Laura Purdie Salas

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Double Dactyl: What’s All the Fuss About?

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So, I read about the double dactyl form of poetry on Kelly Fineman’s blog on Poetry Friday and decided to try one this weekend. I had never even heard of it! Yesterday, as my kids were were shopping for inappropriate Halloween costumes (who knew the devil wore such a short skirt?), I plunked myself down in […]

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Attack of the Poems

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  Recently I was working on a revision of poetry collection/cycle. It started out as 23 poems. An editor liked it but wanted more characterization, more depth. She didn’t say anything about more poems, exactly, but somehow as I revised and freewrote, I ended up with a total of 106 poems! Here are some of […]

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Poetry Friday: My Biggest Fear

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After posting Mary Oliver’s Alligator Poem last week, I decided to try my hand at writing a poem about my biggest fear. Alligators are a phobia of mine, but not something I really worry about here in Minnesota!  I knew my greatest fear was bad news about one of my daughters. Horrible news from a […]

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Do You Have a Doppelganger?

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I want the bodies of lots of different people. I wish I had her legs, her stomach, her arms, etc. But last week at the gym one day, I had an odd experience. I was walking behind a woman whose body looked like mine when mine is at its best. She was the same build, […]

Poetry Friday: A Mary Oliver Poem

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I grew up in Florida near a lake and I have many memories involving alligators. Not good memories. They terrify me. And before I was old enough to be terrified, I was in rather close proximity a few times. Never attacked or chased, but close proximity is close enough for me! They still evoke a […]

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