For Your Enjoyment: "All Hallows" by Louise Glück

Even now this landscape is assembling. The hills darken. The oxen sleep in their blue yoke, the fields having been picked clean, the sheaves bound evenly and piled at the roadside among cinquefoil, as the toothed moon...

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Fall Writing Exercise Series #61: Six Word Shootout with Jethro 08

The Notebooking Daily Fall Writing Series is a daily writing exercises for both prose writers and poets to keep your creative mind stretched and ready to go—fresh for your other writing endeavors. The writing prompts...

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Fall Writing Exercise Series #60 Title Mania Plus Siouxsie 09

The Notebooking Daily Fall Writing Series is a daily writing exercises for both prose writers and poets to keep your creative mind stretched and ready to go—fresh for your other writing endeavors. The writing prompts...

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The Publishing Life: Over 50 Literary Journals or Contests With Deadlines on October 31 or November 1 of 2019

The Publishing Life: Over 50 Literary Journal or Contests With Deadlines on October 31 or November 1 of 2019 End of October Deadlines 2019! So we've had all fall to knock out dozens of pieces with the Fall Writing Exercise...

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Fall Writing Exercise Series #59: Beginning & Ending with Bubble Gum 09

The Notebooking Daily Fall Writing Series is a daily writing exercises for both prose writers and poets to keep your creative mind stretched and ready to go—fresh for your other writing endeavors. The writing prompts...

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For Your Enjoyment: "Merely, In an Unforeseen Moment" by Gaylord Brewer in the newest issue of Kestrel (41, Summer 2019)

            In three days I begin my             journey home from the north.             No, I do not invoke the    ...

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Fall Writing Exercise Series #58: 3x5x10+ Wordbank 09

The Notebooking Daily Fall Writing Series is a daily writing exercises for both prose writers and poets to keep your creative mind stretched and ready to go—fresh for your other writing endeavors. The writing prompts...

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Fall Writing Exercise Series #57: Ekphrastic Journey

The Notebooking Daily Fall Writing Series is a daily writing exercises for both prose writers and poets to keep your creative mind stretched and ready to go—fresh for your other writing endeavors. The writing prompts...

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Fall Writing Exercise Series #56: Three Things and a Random Title 03

The Notebooking Daily Fall Writing Series is a daily writing exercises for both prose writers and poets to keep your creative mind stretched and ready to go—fresh for your other writing endeavors. The writing prompts...

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Fall Writing Exercise Series #55: Six Word Shootout with Lady Day 07

The Notebooking Daily Fall Writing Series is a daily writing exercises for both prose writers and poets to keep your creative mind stretched and ready to go—fresh for your other writing endeavors. The writing prompts...

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Fall Writing Exercise Series #54 Title Mania Plus Defects 08

The Notebooking Daily Fall Writing Series is a daily writing exercises for both prose writers and poets to keep your creative mind stretched and ready to go—fresh for your other writing endeavors. The writing prompts...

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Complete a Piece: A Triolet So Tasty You Could Eat it

"A triolet is a poem of eight lines, typically of eight syllables each, rhyming ABaAabAB and so structured that the first line recurs as the fourth and seventh and the second as the eighth" *editor's note: In composing...

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