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		<title>A New Beginning</title>
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		<title>The Three River&#8217;s Anthology eBook</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A writer without an audience is like an egg without a yolk ~fitz If you&#8217;d like to download my book of collected works, simply click the download button and you have a free book of my ramblings, songs, poems, essays, and stories. Enjoy! (I hope) &#160; &#160; &#160; [easy_media_download url=&#8221;https://www.dropbox.com/s/vliiv0w29pjp4hs/Three%20Rivers%20Anthology%20epub.epub?dl=0 &#8220;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I have had a go0d read so far reading your haiku. I have a couple of thoughts&#8230; I never quite know how to teach how to use specific imagery.  When I say &#8220;specific&#8221; maybe I &#8220;real.&#8221; I&#8211;and every reader&#8211;wants to &#8220;see&#8221; what you are seeing. avoid anything generic that might mean something totally different depending [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been teaching, writing, playing and performing for over thirty-five years, while during these last ten years I have been given the time and space and support (and funds) to create a classroom and pedagogy that through stops and starts and a deliberate evolution of ideas and practices has come to be known simply as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I always had in my mind a song about a woman named Ginny who lives (or lived) on an island off the coast of Maine. I want her to somehow represent someone who is willing to wait for something to return to her. What that something is I am not really sure. I was hoping [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I wrote this poem, Thanksgiving, as a tribute to three older teachers from my school: Walter Birge, Read Albright, and Jim Carter&#8211;all men of tradition, celebration and commitment to community. &#160;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Farmer, The Weaver &#038; the Space Traveler</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2020 02:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[     Words matter. Words carefully crafted and artfully expressed  matter infinitely more. There is something compelling in a turn of phrase well-timed, arresting image juxtaposed on arresting images; broad ideas distilled into clear, lucid singular thought. For the writer, it is empowering to know that his or her words have the capacity to engage [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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