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Jane Austen & Jesmyn Ward
On today’s post: Thoughts on Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, plus September’s two project reads: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen and Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward! Check it out: https://theadamburgess.substack.com/p/jane-austen-and-jesmyn-ward
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New Substack Today
“A Servant of Sadness”
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The Project Has Moved
Dear Friends, Our project has moved to Substack! Please find my primary page here: https://theadamburgess.substack.com/ This week’s post on Week 2 of Diane Seuss’s Modern Poetry is here: I hope you’ll subscribe on Substack to keep up with the project and its conversations. I’m encouraged by some of Substack’s’ additional features, such as voice and…
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Beginning to Understand, but Barely
Dear Friend, Someone once asked me, “how does a poem begin?” “A poem begins with a deep breath and a thrilling leap,” I said. “The first line, the first word, is the terrifying, exhilarating act of letting go.” Sometimes, maybe. But sometimes a poem begins in much simpler ways. There’s the poetry of life. In…
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March Hiatus; April Blackouts
Dear Friend, Due to a family emergency, The Contemplative Reading Project is on hiatus for the month of March. We will be back on April 1st to begin our reading of the next group selection, BLACKOUTS by Justin Torres! In the meantime, I’m going to try to catch up on my reading of Dictee and…
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