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Progress and rumination
Hurray! I’ve made a little bit of progress today, adding a new page to this site, detailing some of the writing I’ve done for work. My big project today is relaxation and thinking about the future, which is also not relaxing but something I can’t help but do as I look around me and feel…
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Historical research
I’m invigorated by having gone to the Decatur Book Festival and hearing some excellent poets. Luckily the weather was pleasant, if a little warm, so I was unable to talk myself out of going, which I do too often, because of the long drive there. If it had been raining, I likely would’ve chickened out.…
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Q&A with myself
I’m working on an essay for a change, thanks to an essay prompt by Saeed Jones. It’s in the form of a Q&A with myself, and it’s been a lot more fun, therapeutic and revelatory than I expected.
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Unexpected poetry reading
EDITOR’S NOTE: This event was upended by Hurricane Helene. It’s been rescheduled for Oct. 24. Same bat time, same bat place! I didn’t quite get what I was agreeing to at first when I agreed. Or I knew and forgot. But I will be taking part in a Poetry is Pretentious, Melodically Challenged and Mayor’s…
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Blatant disrespect
A story from the Associated Press yesterday took me down a rabbit hole. It was about a project to reclaim a graveyard of the formerly enslaved that had been covered up, desecrated and destroyed. For a while now, I’ve known there’s a small graveyard behind Floor and Decor in that odd, old strip mall in…
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When it ends
Trying something new. Reading one of my poems from my collection, NOT PICTURED.
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Kimberly L. Wright 