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Honkymagic:  Introduction to "Practicing"

Tuesday 9 March 9:21:00 PST 2010

I first heard this poem when Orlean Anderson read it at a Northern Virginia Writing Project party in the summer of – what was it, 2002? 2003? I remember her reading it to us as we sat on the floor of someone else’s living room, the lot of us, for the summer, if not forever, writers, professionals, teachers, committed to ... [Link]

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Honkymagic:  Marie Howe -- "Practicing"

Tuesday 9 March 9:20:00 PST 2010

I want to write a love poem for the girls I kissed in seventh grade,
a song for what we did on the floor in the basement

of somebody’s parents’ house, a hymn for what we didn’t say but thought:
That feels good or I like that, when we learned how to open each others’ mouths

how to move our tongues to make somebody ... [Link]

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