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Tag Archives: poetry

Bloom Creative Writing: “The End of the Season” by David Blumenfeld
Original Poetry / Poetry

Bloom Creative Writing: “The End of the Season” by David Blumenfeld

Posted on April 26, 2022 by joeschuster3 • Leave a comment

“And I’ll greet them, marveling at their reawakening…” Continue reading →

“Thinking of 40 as the Starting Gate”: Q & A with Jan Beatty
Authors / Interviews / memoir

“Thinking of 40 as the Starting Gate”: Q & A with Jan Beatty

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Alice Stephens • Leave a comment

I wanted to write the book that I’d been looking for my entire life and never found. Continue reading →

An Excerpt from Maureen Oehler DuRant’s debut poetry collection, Skirmishes on the Oakie-Irish Border
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An Excerpt from Maureen Oehler DuRant’s debut poetry collection, Skirmishes on the Oakie-Irish Border

Posted on March 1, 2022 by chsummie • Leave a comment

“DuRant’s poems skirmish at the fraught edges of language, winning ground page by page “in a battle to claim turf where tongues can hold their own.” ” Continue reading →

Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Donna Henderson
Original Poetry / Poetry

Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Donna Henderson

Posted on February 22, 2022 by Alice Stephens • 1 Comment

Once, I was your other heartbeat, your deepest
center. You were the world I was and knew.

After—all your life—I thought I was unlike
you: the you I liked, and otherwise.
Continue reading →

Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Muriel Nelson
Original Poetry / Poetry

Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Muriel Nelson

Posted on October 26, 2021 by shobavish • Leave a comment

Spring has shifted the year’s
Uneven balance and the light
Spreads even as dawn adjusts… Continue reading →

Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Mark Goldstein
Original Poetry / Poetry

Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Mark Goldstein

Posted on September 28, 2021 by Bloom • Leave a comment

“Soon, several hundred sated, well-lubricated,
Turkish towel donning friends or strangers
will begin to filter out from the labyrinth
of thin-walled, cramped, private cubicles.” Continue reading →

Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Anthony DeGregorio
Original Poetry / Poetry

Bloom Creative Writing: Poetry by Anthony DeGregorio

Posted on August 31, 2021 by Alice Stephens • Leave a comment

“There are nights when across the bay we can see
Lights pressing the form of a certain small town.” Continue reading →

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