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McKenzie Lynn Tozan
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The Coronavirus & A Poem of the Day: Jennifer Jackson Berry

Happy Monday, friends! In an effort to share a little beauty during these difficult times, I’m bringing back my Poem of the Day series. Today: Jennifer Jackson Berry’s “I Lost Our Baby.” Enjoy.

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Poem of the Day: Meg Day

Happy National Poetry Month! Here’s the Poem of the Day, for the first of the month: Meg Day’s “Hymn to a Landlocked God.” Enjoy!

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Poem of the Day: James Wright

Happy Friday! Today’s poem of the day is “A Blessing” by James Wright. Enjoy!

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Poem of the Day: Jennifer Jackson Berry

Late to the game today, but here is Wednesday’s Poem of the Day: “Lost & Found Love Poem with Oranges & Trash” by Jennifer Jackson Berry! Enjoy!

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Poem of the Day: Linda Gregg

For today’s Poem of the Day, here is Linda Gregg’s poem, “Hard Season.” Enjoy!

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Poem of the Day: Mary Oliver

Happy Monday! And Welcome Back to my Poem of the Day Series. To start us off, here is a lovely one by Mary Oliver, “How I Go to the Woods.” Enjoy!

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Poem of the Day: Ada Limón

  Help me turn my mind off. Help me be more than a song. The stress like a crow’s open flame. Help me to not…

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Poem of the Day: Kim Addonizio

  DARKENING, THEN BRIGHTENING   The sky keeps lying to the farmhouse, lining up its heavy clouds above the blue table umbrella, then launching them…

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Poem of the Day: Kim Dower

  HE SAID I WROTE ABOUT DEATH   and I didn’t mean to, this was not my intent. I meant to say how I loved…

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(I’m Back) Poem of the Day: Jack Gilbert

  Hi everyone! I know it’s been a while again. But here I am: quiet little me, doing quiet not-so-little things. I’m in the process…

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Poem of the Day: John Ashbery

  AT NORTH FARM   Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across…

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Poem of the Day: Julie Bruck

                  —after Philip Larkin   TO BRING THE HORSE HOME   Is all I’ve wanted past wanting since I was six and delirious with fever,…

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There may be construction going on down the street There may be construction going on down the street, but a lady could get used to this! 😎
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A big balcony where the kids can play, a place to write, a strong-enough internet connection, and lovely, fall-like weather. 🧡 
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I have less than two weeks until my client's book is published, and then I have some of my own work to do that's been put off for FAR TOO LONG (like... querying agents for my debut novel and/or my YA series and/or two poetry chapbooks... 👀). 
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Every year in September or early October, I feel t Every year in September or early October, I feel the same call: to go back and reread Annie Dillard's THE WRITING LIFE. (I read this book for the first time in my sophomore year of HIGH SCHOOL to give you an idea of how far back this tradition goes.) But it's become an integral part of my fall, almost like a welcoming home, and most certainly a readying for the winter that I'm never really ready for. 
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Reading late tonight, including this incredible po Reading late tonight, including this incredible poem by Cameron Awkward-Rich. Enjoy.
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Good morning, friends! To start my day off on the Good morning, friends! To start my day off on the right foot, I'm having coffee and breakfast with my kiddos, and I wanted to share one of my latest successes: my first article with the Digital Nomad Writing Club.
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I am nowhere near 40, but I love articles that work as a bookend for a decade: what you should read to wrap up a decade, what you should read as you're preparing for the next one, etc.
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I also think there are some high quality titles here! What would you include on a list for someone turning 40? 
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LINK in the comments! Thank you for reading! 
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Hi friends! I haven't posted (again) in a while, t Hi friends! I haven't posted (again) in a while, thanks mostly to the times we're in... But I at least am here with fun news! 
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I've been working on and off on the first novel in my GIRL TO MOON series, and I've also been writing a series of short stories that I plan to publish as a collection early in the new year. 
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I'm planning to release one of these, "The Duplex," in anticipation of the full collection AND the new year, which follows a mother's grieving of her late husband and her child who has gone missing. But after a series of psychological turns and chilling bumps in the night, she begins to wonder if her child is really missing, and if there was really anyone to grieve at all...
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We all may miss trick-or-treating this year (I know I will), but this story is going to be available to read by the light of your creepy Black Flame Candle on Halloween night, with a few days and "ch-ch-ch-ch" and "ah-ah-ah-ah"s to spare. 🖤🎃📚
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More details coming spooky-soon...
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It's finally here! My review of Angela Voras-Hills It's finally here! My review of Angela Voras-Hills' LOUDER BIRDS from Pleiades Press is live at Green Mountains Review. 

If you enjoy stellar, subtle poetry with lyrical and imagistic turns, the dangerous and the creepy, taking chances and the beautiful---then I can't recommend this one highly enough. It's a beautifully-wrought, difficult, and highly memorable collection. It's still on my mind almost daily. 

The LINK to my review is in the first comment! Thank you, GMR, for having me; I can't wait to read more for you soon. 
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Hi friends! I'm so happy to share with you that I' Hi friends! I'm so happy to share with you that I'll be celebrating my 10th anniversary with my wonderful husband tomorrow. 
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10 years, 6 moves, 5 years of school, almost 3 children, countless books read, and SO many memories later, we're happily going strong. 
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All my love to my husband today, our big day tomorrow, our anniversary adventure this weekend with our kiddos, and forever. 
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Happy 10th Anniversary, my love! 
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"The circle grows larger as the onlookers in the s "The circle grows larger as the onlookers in the stands shift out of their seats and the cheerleaders assemble and the girls from tryouts finally take a hint. As they slip Eric onto a gurney and keep him there on the ground to check his vitals, some realize the show is over. Emily appears and brushes my hair out of my face, her bright green eyes blazing with the love and concern I know so well, and she takes my hand and pulls me away."
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"As more of us move out of the crowd and drift out into the galaxy of a field, now mulling with sounds of confusion and distress, there is a visible break in the circle, and I see him:"
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"Sam is kneeling at Eric’s side, touching his knee, and he stares at me with a cold intensity as if he knows something. As if he were blaming me for a secret I’d never known."
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