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Saturday, October 2, 2010

exquisite poetry

julie is a fellow earlhamite, 
and although our time at earlham overlapped,
i did not know her.
on the writer's almanac a while back,
and i recently ordered her book.
i was stunned by her work.
it took my breath away.
she and her college sweetie were married for 23 years
before she lost him to multiple myeloma.
her writing is full of grace and beauty.
here's a sample.

sometimes poetry is my spirit salve.

4 comments:

  1. oh reed, thank you for sharing this
    it truly is exquisite

    xo

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  2. I've been reading some James Galvin poetry...he is coming here to visit later this year.

    Here's an example:
    http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16572

    Today was reading morning...we all read for pleasure for the whole morning...awesome!

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  3. Lovely, thank you for introducing her poetry to me! I didn't think i had the time or mental calmness to read poetry (shh am borrowing a few minutes from work to visit your blog) but enjoyed the first taste so much, i had to read all four poems linked on The Writer's Almanac.

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