Author: Sara Norja
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Sunday recs: Four poems
Poems! I’ve been writing a poem a day for the past week, so today’s recs are poetry too. Tintagel, by Beth Langford (in Goblin Fruit). The language and imagery in this poem are just gorgeous! Tesseract: A Parent’s Guide to Time Travel, by Kimberly Gladman (in Wild Violet). A lovely homage to Madeleine L’Engle’s A…
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‘Helsinki Love Song’ online in Wild Violet
My poem ‘Helsinki Love Song’ is one of the featured works in Wild Violet’s Valentine’s Day week series. ‘Helsinki Love Song’ I don’t like Valentine’s Day much due to the focus on a very restricted type of love – Finland is better in that respect, because here it’s known as ystävänpäivä, ‘Friend Day’, and is…
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Poetry publication: Two poems in Chantarelle’s Notebook
Issue #33 of Chantarelle’s Notebook is now up! It’s full of good stuff (I especially liked the poems by Azar Blanca and Mark Mitchell). The issue includes two of my poems, ‘Ninety-Eight’ and ‘City of Stones’. I wrote a little bit about the two poems in this post where I announced the publication. I’m especially…
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Poem for the year’s end
Soon off to celebrate the approaching new year. So here’s my last post of 2013, in the form of a just-written poem. Here’s to a good new writing year in 2014! * Year’s-end, year’s-beginning What words to wrap the year in? How to sing in the new? Should I end and begin with ringing bells…