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Articles from January 2020

The word: Esssse

January 24, 2020

Maddox is a writer, teacher, and creative force; she writes poems and is also completing a novel that she started as a seventh grader…and only as an adult knows how to finish. I love this idea of finishing the younger self’s work. She offered a word I had never heard (and one with more s’s…

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The word: Flippant

January 10, 2020

Happy New Year, writers and readers! I hope your holidays were festive and that the year is off to a good start. Poetry for Strangers will come out every even Friday in 2020 to make way for other projects, including a film based on Fear of the Beast and a tiny house memoir. Onto this…

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Founded in 2013, Poetry for Strangers is a project dedicated to finding inspiration in the chance encounters of everyday life. PFS suggests that every person can be the muse of a poem. Each week I ask a stranger for a word and write a poem inspired by the word. I invite you to do the same.

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