Archive Fever

Posted on September 21, 2007. Filed under: Poetry | Tags: , , , , , , , |

I’m sure that everyone experiences symptoms of OCD, or else has at some point in their life. I mean, I don’t know a lot about mental illnesses, but I feel the restless leg, the compulsion to check every unread email, and distinct and desperate desires to have things done, checked off, put away, etc. (and [...]

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Writing your identity

Posted on February 23, 2006. Filed under: Mormon Life, Poetry | Tags: , , , , , , , |

I have only in recent years thought about writing poetry that identifies me as a Mormon. I always stayed away from writing about anything religious. I don’t really know why, except maybe it was too hard to express without sounding trite, especially with my limited writing experience. Or maybe because I hadn’t come to terms [...]

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In the Words of Wilford Woodruff

Posted on February 9, 2006. Filed under: Poetry, history | Tags: , , , , |

I took a writing class a few years ago in which I was given an interesting assignment. In it we were to take a published journal from some historical figure and write poems using the exact words in their journal. The proceedure was merely choosing passages and erasing words while rearranging the remaining words into [...]

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