Color Me Poetic
During undergraduate, and a little bit after, I worked at my university’s writing center. While we, the tutors, all shared
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I Have Six Words for You
A scene from the Nickelodeon show Hey Arnold! Mr. Simmons That’s fine, have a seat. You see the poetry I
The Permanence of Pen, Volume III
These are the last, for now, of the journal poems. There are more in the journal (pages and pages of
The Permanence of Pen, Volume II
The poems below are a little longer and a little more…well, I’ll be honest, I used to write poetry as
The Permanence of Pen, Volume I
In high school, I wrote a small amount of poetry in a journal. My process, the idea of revision, is
My Life As An Adult Robot
Lately, I run on automatic. I am shampoo directions: Lather. Rinse. Repeat. I am a parrot. OK, I got it.
Death and Pom-poms…or A Very Serious Poem About Cheerleading
Another poem from my past. Go. Poetry. Go, go, go poetry. Death and Pom-poms by Alexa L., written November 3,
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A Poetic Love
I liked the idea of on-the-spot poems, since they moved me to write similarly to how I write my song
Poem-spiration or How to Make Something Out of Something
I mentioned inspirational lunches in a previous post. This is the result of a particular lunch with Amanda, where she
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Be Kind, Revise…or the Importance of an Imaginary Knife
You rewrite your poem, perhaps because you are forced to; or maybe you feel it just doesn’t sound right. But
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