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Sarah Holsberg wrote a new blog post Independent Life: An Act of Creation in a Tumultuous World in the group American Studies: 5 years, 8 months ago

“I chose a spot near the river. There I prepared the seed to go into the ground. I gave it a thick, nutritious coating, then brought it out of my body through my right sensory hand. I planted it deep in the r […]
Sarah Holsberg edited the blog post Learning/Leaning in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago

“Learn and Run!”–Octavia Butler, Dawn

The sentence fragment of “Learn and Run,” one of the course epigraphs, has a simple syntax: two verbs, present tense, joined together by the conjunction “and.” The verb […]
Sarah Holsberg wrote a new blog post two creative writing workshops come to an end in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 9 months ago

I start every portfolio letter with saying that the writer’s portfolio is well-constructed. I geniunely mean that statement. Every portfolio that I have had the pleasure of reading is one that is well […]
Sarah Holsberg edited the blog post The Environment and Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 10 months ago

Last class we had workshop outside. How could we not? It was sunny and warm, and the green just outside Welles looked so inviting. I was practically skipping outside, and desperate to find a good seat. […]
Sarah Holsberg wrote a new blog post The End of Workshop in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 11 months ago

It’s hard for me to sit at my seat in workshop and not respond to people when they are critiquing my work. So hard. Sometimes I want to run over and hug the person who got the exact intention of my poem, or just […]
Sarah Holsberg edited the blog post Confessions about the Confessional in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 11 months ago

The Art of Losing

Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;

So many things seem filled with the intent

To be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept t […]
Sarah Holsberg edited the blog post Re-Visiting ENGL 301 in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years ago

It’s amazing how much can change in a year. I’m back in ENGL 301, at the same time as last year, and I am comforted by the familiar. I was in the workshop that was the test for the writing pods structure, which […]
Sarah Holsberg edited the blog post Recursion, Feedback, and Friction in Lucille Clifton’s “surely i am able to write poems” in the group American Studies: 7 years, 3 months ago

surely i am able to write poems

celebrating grass and how the blue

in the sky can flow green or red

and the waters lean against the

chesapeake shore like a familiar

poems about nature and […]
Sarah Holsberg edited the blog post The Aftermath of a Threat and a Call to Action in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago

It feels appropriately recursive that I end my time posting with the same topic that I started with: the topic of homelessness in Victor LaValle’s Big Machine. I predicted in my last post and in conversations w […]
Sarah Holsberg edited the blog post Bloodchild and A Wrinkle in Time in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago

Octavia Butler’s piece Bloodchild disarmed me when I first read it. The way that T’Gatoi would speak to the narrator was something that disturbed me, and the idea that the male narrator would end up carrying an e […]

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