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Joseph Fasano

1 year

The best thing my students ever gave me. I thought they were just really diligent note-takers the whole semester, but it turns out they were compiling a book of all the craziest things I'd said, all *very much* out of context. It's 152 pages long.

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Joseph Fasano

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11 months

My 8-year-old niece wants to be a writer. This is her first poem. "My soul is not made of plastic."

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Joseph Fasano

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14 days

When I was 15, my horse Cinnamon died, and I wrote this. My mother has kept it all these years.

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Joseph Fasano

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6 years

"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'" - Marie Howe

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

I visited a class of second graders to teach them about poetry, and this is a poem one student wrote. What is Life? My name is Marisa. Today I feel like a wealthy lioness prancing in the fields. Sometimes I am a fox. Sometimes I am a wolf. But always I am loyal. I ask the…

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Joseph Fasano

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17 days

oh my god, this email ❤️❤️❤️

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

The person next to me on this airplane is reading my novel. Should I say anything?

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Joseph Fasano

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10 months

I think this is the best diary entry ever.

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Joseph Fasano

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11 months

oh my god 🖤🖤🖤

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Joseph Fasano

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10 months

I just can't get over this poem.

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Joseph Fasano

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5 months

My nine-year-old niece had this question marked wrong. Then she explained that "some books” should not mean 1 or 0 books. PS: She wants to be a writer. ❤️

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Joseph Fasano

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14 days

I lost a student to depression and I'd wanted to send this for weeks.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

Upon request (you all are hilarious), here's more:

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Joseph Fasano

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8 months

I wrote these words when I was first hospitalized for my mental illness 23 years ago, and the kid who wrote this is still helping me now.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

What's your favorite detail of any work of art? I think the right hand of Michelangelo's David is one of the greatest things ever made.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

Ok, you asked for it:

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

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Joseph Fasano

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8 months

A student said he wanted to "go back in time and take Shakespeare's quill so he couldn't write anything. He doesn't speak my language." I said, "Let's sit down and talk about it." The student said he was frustrated by his inability to express exactly what was in him, that he…

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

My students gave me a book in which they'd secretly written down all the random things I'd said that semester. Here's a page from it. ❤️

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1 year

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Joseph Fasano

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11 months

Here is the prompt I gave her. Feel free to use or share it, especially with young writers.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

In 2006, students from Xavier High School in NYC sent Kurt Vonnegut five letters asking the aging writer to visit their class. What he wrote back is one of the most inspiring things ever:

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

This child has taken the viral poetry prompts to a whole other level.

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Joseph Fasano

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8 months

A mother sent me a poem that her 16-year-old autistic child wrote with one of my poetry prompts. I think I will read it every day.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

UPDATE: Joseph Fasano has a *new friend!* My approach: "Are you enjoying that?" Her: "I think so. Have you read it?" Me: "About 100 times." Her: "What?!" Me: "Just to make sure everything was right." (pause) ....and now we're buds

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Joseph Fasano

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10 months

Oof, this poem

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

An absolutely life-changing poem about mothers by @adalimon :

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

A child in Texas wrote this with one of my poetry prompts. Her mother recently passed away. It's astonishing to see what children can create if we make a space for them.

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Joseph Fasano

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8 months

my journal from when I was 16

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

Wow. An 8th-grade student of @MrsHult wrote this poem using one of my poetry prompts, and I just cannot get over that second line. ❤️ Emily, I hope the world sees your poem.

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Joseph Fasano

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8 months

I just found my journal from when I was 13.

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Joseph Fasano

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11 months

This saves me

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

@SomeSweetVandal So brilliant. When she'd written this one she asked if she could write another, and I said, "You don't need permission to be yourself." She smiled & went on writing.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

My 7-year-old niece asked if she could bring me in for show and tell, so I visited her class and taught the students about writing poems. Today I got this anthology of poems.

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Joseph Fasano

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10 months

When I was sent to McLean Psych Hospital at age 18, all I felt was shame. I didn't care that Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, & Robert Lowell had been there. 4 years later, I graduated from Harvard. Their poems helped me get there. It's my turn to say mental illness is not a stigma.

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Joseph Fasano

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6 months

This is my son Leonardo. He is magic.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

❤️all the kids doing the poetry prompt Here's one: My name is Rhett Today I feel like a bright light in the galaxy Sometimes I am a comet Sometimes I am a meteor But always I am amazing I ask the world "can one dot be art?” And the answer is a bright light shining in the galaxy

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

Here's the prompt I made up for them. We had a blast!

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Joseph Fasano

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3 months

My students once gave me a book in which they'd written down all the unhinged things I said in class. It's 152 pages long.

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Joseph Fasano

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9 months

Oooof

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Joseph Fasano

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9 months

My wife Laura Rinaldi is a brilliant artist who somehow conveys people's souls through her portraits. She painted this one of me and our 18-month-old son said, "Dada!" Can you give Laura a little love? She'll see this tweet.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

@limnedinink And I love them! Students are the infinite gift.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

Friends, here is another writing prompt, which I originally designed to help children express themselves, but which I'm now seeing can be used by anyone! Enjoy, and feel free to share it and post the results!

