No Poem Is the Only Poem. No Story Is the Only Story. It's Just One Planet. But There Are Many Stories.
I write poems the way some people keep a notebook by the phone: not to capture everything, but to be ready when something important calls. Most of my poems begin with a moment that refuses to stay quiet: a small human exchange, a remembered voice, an image that lingers longer than it should. I don’t chase ideas so much as I wait for them to return, shaped by time and attention.
Julinda knew it wasn’t her place to take her sister’s seventeen-year-old daughter to get birth control, but she also knew Amalia wasn’t going to do it. Would she be furious when she found out? Absolutely. But Julinda was willing to face her sister’s anger if the trip to the clinic succeeded in preventing yet another teenage pregnancy in the family.
Talent is an island.
Education is not.
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Photography: DH
I don't get why some submitters want to talk about themselves so much in their cover letters...
a new year's resolution
There are no rules. I had a teacher once who told the class that if we took a picture of the state capital building in Providence he’d fail us. Oddly, I never have, and always look at that building like it’s a complete failure of a structure.