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Primitive by Sharon Olds
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The only thing that separates us Americans in 2019 from men 50,000 years ago is the hubris of modernity. We are all primitive and Sharon Old gets it. And it's beautiful and meaningful, both.
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Reading to Myron Stout
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I feel like this was a writing project I did in class at GWU
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Reducing Valve
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Rothko Chapel
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I visited Houston for a while in 1996. The Rothko Chapel is worth visiting Houston to see. It really can convince even the most resolute naysayer that there is something greater than ourself.
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Satan Says by Sharon Olds
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Being exposed to the profane done artfully and in a way that shows the humanness innate in blasphemy and heresy. This poem, by poet Sharon Olds, from her book Satan Says, was one of those experiences. That and The Pope's Penis, another of her poems.
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Seattle then
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Found poetry from a hyperfiction I created collaboratively with a bunch of friends back in 1998, called Collabor8, or 8: A Collaborative Hypernarrative Fiction
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Self Care: It’s Looks Different To Everyone
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Today, let’s take a look at the world of self care, where one size doesn’t fit all and that’s absolutely fine. It’s like picking your favorite ice cream flavor—some may scream for mint chocolate chip while others are all about that classic vanilla.
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Sex Without Love by Sharon Olds
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Maybe I have been hobbled by growing up Catholic or putting women on pedestals because of all-boys school. But I have never swiped left or right on Tinder. I am no choir boy. I have had more than my fair share. But going through lovers has never been the way I have ever passed my time. It's neither sport nor a source of story or content. I feel like Sharon Olds gets my feelings perfectly right.
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Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
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To me, this is the most important poem ever written and shared with the world, more important to what it is to be an American than the Constitution, Bill of Rights, The Gettysburg Address, or even the Declaration of Independence. The I Have a Dream speech is this poem's brother.
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Song of Myself, V by Walt Whitman
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"Loafe with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat," is one of my favorite lines of poetry.
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