Wordswimmer
Bruce BlackOn writing and the mystery of the writing process
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Why poetry?
Wandering through a local bookstore the other day, I came across Dorianne Laux’s Finger Exercises for Poets (Norton, 2024) on the poetry shelf, and, intrigued by the title, read a few pages and couldn’t resist buying the book and taking it...
Waiting for your heart to open
You sit waiting
for your heart to open,
to reveal the words
you need to write,
like waiting for a blossom
to push its green shoots up
out of the earth
and unfold its petals.
You close your eyes
and listen to your breath,
your p...
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...
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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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