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My latest missives & musings
A form of meaning
April 22, Napowrimo 2026. Today’s test, write a Villanelle. Although originally a highly structured form, the Villanelle, with its roots buried deep in Italian peasant soil song, has been mutated by poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, Randal Mann, Jennifer Horne and Jennifer Hasegawa. I’ve never been very good with rules, especially strict ones. Resisting form…
Puppy Love
April 22, Napowrimo 2026. Jaswinder Bolina’s poem “Mood Ring” imagines the speaker as both himself and an interior being. It’s quite silly . . . and not silly at the same time. A sort of “serious fun.” Today, we’re challenge to write our own poem in which the speaker is in dialogue with themselves. This…
Sue Brickay’s gift
April 21, Napowrimo 2026. Three weeks in and our daily test is to play around with the theme of our or other’s nicknames. I very rarely went by a pseudonym and loathe it when anyone shortens my given name – I was given it for a reason and that reason is good enough for me.…
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