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It’s already 10:30 and I haven’t written a poem (COVID)

Posted on September 4, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 5 Comments

For no good reason I haven’t yet written a poem. Writing teacher once said the most important thing you can give your readers not thing never use thing th...

About Me/words/writing

What Do You Want From This?

Posted on November 6, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 8 Comments

Yesterday I met with a tiny group of writers Three of Us different forms Big Question  What We Wanted from our words.  Not what we hoped to say so much Unless Y...

hope/Poetry/prayers/words/writing

The Hobart Festival of Women Writers and Why I Love It Every Year

Posted on September 9, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 11 Comments

Many women a hundred maybe more together small unusual absolutely gorgeous unexpected village of Hobart New York population 383 six bookstores  even a good bar ...

About Me/Other People's Poems/Poetry/words/writing

I Subscribed to a Free Ten Day Newsletter About Submitting Work

Posted on July 2, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 3 Comments

Today’s says: Dear Writer Who Signed Up For This. Publishing is Hard. And Also:  This Course Will Take Only Five or Ten Minutes a Day.  You Can Take It Wh...

words/writing

Can I Write

Posted on January 14, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

Always that:  blank page right there page  just waiting for words and then, the question of those words: if I were honest what I think I want to be what I hope ...

County Route 20/words/writing

Mundane Details

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

Yesterday at dinner at Angel’s Restaurant on Route 23 in Cairo New York Angel is a Mexican man and woman both eggplant rollatini Mexican style as well as ...

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