Wordswimmer
Bruce BlackOn writing and the mystery of the writing process
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Between the lines: Nadia Colburn’s "I Say The Sky"
A good friend who knows how much I love reading (and writing) poems mailed me a copy of Nadia Colburn’s collection of poems, I Say The Sky (University Press of Kentucky), which contains the kind of poems that help open a reader’s eyes to th...
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Where do you look
for poems, for stories,
where do you find the words
you need to write,
where are they hiding, waiting...
Waiting for as long as it takes
No matter how many poems you’ve read or
how many pages you’ve turned,
no matter how many rhymes and
line breaks you’ve heard,
no matter how much you want to add your voice
to the poems already in the world,
no matter how long you...
On the power of poetry
Ada Limón, the 24th Poet Laureate of the US, shares her thoughts on writing and the power of poetry in a slim volume, Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry (Scribner).
When she begins writing, Limón notes, she wants to make something tr...
Out of thin air
Waiting for words
to appear on the page
my pen poised
above a blank
sheet of paper
like a heron
patiently watching
the water as smooth
as the surface of glass
for a sign of life--
the slightest ripple--
waiting for the perfect
m...
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Come swim toward a new understanding of the writing process with Bruce Black, who searches for words, poems, and stories on Florida's west coast.
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