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	<description>haiku, senryu and tanka by Susan Antolin</description>
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		<title>Reading Sylvia Plath&#8217;s The Bell Jar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar: I remember the day he smiled at me and said, “Do you know what a poem is, Esther?” “No, what?” I said. “A piece of dust.” And he looked so proud of having thought of this that I just stared at his blond hair and his blue eyes and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artichokeseason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080224&amp;post=286&amp;subd=artichokeseason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artichokeseason.wordpress.com/?p=276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[a href=&#8221;http://artichokeseason.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/photo-141.jpg&#8221;&#62; Seattle gum wall searching for words that will stick &#60; Haiku North America, which took place in Seattle on August 3-7, was an incredible experience. I will not try to chronicle the events here, but if you are interested in a detailed and witty account of HNA, please visit Melissa Allen&#8217;s blog at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artichokeseason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080224&amp;post=276&amp;subd=artichokeseason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zuihitsu: Following the Brush</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week between posts stretched to a month, then several months, and here I am returning to my blog with my tail between my legs. What happened to my good intentions? More importantly, how to get back on track? Deadlines, even self-imposed ones, are generally the key for me to keep the flow of words [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artichokeseason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080224&amp;post=267&amp;subd=artichokeseason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Good&#8221; Poems?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While giving a workshop on haiku to teachers in Richmond on a recent Saturday afternoon, one of the teachers asked how to evaluate whether a haiku is “good” or not. My answer – that haiku, like all poetry, is intuitive and touches you in inexplicable ways – failed to satisfy the desire for some objective [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artichokeseason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080224&amp;post=260&amp;subd=artichokeseason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just out of a matinee showing of a popular but entirely forgettable movie, my teenage daughter and I stepped into a large bookstore next to the theater and bought iced coffee. We browsed the bookshelves for a while to pass the time until the others in our family, who were seeing another movie, came to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artichokeseason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080224&amp;post=251&amp;subd=artichokeseason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seiko Baba</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stand at the kitchen sink as the dim early morning light brings the backyard into focus through the window. For this first half hour of my day, the only sounds in the kitchen are my sounds as I pack lunches for the kids and my husband. Today I cut and peel an apple for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artichokeseason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080224&amp;post=247&amp;subd=artichokeseason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Piano Recital</title>
		<link>http://artichokeseason.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/piano-recital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 21:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[the missed note, too, shapes the melody—spring birdsong<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artichokeseason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080224&amp;post=240&amp;subd=artichokeseason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunny and Careless</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 20:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Christopher Robin came down from the Forest to the bridge, feeling all sunny and careless, and just as if twice nineteen didn’t matter a bit, as it didn’t on such a happy afternoon, and he thought that if he stood on the bottom rail of the bridge, and leant over, and watched the river slipping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artichokeseason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080224&amp;post=234&amp;subd=artichokeseason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Hear Me?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 17:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That’s it. Stop pacing—I can’t stand it. Just get something substantial to eat—there’s plenty in there. Don’t hold the fridge open, grab something and shut the door. If you’d just eat something, a whole meal, you won’t have to keep standing up and pacing around the kitchen. Look, there’s salmon, chicken curry, potato salad, pasta [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artichokeseason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080224&amp;post=202&amp;subd=artichokeseason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cleo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sat with the phone in my hand for at least twenty minutes before I got up the courage to call the vet to ask for an appointment to talk about putting our old dog down. Of course, I had agonized my way towards that call for many months. While it was clear the right [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artichokeseason.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6080224&amp;post=196&amp;subd=artichokeseason&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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