Cynthia Harrison
Novelist
Tag: poetry
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Moon Poems
This whole making the moon explode thing is getting to me. Okay, I know it’s not the whole moon, just a tiny portion on the dark side by the craters. And I know it’s not supposed to affect us, our fields or tides or anything, in any way. It’s just to see if there’s water. Still,…
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not so fast
Don’t think I’ll have the poetry chapbook done by the 10th even though I wanted to have it ready as an anniversary present for AWD readers. I will get it out eventually, and it will be free, but I really want to make it good. Typed up and revised lots of the poems yesterday (about 20 of the 30 I’m considering)…
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steroids & kubla khan
Finally looked this morning through my old poems.Not the really old ones, from my teens and 20s. Those were published long ago in two chapbooks as part of an arts collaboration I did with a friend. We got a grant for printing, were assigned a downtown Rochester storefront window for our installation based on a poem of mine the first year, hers the second. We…
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waiting
They said 12-16 weeks for word on my rom-com submission. Guess they meant it. Meanwhile, I have a ton of work to do to get my classes rolling. And am hoping that the poetry doesn’t dry up on me. Three poems in six days…
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One Way to Write a Poem
Wrote a poem I actually like this morning. Here’s all I had to do. First, I travelled a few hundred miles to another country with two close friends. We have known each other twenty years. Among other things, we watched brilliant actors perform the Chekhov play Three Sisters. Three friends, three sisters. There’s something about the number…