Tag: poems
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Take a Poet to Lunch: A Brief (and Slightly Hungry) History of Poetry
Today, January 6, is National Take a Poet to Lunch Day. Long before poetry was something you encountered on a greeting card or scrolled past on your phone, it was how humans remembered who they were. Poetry began as breath and rhythm—spoken aloud around fires, carried across generations before writing even existed. The earliest poets…
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Happy Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts
A Completely Appropriate Celebration for Fiction Writers Today, December 12, is the Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts, a holiday that sounds suspiciously made up but is, in fact, rigorously observed by anyone who writes fiction or poetry and has ever stared at a sentence thinking, If I leave this in, people will have questions. Writing does…
A Heep of Words: Books by Alexandra Heep, Helena Parx, Lexa Drane 