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Poetry Month: New moon, new books, events, awards and more!

by Olivia Loftis April 08, 2024

🌕 Intro Are you participating in Escapril? Tag us @karenkelsaydavies in your poem-a-day posts if so, we love to share our authors’ inspiration! Pl...

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Form Fundamentals

by Olivia Loftis February 14, 2024

Introduction An editing project I worked on recently got me thinking about form again. Structure is a huge draw to poetry as an art form, s...

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Dancing in December

by Olivia Loftis November 30, 2023

Advent Dark times. December. Earth’s axis on the slant and the minutes fall from the day a few at a time. So we outsleep the dark, sleepwalk...

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