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Poetic Archives

by Jacqueline Johnson on May 30, 2008

Congratulations, you made it to Friday! And on Fridays, we share with you a website we frequent or something we’ve found recently while perusing the World Wide Web.
Do you love poetry, but haven’t found a decent website where you could simply absorb the art without loads of conspicuous advertisements? End your Google search for […]

I found an author’s blog

by Jacqueline Johnson on May 16, 2008

Author, Illustrator, and Guerilla artist, Keri Smith blogs too! She doesn’t overwhelm her blog with tons of information. Instead, she provides small and innovative ways to inspire her blog readers with simple, creative tips. I didn’t know what guerilla art was until I read her site: “Guerilla art is a method of […]

The Academic Rut

by Lindsey Anderson on May 14, 2008

I finished reading “Toilers of the Sea” by Victor Hugo this past weekend. I started reading it the day after Christmas.
Sadly, I no longer consider myself an avid reader, having left such luxuries in the past along with home cooked meals from my mom and study hall periods in high school. And so instead of […]

In Honor of Spring

by Lindsey Anderson on April 21, 2008

I thought about putting a bunch of excerpts from springy poems here with links to this and that, but that seems so messy.

So I think I will leave you with my favorite Walt Whitman poem instead.

The First Dandelion
Simple and fresh and fair from winter’s close emerging,
As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever […]

Do, Don’t Be.

by Jacqueline Johnson on April 18, 2008

We don’t become known for being; we become known for doing.

I have something to say but like…

by Jacqueline Johnson on April 10, 2008

How we speak spills over into how we think, how we write, and more importantly, how people hear us.
Don’t Lose the Listener:
If we insert “like” between everything, are we truly making our point? As the listener, I cannot hear what someone is actually saying, because honestly, I’m trying to wade through all of […]

I’m in Love with You, Words

by Jacqueline Johnson on April 4, 2008

Wind Yourself
around my tubular core
like a vine
around a house’s pillar.
Sleep in next to me
under the weight
of the feathered comforter.
I’m in love with You, Words.
Fill me up.
Spend all of Your time with me.
Be the reason for my coffee habit.
Words,
You are my
front,
back,
left,
and right.
You chase Yourself through my mind
like a passenger train,
letting each person off
in antiquated
stations where
mothers dote
on […]

On Getting Ideas

by Lindsey Anderson on March 20, 2008

“How can you go on talking so quietly, head down-wards?” Alice asked, as she dragged him out by the feet, and laid him in a heap on the bank.
The Knight looked surprised at the question. “What does it matter where my body happens to be?” he said. “My mind goes on working […]

When Literature Hugs Back

by Jacqueline Johnson on March 12, 2008

I keep scanning my bookshelf for a choice book. I’m not sure for what I’m looking, but I do know that I can’t just read anything at this particular moment. I want to read, but not just anything. A book can’t just happen to me. I want to meet a character at […]

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