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Poet in the City

Quilting Acolytes

by Evelyn N. AlfredFebruary 6, 2010

Over at Read.Write.Poem I heard about a this mini-challenge to fall in love with a poet. The challenge calls for creating cento poems as the means to fall in love. A cento – as I have recently learned – is a patchwork poem of lines taken from other poets. Normally the cento draws from many [...]

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My Writing Process for Triolets

by Evelyn N. AlfredJanuary 3, 2010

1. The first part of the process is to pick the topic I want to write about.
Let’s say my topic is reading.
2. Second, I pick two words that relate to the topic. The two words I pick must be words that are easily rhymed. I would never select a word like chartruse because I can’t [...]

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Cheating with Punctuation

by Evelyn N. AlfredNovember 25, 2009

I’m having a love affair (with Parenthesis)
It’s pissing off Ellipses…
but I don’t care
because sometimes
I have to add just a little bit more
instead of leaving things out.
I’ll drop both of them — Parenthesis and Ellipses — when Dashes
returns my text message.
Evelyn

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A Novel in a Month?

by Evelyn N. AlfredNovember 8, 2009

After some gentle prodding, I decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a full length novel (50,000 words) in thirty days without any editing. That translates into 1666 words a day.
*Warning* Math calculations are drawing near.
1666 words a day, is nowhere close to what I would average in writing [...]

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Writing Confession

by Evelyn N. AlfredOctober 25, 2009

I have a confession to make. A writing confession. My writing has been suffering since I went back to teaching full-time. Maybe you guessed that already, but that isn’t my real confession. I am stalling because I don’t want to admit that I have broken one of my writing goals (and I only have two). [...]

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A Letter to My Protagonist

by Evelyn N. AlfredOctober 10, 2009

Dear Dawn,
I know it’s been awhile since we’ve spent some time together. I have been thinking about you. I was hoping you would reach out to me, but I have the feeling if I keep waiting on you, I’ll be waiting for winter. Didn’t Sade say that on a song? I know I didn’t come [...]

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October 09 Po.e.treat: A poem is still a poem

by Evelyn N. AlfredOctober 7, 2009

If you throw a poem
in the sky
it may float
but it won’t fly
and when it falls
your feelings
may change
but the words will always
remain the same

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Meeting Jacqueline Woodson

by Evelyn N. AlfredOctober 5, 2009

The National Book Festival was about two weeks ago, but I have yet to blog about it.
*trifling*
I had a pre-game plan before heading up to the festival. There were six authors I planned to visit at the festival: Sharon Creech, Junot Diaz, Nikki Grimes, Walter Mosley, Patricia Smith, and Jacqueline Woodson. If I’m being totally [...]

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Writing.Is.Hard

by Evelyn N. AlfredSeptember 20, 2009

Dear Ernest Hemingway,
What’s up Ernie? Is it cool that I call you Ernie? Maybe we should work up to that considering we don’t know each other. For what it’s worth, I have made a serious attempt of writing 250 words daily, like you use to do…however I read somewhere (else) that the actual number was [...]

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Birthing Poetry

by Evelyn N. AlfredSeptember 7, 2009

I’ll never have any children of my own.
At first that was only an idea in my head, carried like a backpack since childhood. I didn’t share that with random people because girls are supposed to want to have kids. Why else would there be a variety of babydolls available to little girls at the toy [...]

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