Category Archives: Poetry

Postcard to July

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Christie

Dear Sun, Look what we’ve done with the few days you’ve managed to make an appearance this month: And this: July 2011 • Volume 4 • Issue 7 The latest issue of Four and Twenty is available for download at … Continue reading →

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Drafts (and some poems published)

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Christie

The past few months I’ve been plagued by the this sense that I haven’t been getting anything done.  I’m running but I don’t feel like I’m getting any faster.  I sit down to write and nothing gets finished.  I pull … Continue reading →

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I’m in a book! Hurrah!

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Christie

In this writing world of internet poetry publication, in which your pay is the intrinsic joy of seeing your own work in pseudo-print, I get inordinately excited when someone else will put my stuff on actual, honest-to-goodness tree pulp paper, … Continue reading →

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Fortune Cookies

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Christie

Some days I’m tired.  Tired of remodels that need to be remodeled again to get them right.  Tired of sitting down at the keyboard and battling the editor.  Tired of that huge gap between what I can imagine and what … Continue reading →

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Everything but ….

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Christie

I stall beautifully.  Today, instead of working on the novel, I did 45 minutes of yoga, knit the second thumb on a pair of complicated fingerless mitts, cooked long a slow oatmeal because it’s “good for you”, read several short … Continue reading →

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Words and Deeds

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Christie

Good things stem from getting something published that have nothing to do with money, which is damn good because I’ve yet to find the money. Within minutes of remembering that this poem was getting its 15 minutes of internet fame … Continue reading →

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On Short Form

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Christie

One of my first favorite poets was Emily Dickinson.  At the time I fell in love with her, I think it was mostly because of the bleeding-heart idealism of being a seventh grade girl who, probably luckily, had not even … Continue reading →

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Chapped

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Christie

I’ve been working on a chapbook, a concept totally foreign to most people who are (a) currently alive and (b) not poetry nerds.  A chapbook is a short collection of poems (16 to 20) threaded often on a single theme … Continue reading →

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Rich

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Christie

I may have overindulged this weekend. It was like restaurant hopping along a string of gourmet cantinas (the Italian kind), and like any good glutton I keep trying to shove more in as the high begins to fail and frankly, … Continue reading →

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Parkway Exit, Revised

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Christie

Tree roots emerging from the cliffside at 4th of July Beach, San Juan Island Driving home the other night, I found my usual exit adorned with a road sign I’ve never seen before.  It read, “Parkway Exit, Revised”, as if … Continue reading →

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