Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Glad Tidings
I wanted to say I’m doing ok and everything’s good but there’s no sense in that, so I’ll just tell you ’bout Lizzie’s birthday party the other day. She wore…
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Gave it all away
Wearing a white kikepa to the stand The prosecution found it necessary Objections from the defense The judge nodded for her to do so The prosecution found it necessary Asked…
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You could say
a lot of shit about that night, but me, I ain't talking. It is what it is, a Brodie, that's how it goes sometimes. We all had too much to…
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To Die
You are not here. Not your smooth skin taut over bones, over warm blood coursing through your heart. Heart of a brown mother, heart of a brown father heart that…
When Jean ended on the line if the walls could talk, I immediately went to either Thalia or Grace (Thalia's mother). The connotation of walls talking would be of scandal…
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If the Walls Could Talk
Dearest Margaret, I so envy you- Downtown must be ablaze with Christmas decorations and everyone would have their invitation to Amanda's party by now- I shall miss it all! The…
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Joins the Battle (a three-part act in 60 seconds)
Setting: 1 Above him a large black and white photo of a battleship-not his- churns forward through white foam. The photo is stationed in a curved silver embellished frame. One…
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What Are They
I said nothing the night they came, the first night gone put away the stew warming on the stove, closed the lights, closed my eyes to his lean arms- his…
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Reading Assignment: Stannard’s “Honor Killing” (a prelude)
I don’t want to read this story. Don’t want to know their names, imagine their faces. I catch my breath as the words surface; Tin Can Alley, barefeet football, brown…
Giving creative writing tools to teachers that they can use to encourage original writing, expounding on what "good" poetry is, how to recognize it and more importantly, write it