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Diary Poems

X. P. Callahan

Verbal snapshots of my daily life or whatever else may be on my mind. Mostly syllabic, occasionally ekphrastic (which is not the same as illustrative).

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5.15.2026

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J. Patrick Lewis, “1938,” in Black Cat Bone (Creative Editions, 2006)

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Today’s featured poet, the lovely , brings us a community-building exercise in the form of a mega-cento stitched together mostly from work by poets writing here on Substack. Given the cento’s length, the rep...

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always been a crank

 & now look

I’m an old crank too

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LISA JENSEN—forest therapy guide, poet, nature-lover, and life coach—is the author of the novel All Is Well (Wild Ground, 2025). She writes on Substack.

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  • X. P. Callahan

    Poet. Book artist. Translator (French and Spanish poetry and criticism). Publisher, Monday Editions. Former editor at Random House, University of Washington Press, Stanford University Press. Work in RATTLE, CALYX, elsewhere. Lives in New Mexico.

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