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I’ve been teaching Bull Durham off and on for the past 17 years. Usually, as most of us do, I use it as a way of getting my students to...
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andrew jeter
- May 1, 2019
- 2 min
Mayday!
So, I've never been a trophy guy, one of those people who always wants to win and thinks that if you don't win you have somehow lost or...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 30, 2019
- 1 min
Spring’s Liminal May
(from the napowrimo prompt: And last but not least, now for our final (but still optional) prompt for this year! Taking a leaf from our...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 29, 2019
- 1 min
A Fine Place
(from the napowrimo prompt: write a poem that meditates, from a position of tranquility, on an emotion you have felt powerfully.) Let’s...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 28, 2019
- 1 min
To Write
(from the napowrimo prompt: try your hand at a meta-poem of your own.) When he sits to write about the morning air, the poet voice says...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 27, 2019
- 2 min
Mirror, Mirror
(from the napowrimo prompt: “remix” a Shakespearean sonnet. Here’s all of Shakespeare’s sonnets. You can pick a line you like and use it...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 26, 2019
- 1 min
the clarifying statement
(from the napowrimo prompt: write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a word, or phrase. You can even repeat an image, perhaps...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 25, 2019
- 1 min
Sunday's Flock?
(from the napowrimo prompt: write a poem that: Is specific to a season Uses imagery that relates to all five senses (sight, sound, taste,...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 24, 2019
- 1 min
Dominion & Teacher's Plea
(from the SLCC prompt: write a tricube.) Dominion I walk the dirt road by my tree line Bluejay sights high up from black locust Fox...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 23, 2019
- 1 min
Harbinger
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem about an animal.) Hey, you! Fat cardinal! Is it really happening? Are you that stoplight red...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 22, 2019
- 1 min
Just a Simple Man
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that engages with another art form – it might be about a friend of yours who paints or sculpts,...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 21, 2019
- 1 min
The Lesson of The Groke
(from the SLCC prompt: write a poem about a favorite picture book you read when you were younger.) In the long shadow of Midas and...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 20, 2019
- 1 min
Saturday
(from NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that “talks.”) Good morning! How did you sleep? Well. I’m going to fill the bird feeders this...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 19, 2019
- 1 min
All That is Left
(from the SLCC prompt: write a poem about forgetting something important.) The neighborhoods I grew up in are gone and the towns they...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 18, 2019
- 1 min
The Dearly Departed
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write an elegy of your own, one in which the abstraction of sadness is communicated not through abstract...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 17, 2019
- 1 min
The End
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that similarly presents a scene from an unusual point of view. Perhaps you could write a poem...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 16, 2019
- 1 min
For Both of Us
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that uses the form of a list to defamiliarize the mundane.) 1. Listen to you get up with the...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 15, 2019
- 1 min
The Prayer
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write your own dramatic monologue.) <Again, I just went with it. Not going to lie, I'm looking forward to...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 14, 2019
- 1 min
Learning
Walking across campus flashing eyes toward each other as fall leaves fell and campus bundled up for a long winter of learning to love and...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 13, 2019
- 1 min
The Arrival
(from the SLCC prompt: write a poem about the weather outside right now.) First spring sunlight shines everywhere like a Kodak flash—...
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