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December 3, 2021
Poetry Break: 5 Poems by Dr. Archan Mehta
By: Dr. Archan Mehta Poem #1: Ex-Friend We used to be good friends, But now we no longer meet And move around in different circles. You smoke Cuban cigars And drink the finest liquor: I am still the gentle scholar, Who wanted to be a writer. Our friendship is no longer What it used […]
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November 29, 2021
What Can I Add? It’s Already Been Written!
Sure it's been written about before, but not from your perspective or your unique style and tone. Keep writing, improving, and publishing.
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7 Ways Reading Fiction Improves Your Life
By: Jessica Fender Read Fiction and Enhance Your Life “You should never read just for “enjoyment.” Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends’ insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick “hard books.” Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god’s sake, don’t let […]
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November 28, 2021
Sunday Spotlight: Anwer Ghani
By: Marilyn L. Davis Communication Through Poetry “Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”― T.S. Eliot My introduction to Anwer Ghani was in 2017 when his first poems appeared on Two Drops of Ink. Scott Biddulph was Editor-in-Chief at that time and had also published a book of poetry. We’d sit in the […]
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November 27, 2021
Poetry Break: Two Poems from Anwer Ghani
By: Anwer Ghani ____ Near the River You know very well the beauty of life near the river. As the morning begins its journey, the squirrel leaps cautiously through the green songs, and the flavors take on their azure veil. There, near the river, the flowers, the women, and the old farmers […]
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November 26, 2021
Gift Giving for Writers: 2021
By: Marilyn L. Davis What Gift to Give? “Gift giving is a true art. 1. You need to understand the person to whom you intend to give the gift. 2. You need to know what they truly want. 3. You must be able to give it to them. Anything less is a symptom […]
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November 23, 2021
Author Interview: Ryan Artes on the Poetry of Identity
Ryan Artes book of poetry, After Midnight, reflects his diversity. Queer, adopted, brown - where does he fit in the world?
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November 22, 2021
Poetry Break: Margaret Moore
By: Margaret Moore Endless Beginnings All these poems, no conclusions yet new poems emerge by the book-length. They mock me, these poem lines of mine. They all sit in one document, in what has become a digital poetry journal, I suppose. Dates in shorthand separate them as they perch between poems unfinished and finished, […]
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November 20, 2021
HOW TO WRITE IN BED
By: Noelle Sterne “The irritating question they ask us — us being writers — is: “Where do you get your ideas?” And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra!”― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions Ideas: Where and Why and Why Now? At nine minutes […]
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November 19, 2021
Poetry Break: 3 Poems by Dr. Archan Mehta
Dr. Archan Mehta has such interesting ideas about life, love, and something in-between. Enjoy these three poems.
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