Tag: essays
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recent publications
Quick post to share some recent publications both poetry and essay, online and in print! * Happy to share that my essay, “Becoming the Weather: Reflections on Poetry as Cultural, Political, and Spiritual Act,” has been recently published in Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making ~ An Anthology of Essays on Transformative Poetics (The Operating System, […]
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* a bit of memory lane with ted kooser
Ten years have passed since I read Ted Kooser’s essay “A Poet’s Job Description” (in The Poetry Home Repair Manual) and yet I am compelled by much of what he says. He is casual, generous and warm throughout, all while dishing out truth bombs like “Poetry is a lot more important than poets.” In the […]
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* update & holiday greetings
This week on the Influence: an update! I have been busy the past two months applying to PhD programs. The past two weeks especially were a crunch. Preparing writing samples, writing soul-baring personal statements that also sound professional and career-oriented, the GREs – all of that plus the daily back and forth in my head […]
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