 1 small ball or orb, 3-5 inches in diameter Instructions Take a sheet of...
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andrew jeter
- Jun 1, 2019
- 1 min
Summer Writing Website
I had some sophomores tell me recently that they were concerned that the gains they had made as writers this year might be lost if they...
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andrew jeter
- Jun 1, 2019
- 1 min
Announcements
(Here is my official return to focusing on So Many Fishes, a collection I am trying to finish by December. Thanks for reading!) I can...
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andrew jeter
- May 12, 2019
- 1 min
The Hardest Part...
The hardest part of writing is writing. I knew that this blog would challenge me, but why was I so out of my mind that I thought I could...
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andrew jeter
- May 12, 2019
- 1 min
Summer Writing!
Impossibly, a student has asked me why we have "Summer Reading" for students but not "Summer Writing." <Insert thunderbolt here> "Great...
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andrew jeter
- May 3, 2019
- 2 min
Writing Prompts & Silent Sustained Writing
Writing every day helps to promote a healthy relationship with writing things that you don't have to be married to. Writing every day...
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