Wising Up Together- Karen L. Harris
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The Garden You Have is the Garden You Rake
The good and bad news about nothing lasting forever
Jan 31
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Karen Harris
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Just Drop By! Just Drop By.
Playing with Friends, Frank O'Hara's "Why I Am Not a Painter," and the Comfort of Ongoingness
Nov 17, 2025
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Wild Girls and Buried Treasures
"St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves," The Compliance/Resistance Conundrum, the Dunkin Donuts Overnight Shift, and Being a (Wolf) Girl
Sep 16, 2025
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Karen Harris
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Creation and Destruction, Lucinda Williams, and Secrets of a 30 Year Friendship
Nov 5, 2023
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Karen Harris
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But this was my plan, and I already told people
Jul 28, 2025
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Just Drop By! Just Drop By.
Nov 17, 2025
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Not Waving but Drowning
Oct 20, 2024
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No Swimming in the Government Lake
Dec 10, 2024
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And Some Time Make the Time: Looking Where You're Going, and Seamus Heaney's "Postscript"
Feb 14, 2024
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Karen Harris
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But this was my plan, and I already told people
Do-overs, getting on with it, and falling for Marquee Moon again
Jul 28, 2025
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Holding on for dear life, and also love
The Death-Grip Loves, Jane Kenyon's "Let Evening Come," and Figuring Out What's Yours to Let
Mar 25, 2025
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What Chaos Can We Toss? What Past Can We Love?
Andrade's Souvenir of the Ancient World, Chaos, Ongoingness, and Tossing Stuff You Don't Want People to Read After You Die
Feb 16, 2025
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Somebody Loves Us All
Elizabeth Bishop's "Filling Station," and even more proof
Jan 12, 2025
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No Swimming in the Government Lake
Sketchy Guys in Charge, "The Government Lake" by James Tate, and One Good Surprise
Dec 10, 2024
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Not Waving but Drowning
The Hazards of Pretending We're All Fine
Oct 20, 2024
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A House Going Quiet
Wallace Stevens and Reading a Restless Mind
Aug 25, 2024
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The Age of Innocence, Shoplifting, and The Bear
"Coastal" by Mark Doty and the Audacity of Childhood
Jul 4, 2024
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Moving as a Pack, Part I: Hearing Things
Mark Doty’s poem A Display of Mackerel and the beauty in numbers
May 11, 2024
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Wising Up Together- Karen L. Harris
Wising Up- Living, learning, teaching. One poem at a time.
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