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A Reflection: Manufacturing Poetry

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Stephen Earley Jordan II

I knew I couldn’t do it. But I tried. I tried my damnedest too. April was considered to be National Poetry Writing Month with the goal of writing one poem per day. I couldn’t do this. During this past month … Continue reading →

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Poetry and That Dark Place

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Stephen Earley Jordan II

My old license plate read: POET. Driving around was always a pleasure–everyone would speak with me at traffic lights and say they were supposedly a poet, too; or, could I recite a poem to them (as if I always had … Continue reading →

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