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Reba Jean Groover Green at peace
Thank you all so much for your thoughts and good wishes. My mom died this morning at 6:30 am, at home, after an evening being surrounded by her children and grandchildren. We’ll miss her forever.
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Time Out of Mind
I’ve lost track of the days — lots of traveling back & forth to my mother’s; Collected Poets ados; work; and, oh yeah, I’m a parent — I’ll write a proper post this week after I’ve caught up on sleep (ha! there’s a promise for you), but until then, gifts to brighten your day (the…
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Polina Barskova & Mike Young (via The Collected Poets Series)
Thursday, March 3, 2011, at 7:00pm, poets Polina Barskova and Mike Young will read as part of the fourth season of the Collected Poets Series. Mocha Maya's Coffee House, 47 Bridge Street, Shelburne Falls, MA. ($2-5 suggested donation) In her homeland of Russia, Polina Barskova is considered a prodigy, one of the most accomplished and daring of the…
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The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves
According to a post at Scientific American, people who have experienced loss or trauma may find healing if they are able to turn their life stories into a narrative that hangs together and makes sense. Recent research suggests that developing a story from the events in one’s life — not necessarily a story with a happy ending,…
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In the spirit with which it was given
Many thanks to Karen for the Memetastic Award (which I keep reading as the Metatastic Award, but nevermind) and the sweet and generous things she said about me and my blog. This is just the sort of thing I’m terrible at — I never met a chain letter I didn’t break, never confronted a set…
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Small Presses & “The Count”
I speculated that independents—more iconoclastic, publishing more work in translation, and perhaps less focused on the bottom line—would turn out to be more equitable than the big commercial houses. Boy, was I wrong. Granted, these presses publish a smaller number of books in total, so a difference in one or two books has a larger…
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AWP?! AWP!
We’re over our flu, and just in time — AWP’s next week! I’ve never been, and what’s more, I haven’t traveled anywhere alone in 6 years! That’s right, Lance will be parenting solo for five whole days! Three sentences, three exclamation marks — that’s how keyed up I am. The most practical use of five…
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Post-Holiday Post
We’re sick. Like, really sick. We’re falling to the puking bug one by one like dominoes. How awfully ironic that after I put off a visit to my mum’s for so long in order to visit her healthy, Vincent vomited in the car minutes away from arrival — too late to turn back now. After…
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Sara London & Maria Williams-Russell (via The Collected Poets Series)
Thursday, January 6, 2011, at 7:00pm, poets Sara London and Maria Williams-Russell will read as part of the fourth season of the Collected Poets Series. Mocha Maya's Coffee House, 47 Bridge Street, Shelburne Falls, MA. ($2-5 suggested donation) Sara London is the author of The Tyranny of Milk (Four Way Books, NY). She teaches creative writing and…
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Birthdays
My blog is officially three, Aidan is officially 2, and the New Year will be here in a day or so. What a year. Thank you for reading, expanding life’s circle, and making my life richer in the process. Happiness, good health, and all the blessings of the New Year to you, my friends!
Marie Gauthier 