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Fried Eggs
(from the SLCC prompt: write a poem about a smell that floods your memory every time you smell it.) Fried eggs and spam as the sun crests...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 11, 2019
- 1 min
The Deal
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem of origin.) I have a memory of a pit in the deep desert sand and my father down in it. I have a...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 10, 2019
- 1 min
An Expatriate Truth
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that starts from a regional phrase, particularly one to describe a weather phenomenon.) It...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 9, 2019
- 1 min
Found in the pocket of a jacket I have not worn in a year and a half...
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: asks you to engage in another kind of cross-cultural exercise, as it is inspired by the work of Sei Shonagon,...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 8, 2019
- 1 min
Spring Is Tardy
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: Today, I’d like to challenge you to think about the argot of a particular job or profession, and see how you...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 7, 2019
- 1 min
The Gift
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem of gifts and joy. What would you give yourself, if you could have anything? What would you give...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 7, 2019
- 1 min
Imagine, if you will...
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that emphasizes the power of “if,” of the woulds and coulds and shoulds of the world.) Imagine,...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 5, 2019
- 2 min
The Pattern Reveals Itself
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: today we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that incorporates at least one of the following: (1) the...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 4, 2019
- 1 min
My Red Flannel Shirt
(from the SLCC prompt: write a poem about the fabric of your life (literally or figuratively).) He mentions my red flannel shirt first...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 3, 2019
- 1 min
The White One
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write something that involves a story or action that unfolds over an appreciable length of time. Perhaps, as...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 2, 2019
- 1 min
Wait, What Am I Teaching Tomorrow?
(from the NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that similarly resists closure by ending on a question, inviting the reader to continue the...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 2, 2019
- 1 min
Going Home
(from the SLCC prompt: write a poem about the process of traveling from one place to another.) I returned to an old town I’d once called...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 1, 2019
- 1 min
Beggar’s Choice
(from the SLCC Prompt: write a poem about your breakfast.) With ten minutes before class, I opened up the lunchbox you packed for me. I...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 1, 2019
- 1 min
Staying Healthy
(from the NaPoWriMo Prompt: write poems that provide the reader with instructions on how to do something.) We’re getting healthy in my...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 1, 2019
- 1 min
NaPoWriMo 2019!
The National Poetry Writing Month is upon us! All hail the crazy! So, the goal of writing 30 poems in 30 days is a little crazy, but not...
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andrew jeter
- Apr 1, 2019
- 1 min
The Soothsayer
The sandhill cranes silver white fighter bombers in electro-trilling V-formations are returning and in town the ice cream shop windows...
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andrew jeter
- Mar 1, 2019
- 1 min
The Inevitability of Forgetting
It’s on my grocery list but I’ll probably find a way to forget it or I’ll forget the list itself and pull an old tissue from my pocket...
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andrew jeter
- Feb 1, 2019
- 1 min
After the Dervish
It occured to me, one recent frozen morning, that when I wake with a song I have not heard in years stuck in my head— trilling off my...
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andrew jeter
- Jan 1, 2019
- 1 min
2019 Micro-hobby: A Poem a Month
My micro-hobby for the year is to put out a new poem, in whatever shape, once a month. I'm doing this for a variety of reason that are...
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