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Art for Kids Camp | Pierce County Parks
I have irises that have been handed down through my family over the generations, being dug up again…
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Chiller Pansies | Poem by Debra Wierenga
I have irises that have been handed down through my family over the generations, being dug up again…
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Loving the Hands | Poem by Julie Suk
Julie Suk is a North Carolinian who, like all good writers, has taught herself to pay attention to…
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Absences | Poem by Mark Vinz
Bill Holm was a Minnesota poet and essayist and a dear friend to many of us who live…
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Numbers | Poem by Jared Harel
My mother kept a handwritten record of every cent she spent from the day she and my father…
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Disarmed | Poem by Wendy Videlock
We’ve published a number of engaging poems about parenthood in this column, and we keep finding more. Here’s…
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Isaac’s Blessing | Poem by Janet Eigner
Here’s a fine poem about family love and care by Janet Eigner, who lives in Santa Fe, New…
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Red Balloon Rising | Poem by Laurel Blossom
E.B. White, one of my favorite writers, used to say, “Simplify, simplify, simplify,” but that doesn’t mean that…
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Prairie Sure | Poem by Carol Light
I’ve lived on the Great Plains all my life, and if I ever left this region for too…
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My mother was like the bees | Poem by Jeanne Wagner
I don’t think we’ve ever published a poem about a drinker. Though there are lots of poems on…
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For My Wife | Poem by Wesley McNair
Psychologists must have a word for it, the phenomenon of shifting the focus of sadness from the source…
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In Childhood | Poem by Sarah A. Chavez
Sarah A. Chavez is a California poet, and here she writes about the yearning of children to find,…