Just For the Record

As the farmers around here are getting their fields ready, this poem seems fitting. Click here for Just For the Record by Joyce Sutphen.

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1950

When I write, I often use words like knickknacks, cluttering up the truth of what I’m trying to say. The first person to point this out to me was my literary journalism professor. When I wrote my first paper for his class, I stuffed it with adjectives and metaphors. My professor gave me a decent […]

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Refractions

Did you know that nearly every state has a poet laureate? Me neither, until today. Click here to read Refractions, by Wisconsin’s poet laureate Kimberly Blaeser.

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