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Writing The Worlds Language
FWM Online Magazine was founded in 2010 as an outlet for writers to share their voice. A member of the Flexwriters Creative Network, FWM Online features topics that range from author interviews to exploratory essays to articles on world and social events. FWM is also interested in writers who [...]
Jade Miramontes
Jade Miramontes was born at Osan AFB in Taejon, South Korea. She came here to the U.S in February of 1980, and has been in California ever since. Jade has had a love affair with writing and literature since she was a young child; and won several creative writing awards. In her Freshman year [...]
6 May 2013
… on our Second Amendment. No doubt you all know about the tragic attack on the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. None of you will hear me say that [...]
8 Dec 2012
Dear Readers, as I am sure most, if not all of you know, quite a few of my fellow Californians attempted to abolish the death penalty here in this state. [...]
Writers Digest
Rivers and estuaries So here’s the last (unless I have afterthoughts) of my mini-series about environments or types of places that help to inspire my poems and feature in them. Hmm… maybe forest? We’ll see. Anyway, this is about rivers. Many poets have been fascinated by rivers – fast ones, slow ones, big ones,...
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The sea, the shore I had the idea of posting with some thoughts about types of places or things in scenery that inspire me and appear in my poetry. So – number one: THE SEA AND THE SHORE. The sea is mysterious for us because unless we dive, we see only the surface –...
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Long lines or short? Poetry’s origins are in song and chant that made their impact by sound. It remains, for me, an art of the spoken word: that it’s seen in print on the book page or the computer screen or by Kindle is a convenience but not an end. We need to hear...
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“I’ve seen it recently said on LinkedIn that it’s wrong to limit poetry through any kind of definition, wrong to say that anything isn’t poetry.” I understand the thinking behind this – and maybe at times I’ve been too willing to make absolute statements about poetry. But if anything can be poetry, why...
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According to some academics, it’s meaningless to ask what a writer meant, or at least, pointless because we can’t tell. Maybe nothing means anything. This is an attitude that could only exist in academia. People everywhere else are engaged in the risky, uncertain business of guessing what other people mean all the time. A...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951) Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. (Philosophical Investigations, 1953) Two philosophical camps emerged from the last century: The first camp views philosophers as those who endeavor to answer profound and fundamental questions, or to construct systems for doing so. The second...
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The Jetsam essays by Lara Biyuts excerpt The Winged Man-Lion Seeing the bronze statue of David by Andrea del Verrocchio (1435–1488) and musing. It is claimed that Verrocchio modeled the statue after one handsome pupil in his workshop, namely, young Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). As far as we know, Verrocchio...
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Sometimes a particular image emerges in one poem I write and then comes back once or several times more unprompted. Sometimes there’s a bit of planning or prompting involved. I’d be keen to hear whether other poets experience the same. This is a different matter from recurring themes or topics. For example, DRAGONS are...
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Vernon Watkins (June 27, 1906 October 8, 1967), was a Welsh poet, commonly known for his friendship with his fellow Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, and was considered to be a great but underexposed writer of his age. During his lifetime he published eight volumes of poetry, and several others were released after his...
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I remember being just twelve years old. My daily routine after getting out of school was to go to the corner grocery mart and buy myself a pack of cookies to dip in a nice glass of milk once I got home and did my homework. I remember this one day particularly well. ...
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