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1,000 miles: step 82
I got news! I have a summer job, and I survived my first week as an office employee. I don’t have a briefcase. I travel light. I do have a key card, office e-mail, and a cubicle. I commute taking the bus and metro. This Friday, through a chance accident of forgetting my stop, I…
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1,000 miles: step 81
What’s Claudia been up to since graduation? Has she been writing? Does she have a job yet? Get all answers in this June update.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Poetry, 21st Century Edition
Here are 7 poetic forms to know to wow your artsy friends and to use in other occasions
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Hey, World: I Am Immigrant and I Graduated College
In the spring of 2012, I unpacked bags and sat on a bed I shared with my mother, a bed inside a room rented through a former friend in the Falls Church area. I had returned from my first year at a small liberal arts school, Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. I had returned…
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1,000 miles: step 79
The fall semester is now over. I have submitted “finals,” known as projects to the English major. Grades are coming in. I have gaps of time–yes, time. It has all gone by so fast. This semester I made a savvy choice, and I took all poetry classes: a small-sized workshop, a course taught in Spanish,…
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1,000 miles: step 78
Alright. Reader, I’ll let you know what I did last summer, this past summer in fact. It’s called summer camp. I don’t believe I’ve ever had a summer like this one. It was fun and jarring every day. I have some experience with kids at the middle school classroom level, so I know that any…
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1,000 miles: step 77
Dear reader, I’m still here. My summer is concluding–next Monday is yet another college term, with the happy knowledge that I’m ever SO close to graduating. I keep telling myself that but 2017 is my year. These past weeks, I’ve been writing less, reading less, which is not how my summer started. But who can write…
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1,000 miles: step 76
Lately, I’ve had to slow down. The spring semester is over. I knew a couple of the graduating seniors–thanks to (a short-lived) student writing adventure, so this was the first semester that I paid attention to graduations. Next year is also my graduating year. I started college fall 2011. Twists and turns have pushed me…
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Hey, Poet: World Poetry Day Awareness
March 21st marks the 16th anniversary of World Poetry Day. First observed in 2000, World Poetry Day is an initiative to celebrate poetry as an art form and a cultural phenomena. If you’re thinking poetry isn’t your thing or it’s a waste of time, I have a few words for you: you are a poem…
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