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		<title>The Necessity of Absolute Rubbish</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The three weeks I studied directly under the poet and teacher Paul Matthews had a tremendous impact on the way that I think about writing and the teaching of writing. More so than any other writing course I’ve taken at any age, at any institution, including MFA writing courses at the University of Minnesota. Paul’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bounty and the Wreck</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHEN MY SON Max was very, very small—with his luminous and still disproportionately large brown eyes peering out from a fringe of dark lashes, his small round face yet unformed and dough-like—he was mesmerized by water and fire. His first words included boat and candle. By the age of four, he had developed a fierce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Fierce Original Voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like the word fierce. Why? Because it means so many things: you can love fiercely, believe fiercely, live fiercely, and write fiercely. It’s not an angry word. It’s a courageous word. Watch a toddler at play, or a child swallowed up in the ethereal underwater world of deep concentration, and you will see fierceness. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Land of Lakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This very special guest post is from my daughter, Sophie, twenty-two, a recent college graduate, and a hopeful MFA applicant in creative writing (currently awaiting responses from her programs of choice). You may have read about Sophie recently in my post Hands Above, Feet Below. Sophie has been writing all her life. This essay was part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Curve of Our Bodies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeannine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is about bodies. Mine and yours. About flesh and rawness and dirtiness, about throbbing and sensing and sexiness. And brokenness. And heart-stopping sweetness. It’s about our bodies’ betrayals … and their divinities and their astonishing service. For me, nothing captures all of this more potently than Dorianne Laux’s poem “The Shipfitter’s Wife.” I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strands of Moonlight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeannine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I have been waking in the night, something I never used to do. It’s a strange feeling, this coming to alert clarity in the watery dark of my bedroom. I discover things in the night that would otherwise remain cloaked. I notice strands of moonlight seeping through the layer of snow on the skylights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Synergy Mini Retreat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeannine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come join us for an afternoon of writing, yoga, and meditation, and get a taste of what you can expect on the Summer Solstice Retreat this June. At Tula Yoga &#38; Wellness Center in St. Paul Saturday, February 23, 1:30 – 4 Light your creative fire and liberate your &#8220;fierce, original&#8221; voice and your deepest truths. You’ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fertile Ground</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember my first flower garden, a thick batch of blooms grown from seeds sown in one ambitious spurt in the spring of my second pregnancy … and then left to their own devices all through the summer. I was twenty-three, married for two whole years already, and had never in my whole life had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear and the Search for Bird Island</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeannine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sleeping birds are vulnerable. This is why the lucky ones flock by the tens of thousands to roost for the night on the low, gnarled branches of the mangrove trees that flourish in the back bay waters of Estero Island, Florida, where I once spent a week with my husband Jon and our kids. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Run</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeannine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m off to Mexico again soon, interviewing kids who, years ago, received free cleft lip and palate surgeries from Smile Network International. I&#8217;m helping Smile with a book, and I&#8217;m sure it will be extraordinary to meet these individuals whose lives were changed dramatically by one simple act of kindness by strangers. Meanwhile, Mexico brings [...]]]></description>
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