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Kendall Dunkelberg
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A Writer's Craft: Multi-Genre Creative Writing
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Barrier Island Suite: Poems (Volume 16) (21st Century Poets)
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Tree Fall with Birdsong
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Landscapes and Architectures: Poems
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2001
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Hercules, Richelieu, and Nostradamus
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Time Capsules
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2009
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How I Finally Wrote a Sestina, and Why
Forgive the clickbait. I will get to the “How I Wrote a Sestina” part of the title soon, I promise, but I actually want to start with the “Why.”
As I wrote over on my Substack recently, I had some big news to share in August, the biggest of which was being awarded a Literary Fellowship in Poetry from the Mississippi Arts Commission. I’ve extremely grateful to them for this honor, and I wrote about
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“The Dream Poem"
One evening I lay down thinking
wouldn’t it be nice for once
to dream that one poetic image
which would liberate me to write.
As I slept, I dreamt of a huge black lake,
so big and so black it can’t be described.
I was unsure if this was a dream
or if I was really just sleeping,
not dreaming at all, so I felt
around on the banks of my sleep
for a smooth, flat stone to skip
across the surface in the hope
that the ripples, when they collided,
might form that image and tell me
this was the dream I had waited for.
But I couldn’t find a stone. The only
things on the shore were the feathers
of a shredded pillow. When I grasped these
one by one and threw them into the lake,
they flew away to form the stars.”
― Landscapes and Architectures: Poems
One evening I lay down thinking
wouldn’t it be nice for once
to dream that one poetic image
which would liberate me to write.
As I slept, I dreamt of a huge black lake,
so big and so black it can’t be described.
I was unsure if this was a dream
or if I was really just sleeping,
not dreaming at all, so I felt
around on the banks of my sleep
for a smooth, flat stone to skip
across the surface in the hope
that the ripples, when they collided,
might form that image and tell me
this was the dream I had waited for.
But I couldn’t find a stone. The only
things on the shore were the feathers
of a shredded pillow. When I grasped these
one by one and threw them into the lake,
they flew away to form the stars.”
― Landscapes and Architectures: Poems
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