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This poem describes the way writing is handled these days, and recommends a gentler treatment.
For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
This poem describes the way writing is handled these days, and recommends a gentler treatment.
A poem describing how we pay our debts to the generation that precedes us and to those who come after.
A poem in reaction to the failure of various banks this week, and the fear of more excitement to come.
This essay discusses different ways authors are pressured into changing their words.
This blogpost talks about the many aspects of literary citizenship, or ways to support writers near you.
A parody on the song by Gilbert & Sullivan " Modern Major General," discussing aspects of literary citizenship.
This poem is about not wanting to be bothered to take care of the things we love.
This extra-long sonnet "tracks" the various ways in which AI, or artificial intelligence, now invades our online lives.
This poem is about stifled ambition and points out that no matter how hard we try to be modest, we always fail.
An homage to the St John's river in Florida and our pitiful attempts to control it.
A poem for all those we miss,and those we have trouble being with during the holidays.
This poem describes a meeting between beasts to decide whether certain human beings should be allowed in their neighborhood.
A poem about spending an evening washing all the ills of the world off of you, and discovering what's left.
A poem invoking the fairy tale character of Rumpelstiltskin to describe the modern Christmas season and analyze what, if anything, has been lost.
This Election Day 2022 poem attempts to determine ownership of a very valuable commodity: a person's vote.
This poem mixes the images of a mysteriously opening door and a found baby shoe to produce a Halloween romance.
A would-be sea shanty set in seafaring times, about a timeless pursuit--that of a swindler--and the swindler's inevitable come-uppance.
This poem sets forth the dismay of a poet who writes in rhyme, in an age when few appreciate it.