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Letter to You from Ashland The creek. All that gentle rushing. Suddenly, I am seventeen back in the ferns by the bank with you kissing, kissing. Before tonight’s show, I’ve got to get Mom to a doctor, then there&…

Letter to You from Ashland eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/l...

29.12.2025 05:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Demeter to Persephone - Debby Bacharach Demeter to Persphone What it means Demeter is Persephone’s mother. You may recall Persephone was lured into the underworld by Hades. Because she ate three pomegranate seeds, she had to stay there thre...

I've got a new post up on my blog that celebrates poems I like and why I like them. deborahbacharach.com/demeter-to-p...

28.08.2025 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tuned by Deborah Bacharach He dusts my nipples as though they are piano keys.

I've got a poem up in one of my favorite journals, Only Poems onlypoems.substack.com/p/tuned-debo...

07.06.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Second Coming No. 119 β€” May 18, 2025 A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House and his regime

I hope you are reading Second Coming, a poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current regime. Today I get to be part of it. michaelbroder.substack.com/p/second-com...

19.05.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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11 WAYS OF WRITING ABOUT A BLACKBIRD... OR ANYTHING, A Writing Tip by Deborah Bacharach β€’ Cleaver Magazine Deborah Bacharach11 Ways of Writing About a Blackbird. . .or Anything Maybe you love description. You can spend an entire poem detailing the smell of a new shoe, the squeak it makes across a kitchen f...

You know when your life as a college writing instructor and your life as a poet cross paths? Rhetorical strategies here we come. www.cleavermagazine.com/11-ways-of-w...

28.03.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you're in Seattle and need to hear poetry in response to the 2024 election, please join me Tuesday, February 4, 2024, at 7pm in Sinegal 110 at Seattle University.

02.02.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I warmly welcome you to a reading protesting the new administration. I have two poems in the new anthology, It's Winter in America (again. www.lulu.com/.../paperbac....
The authors will be reading from it today 11:00-1:00 PST.https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2064225002

19.01.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This Season But there is blood dripping from my father’s calf, from his molted hand. There is blood dripping and falling. His head bobs. There is no food, no music. Only my sister patting Dad’s arm…

Eunoia was kind enough to publish four of my poems. I'm celebrating my first Blue Sky post by sharing them with you. eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2025/01/16/t...

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