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

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Joseph Fasano

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13 days

Every weekend I think of the best diary entry ever:

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Joseph Fasano

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3 months

When I was 15, my horse Cinnamon died. My mother apparently kept this all these years.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

Here is a thread of all my recent poetry prompts in one place—for people of all ages to use and share. Enjoy, trust yourself, and feel free to post what you create. To start, here is a *new* one:

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Joseph Fasano

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7 months

words whispered to a child under siege

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Joseph Fasano

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6 months

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Joseph Fasano

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3 months

This chokes me up every single time.

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Joseph Fasano

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11 months

When a great artist dies, there is the moment when the world understands it will never again have a new creation from that mind, that heart, that vast soul. It is a loss beyond measure, but what that soul has left us is a gift beyond time. Rest in everything, Cormac McCarthy

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Joseph Fasano

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9 months

I can't get over this poem.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

Today's Poetry Thread: PASSION This little poem is so immense. Feel free to add poems.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

The best lines about a love that wants the other to fully become:

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

When I teach poetry to the littlest humans, they come up with lines like these: "I ask the world, 'Why did people invent money?'" "Sometimes I am an emordle [immortal] jellyfish." "I ask the world, 'Why is there inflatshin [inflation]?'" "How do people get use[d] to other…

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Joseph Fasano

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7 months

this

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

This little infinite poem by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

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Joseph Fasano

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11 months

Today's Poetry Thread: PRETEND This one is just magic. Feel free to add poems.

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Joseph Fasano

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2 years

Today's poetry thread: FAMILY Here's Andrea Cohen with the *mother* of all short poems. Feel free to add poems.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

This is amazing. "She's 90 & has dementia. I'm her helper & she's been wanting to write poems for years. She was in school with Mary Oliver when she was very young. She wrote a poem with your prompt & said please share!" 'I will wake again growing green in the loving morning.'

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Joseph Fasano

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3 months

My mother brought me this to cheer me up. I asked who wrote it. "You did," she said, "as a gift for me when you were a boy."

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Joseph Fasano

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3 months

oh my god

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Joseph Fasano

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3 months

Today's Poetry Thread: NAMES This poem breaks me right open. Feel free to add poems.

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Joseph Fasano

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3 months

Ooof, this poem

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Joseph Fasano

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7 months

Today's Poetry Thread: PROTEST Feel free to add poems.

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Joseph Fasano

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9 months

I love this reminder by @SeanLemonhead :

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Joseph Fasano

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2 years

Anne Carson, with a poem to end all poems

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Joseph Fasano

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4 months

Friends, my health has been less than great, and I am in the hospital for surgery and then a little rest. I hope to keep the Daily Poetry Thread going strong. I leave you for now with these words.

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Joseph Fasano

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7 months

A fourth-grade student wrote this and asked his teacher to send it to me so I could share it.

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Joseph Fasano

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2 years

Today's poetry thread: BREAKUPS Here's *the* breakup poem I wish I had written. Feel free to add poems.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

Today's Poetry Thread: HAIKU Very excited to see what you all have for this thread. Feel free to add poems.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

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Joseph Fasano

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7 months

When I was 15, my horse Cinnamon died. Apparently I wrote this for her in the back of one of my books my mother just found.

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Joseph Fasano

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6 months

A reminder I needed, from my journal 23 years ago.

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Joseph Fasano

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13 days

yes

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Joseph Fasano

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7 months

the children

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

Today's Poetry Thread: GHOSTS I love this little poem. Feel free to add poems.

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Joseph Fasano

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8 months

rough weekend = best diary entry

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Joseph Fasano

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10 months

A mother sent me a poem that her 16-year-old autistic child wrote with one of my poetry prompts. It's my favorite thing ever.

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Joseph Fasano

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9 months

This 8-year-old took my poetry prompt about "anger" and made something perfect.

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Joseph Fasano

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10 months

This poem destroys me.

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Joseph Fasano

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2 years

Tonight's poetry thread: LOVE Here's a killer by Anne Carson. Feel free to add poems.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

This poem by Robert Bly is astonishing.

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Joseph Fasano

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8 months

I think I have to give this student an A.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

Today's Poetry Thread: LOVE You can love yourself on this day, too. Feel free to add poems.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

What are words that help you every time you revisit them? For me, these:

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

I love poems because they can do this

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

Today's Poetry Thread: JOY The compassion in this poem is transformative. Feel free to add poems.

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

Some more by popular demand...

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

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Joseph Fasano

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8 months

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Joseph Fasano

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6 months

During the Vietnam War, a man stood outside the White House every night, for years, holding a candle in solitary protest. One night a reporter finally approached him and asked, "Sir, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here…

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Joseph Fasano

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1 year

from Virginia Woolf's winter notebook

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Joseph Fasano

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10 months

When a teacher gave her kids my poetry prompts, this happened: My name is Rhett Today I feel like a bright light in the galaxy Sometimes I am a comet Sometimes I am a meteor But always I am amazing I ask the world, "Can one dot be art?” And the answer is a bright light shining…