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		<title>Possibilities of Breath: Charles Olson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Camp</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Charles Olson, an American modernist poet who prefigured the Beat poets and the L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poets, was very interested in the quality of breath in poetry. There&#8217;s been a lot written about this, much of it scholarly or dense, but at &#8230; Continue reading &#8594;<br/>
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		<title>When My Brother Was an Aztec</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Camp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Copper Canyon Press]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I spent part of today immersed in a new book from Copper Canyon Press, When My Brother Was an Aztec. Author Natalie Diaz has a strong voice, a voice filled with despair and rage and sadness about life on a &#8230; Continue reading &#8594;<br/>
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		<title>Jane Hilberry: In Love with a Dark, Hairy Mammal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 15:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Camp</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Awww&#8230; what a surprising and cheerful poem… a clear reason for letting your imagination run away with you&#8230; Jane Hilberry Crazy Jane Meets a Bear “I&#8217;ve been looking for you everywhere,” she says when she finally meets him. She has &#8230; Continue reading &#8594;<br/>
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		<title>Living in a Monstrous World: Follow-Up Prompt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 15:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Camp</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maurice Sendak]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This week in class, I asked my students to write super-short news poems. Read the parameters for the prompt, then read on. Of course, students are anxious and skeptical about elements of the world situation — yet, what matters is &#8230; Continue reading &#8594;<br/>
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		<title>Magic Hours, Corn and Judgment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 15:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Camp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exquisite language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literary quotes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Harrison]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished Tom Bissell&#8217;s essay collection, Magic Hours (Believer Books, 2012). I already knew Bissell&#8217;s writing from a New Yorker article on Jennifer Hale, the woman who voices video games. I was entranced by the way he led me through a &#8230; Continue reading &#8594;<br/>
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		<title>Knowing When to Stop: Dottie Grossman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 15:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Camp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poetry analysis]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[One of Los Angeles&#8217; finest brevity-based poets, Dottie Grossman, died two days ago. The thing about Dottie was that she could compress her thoughts into something small, and still be incisive — astoundingly. That&#8217;s a skill&#8230; knowing when to stop, &#8230; Continue reading &#8594;<br/>
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		<title>How Dustin Hoffman Connects to Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 15:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Camp</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Do you write because you already know what you have to say and you just need to get it down? … or do you write to figure it out? In a New York Times Magazine article from March 4, 2012, &#8230; Continue reading &#8594;<br/>
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		<title>“Audio Saucepan: The Everything on the Counter Episode”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 15:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Camp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[jazz / other music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry on the radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McSweeney's Poetry Series]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When in doubt about what to do with an hour at the most magical time of day, listen&#8230;. “Audio Saucepan: The Everything on the Counter Episode” includes three story-like poems “For Patrick Rosal Who Wore a Dress &#38; Said,” by &#8230; Continue reading &#8594;<br/>
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		<title>Writing to Heal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 15:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Camp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing prompt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In yesterday&#8217;s writing prompt, I suggested describing an illness you think others wouldn&#8217;t understand. One reader, Amelia Raymond, used the prompt to give words to her feelings about her brother&#8217;s struggle with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and how it affects &#8230; Continue reading &#8594;<br/>
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		<title>Prompt 27: Describing Illness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 15:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Camp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[exquisite language]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bellevue Literary Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Harding]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[How does a writer describe something large, something impossibly hard to understand — an epileptic seizure, for example? Writer Paul Harding, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his first book, Tinkers (Bellevue Literary Press, 2009), says it this way: &#8220;The &#8230; Continue reading &#8594;<br/>
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