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Dwell Time
Author of GOLD HILL FAMILY AUDIO (Bull City Press). Poet and baby mama, living in Tennessee. Read more at www.clwhite.work.
By Corrie Lynn White
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Dwell Time
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On deciding, middle-life friendship, and what to do with plums
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The Gardening Feedback Loop is Slow and Inexact (Thank God)
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Post-partum-still-breastfeeding (but barely) bra shopping means you return impulsive “I think I’m this size” online shopping purchases to the UPS store forever into eternity. 👙 🫠🫠🫠🫠
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This morning I’m spending a bit of time (while my husband grocery shops with babe) judging a poetry contest for the North Carolina Poetry Society.
What a beautiful reminder of a few things:
- Hoards of people are still writing poetry in this manic, automated, attention-hungry time.
- Finding ways for your art to both hold and transcend your …
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○ writing to express myself
○ writing to create something
● writing because there’s a version of me that only exists on the page and I think she might be more real than the one walking around
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A dirt delivery from the local garden store, which I split with my neighbor Tori Telfer, allowing us to halve the dump truck fee, is peak village. Peak riches.
Now, let’s make a tiny meadow!
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Just taught my Intro to Creative Writing class (our fourth session this semester) — I had a perfect attendance and it was a perfect class. This magnificent poem by Todd Dillard is easily one of my favorite poems of all time. What a masterclass in line-breaks and meaning-making! Also a brilliant balancing act of abstractions and concrete …
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Exactly.
My favorite writing hack is putting three weird + unrelated anecdotes in a poem and then slowly, in revision, making them kiss.
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AI, motherwork, and the Luddites
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Selling the Rocking Chair & Other Impossibilities
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A reminder for anyone supporting a new mom:
Compliment the way she’s becoming. Name the care you see. Reflect the effort back to her. Let her move slowly. Tell her you’re proud.
New moms don’t need more advice.
They need to feel seen while they’re becoming someone new.