how hot was it today? 108 degrees! and they say a heat wave is coming this weekend.
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bruce smith: devotion: al green.
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ever get the feeling you've unintentionally cribbed a line from another writer? i have two lines that are bugging me because i think i've seen them somewhere before. i hate that feeling! will you help me? read these two lines and tell me if you've seen them before in a poem, novel, craigslist ad, etc.
in his hands a saxophone is nothing like an ampersand
salt lick, slick asphalt: his sweat-rinsed & flickering skin
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bruce smith: devotion: red roof in.
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i really like taylor swift's "you belong to me" single. i can't help it.
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About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
1 comment:
Hi, Eduardo,
I just found your blog and am enjoying it.
I have this feeling all the time with haiku, but only once has it turned out that my poem was quite similar to another's. It's a strange feeling, I admit, and so I certainly understand what you mean.
Best, Peter
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