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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Apr 5
- 3 min
I Eat Rejections For Breakfast Because I'm a Writer: Everyday Magic, Day 1096
Truly, and usually with steaming oatmeal and iced tea when I'm half awake. Perhaps I should eat the rejections with a chocolate amaretto...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Oct 2, 2014
- 2 min
The Storm Before the Storm, and the Actual Storm: Everyday Magic, Day 819
There’s nothing like listening to Wagner while lightning illuminates a vast, dark grey monster you’re driving right into at highway...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Jul 27, 2014
- 2 min
Sneak Preview: Marching with Zombies (from POEM ON THE RANGE): Everyday Magic, Day 808
“Undead Poet Laureate of Kansas,” I had Ken magic-marker onto a white shirt, and then, with a purse full of bookmarks to commemorate the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Jun 25, 2014
- 1 min
Oh Give Me a Poem Where the Buffalo Roam: Everyday Magic, Day 804
Like all book projects to the easily-optimistic, this one seemed kind of easy and fun. Fun it was, but “easy” quickly became a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Mar 27, 2014
- 2 min
Finishing the Last Poem for Chasing Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 794
As a poet, I’m not used to writing a body of poems on deadline although there have been plenty of times I’m pushing and praying through a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Mar 22, 2014
- 1 min
Two Bodies Always in Motion: A Crowd-Sourced Poem of Sorts: Everyday Magic, Day 793
Two Bodies Always in Motion A coruscating kaleidescope of fire, grief, possibility, and beauty about to be ghosted in the velvet memory...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Jan 27, 2013
- 2 min
What a Renga Can Do: Everyday Magic, Day 672
Hearing people read their sections aloud, I noticed all kinds of nuances and gestures in the language that I had missed when reading the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
- Mar 25, 2011
- 1 min
From a Hidey Hole in Eighth Day Books: Everyday Magic, Days 246-247
How does a Jewish girl get to hang in this core of the Wichita Lebanese Orthodox community, and in the sweet attic offices no less? My...
