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16 January 2017 Sestina

My creative writing students have been working on a sestina which is a fairly difficult form of poetry to write. The premise of it is, “Sestina is a type of a poem that contains six stanzas, each stanza having six lines, while … Continue reading

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Sestina 10 November 2015

October is harvesting corn, fourteen hours in a John Deere tractor. Bumping along the rows, followed by a bulky brown cart. Drinking coffee on the way to the field, plotting the demise of the circle of stalks.   Silver combine … Continue reading

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