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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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Burned out
Burnout became the theme I was sucked into this past week, but at least it ended on a positive note. Note the burnout was something internal but could be partially due to events only partially related to my day-to-day drudgery. But the feeling festered, and I felt worthless and wounded. I should move slower in…
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Clearing my head
There’s nothing quite like touching grass, as the kids say. Yesterday, my son and I went to Oxbo Park in Roswell, and there’s a bridge from that park to Vickery Creek National Recreation Area. By the time we got there, it was already too late, and we had to turn around. But that brief little…
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Kimberly L. Wright 