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	<title>Cindy La Ferle's Home Office &#187; poetry</title>
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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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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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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;Now I Become Myself&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been dissolved and shaken / Worn other people&#8217;s faces&#8221; &#8212; May Sarton My early introduction to May Sarton&#8216;s work was through her diary, Journal of a Solitude. I was new to personal writing at the time, and I admired how Sarton gracefully shared her private and public worlds &#8212; her beloved garden; domestic [...]]]></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>
		<link>http://www.laferle.com/2008/11/liberty-poetry-for-all/</link>
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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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