Poetry

Vacation Poetry

Change at the Beach By Jamie Notter   As I eclipse the dune The reality hits me: The beach has changed. Inlet shifted. Tide lines moved. Landscape altered.   Wise locals nod knowingly To the great storm That means nothing to me. I only know my beach has changed   Yet I stop And marvel [...]

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Why is Tax Day in the Middle of Poetry Month?

It's tax day. A day that requires us to multiply a large volume of numbers by things like 0.035 and 0.25, as long as the resulting number is less than whatever we had put on line 27 (if not, put a zero and skip to line 42). So why is this left-brained, analytical day smack [...]

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National Poetry Month

According to the Academy of American Poets, April is national poetry month. This year, for the first time in my life really, I've been writing poetry, and I am finding it quite satisfying. So if you were ever to take a month and experiment with writing that is not necessarily rational, linear, and explicit, now [...]

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