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		<title>A favorite love poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then all the moments of the past began to line up behind that moment.&#8221; &#8212; Billy Collins One of the things I admire most about poet Billy Collins is the way he mines the ordinary for beauty, then renders a work of art. In &#8220;This Much I Do Remember,&#8221; he recalls a tender moment that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Forgetfulness&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[No wonder you rise in the middle of the night to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war.&#8221; &#8212; Billy Collins I&#8217;m often amazed at how a particular poem (or a memoir or a novel) can shimmer with new meaning when you reread it years later. I first read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You, Reader&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever anyone reads his words the writer is there. He lives in his readers.&#8221; &#8212; William S. Burroughs Creative writing teachers often preach: &#8220;Write for yourself&#8221; and &#8220;Write what you know.&#8221; Good advice, yes. Still, most of us hope to build a readership. We write to make a connection with others. Working as a weekly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Advice to Writers&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more you clean, the more brilliant your writing will be.&#8221; &#8212; Billy Collins Last week I shared Jane Hirshfield&#8217;s &#8220;The Poet&#8221; (about a writer at her desk), and in the comment section we all compared notes on where we do our own creative projects. Writers are inherently messy &#8212; in a good way. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty &amp; poetry for all</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.&#8221; &#8212; Carl Sandburg There&#8217;s an article on sidewalk poetry this week in the Christian Science Monitor. Permanently stamped on city sidewalks, poetry is part of a new public arts project in St. Paul, Minn. This thrills me no end, since I&#8217;ve always thought poetry should be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The poetry of cartoons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Weekend Edition features a delightful piece by Billy Collins, a former U.S. poet laureate and my favorite poet of all time. &#8220;Whenever a writer is interviewed or subjected to a Q&#38;A session after a reading, one of the questions that always comes up has to do with with influence,&#8221; he writes. [...]]]></description>
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