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March Newsletter

The Big Snow by Lisa Rizzo

The scarf wrapped around my mouth and nose grows moist with my breath, the breath of exertion. Walking through snow is difficult work. Spinning flakes keep me from placing my feet precisely. Afraid I will fall into a gopher hole, I move slowly, picking my way across the lawns behind houses, trying to reach my own.

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Check out her latest post: You’re in a Reading Slump (Are an avid royal watcher or need some motivation)

And in case you missed it, you can read my guest post at Brevity’s Non Fiction Blog

69,728 Words and Counting by Lisa Rizzo

How does a poet morph into a memoirist? It happens when poetry can no longer restrain words that spill over the sides of a container composed of lines and stanzas, instead filling page after page. It happens when the need to lay down a narrative becomes so compelling that a poet must begin to write the story of her need.

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