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Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts
Sunday, March 01, 2026

Prompts for poems

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Prompts for poems can come from anywhere. An unexpected letter from a college friend that triggers a memory. A slant of light that rekindles...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Writing as an act of remembrance

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Writing on some mornings  feels like an act of remembrance  dredging up memories  plunging your pen down a well  and drawing up events  from...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

What I learned in Mrs. Hunt's Fourth Grade Class

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Every day after lunch in Mrs. Hunt's fourth grade class  we returned from recess and sat at our desks and listened to her read aloud to ...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Notes on writing a memoir

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A memoir is built on memories—memoire is the French word for memory, after all, but also the word for memorandum or record—and, since a memo...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Waiting to be remembered

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How many memories are hidden inside your heart, nearly forgotten, waiting to be remembered, to be shared like photographs from an old...
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Bruce Black
Chicago, Illinois, United States
A writer, editor, and teacher, Bruce Black earned his MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and now searches for words and stories on Chicago's northern shore, only a few blocks from Lake Michigan. His book for adults, Writing Yoga, was released in 2011, and his stories for children have appeared in Cricket and Cobblestone magazines. You can contact him at wordswimmer@gmail.com.
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