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Poetry | Thursday, August 11,2011

mozartpoem #6

By Jacqueline Jackson
these weekly offerings seem often to include music environment excrementremember the guy and the reservoiralso things that strike me as funny or bizarre here’s an item no not from thetabloids bu
Poetry | Thursday, August 4,2011

Anthology publishes poetry of area teens

By Anita Stienstra
Several local students recently had poems and/or artwork accepted for publication in the annual teen poetry anthology, Navigating the Maze. The book was published by central Illinois’ nonprofit
Poetry | Thursday, August 4,2011

griefpoem #11

By Jacqueline Jackson
living with grief it isgood to do quiethomely things washingdishes by hand taping upa tear in a child’s favoritepicture book dipping oarsslowly while you gaze atthe water’s parallel eddies
Poetry | Thursday, July 28,2011

personalpoem #6

By Jacqueline Jackson
I wonder if I will gointo old age still thinkingabout things such as theopposite of “inept” is “apt”
Poetry | Thursday, July 21,2011

lakepoem # 8

By Jacqueline Jackson
garrett, two, got a fish hookthrough his finger when he grabbedhis brother’s line had to go to thee.r. I was seven when a kid whippedhis line back and snagged me rightbetween the nostrils I blub
Poetry | Wednesday, July 13,2011

wordspoem #4

By Jacqueline Jackson
wordspoem #4 I’d like to write something usingchalcedony such a strange strong wordit’s a chert says daughter #3 who knowseverything worth knowing a chert likejasper semi precious stones t
Poetry | Thursday, July 7,2011

scampoem #1

By Jacqueline Jackson
NO HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUPblares the label of my hunt’s ketchupother brands are catching on though notthe hawaiian punch at an enos park bashthat was its first ingredient I read labels the high
Poetry | Thursday, June 30,2011

Ypool poem # 9

By Jacqueline Jackson
no I don’t swim laps I just swimand when it’s crowded try tododge the thrashers and splashersand the ones who hit the end POWwith their projectile somersaults
Poetry | Thursday, June 23,2011

peepoem # 5

By Jacqueline Jackson
peepoem # 5I heard it on NPR marketplace it wasn’tapril 1 someone caught a guy on camerapeeing in a reservoir think it was portlandthe scene went viral to use a mod term Idon’t know the de
Poetry | Thursday, June 16,2011

newspaper newsquirk poem #2

By Jacqueline Jackson
newspaper newsquirk poem #2you could write a poem a weekjust from the newsquirks columnone I’ve saved states that in ataiwan province petty offenders havethe option of playing mah-jong with olds