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Poetry/prayers/words/writing

Rain

Posted on August 1, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

  i am not a nature poet although a teacher told me once Louis B. Schaefer no such thing as a people poet  what I’d still answer if Louis B. Schaefer...

family/Getting Older/Poetry

What My Poems Are About

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

Poems, the way words sit on a page lines short not the same as words in a sentence mine are people poems every single one of them neighbors I knew and didn̵...

Poetry/writing

You Need a Big Platform, and an Enemy

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

On occasion I talk to experts because now to sell a book you need a platform unfortunate word people more than your good friend Edite who likes most not all of ...

Poetry/words/writing

When I Don’t Write a Poem (Day 22 NAMOPO

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

On the days when I don’t write a poem, even one, I wish I’d haiku’d.

Poetry/words/writing

On a Roll Deli (9W) Day 10 NAMOPO

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

Some days I look through my notebooks for poems and there aren’t any.  Yes there are words. There are always words.  But not poems. A good title:  All Tha...

Poetry

If We Were Meeting

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

If I Was Asked to say something the way people do in introductions when they sit in a circle never a square to tell you some piece of who I am to say what I am ...

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