Monthly Archives: November 2019

Not for the Faint of Heart – Francesca Bell’s Poems of the Merely Bad, the Really Bad and the Dreadful

November 21, 2019 – 3:12 am

Want Small wind tonight and my faced pressed to the flimsy screen. Owls ghost the hilltop trees, fledglings shrilling for food. They eat their own weight in rodents every night, […]

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Dealing with Rejection! – Two Different Responses – Mark Jarman and Francesca Bell

November 17, 2019 – 3:29 pm

from Unholy Sonnets # 34 Although I know God’s immensities can speak In sunlight’s parallels and intersections; although I know the spiritual technique For finding God in all things, when […]

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My Ten-Day Retreat in Italy in 2020 is Filling Up – But Places Still Available

November 13, 2019 – 6:41 pm

Hello! I wanted to send out this reminder of my poetry retreat in Italy next year before the early-bird pricing special of $2,880 US ()double occupancy) expires in two weeks. […]

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Sex or Not – A Poem by Christine Gosnay

November 13, 2019 – 5:55 pm

Sex It is hard to make this choice when the room is so small and bright, and the outside big and deep. But I have not taught myself to lie […]

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