Jan Carroll
A Talk Instead of a Blog Post
The month of February I didn't get a blog post written. I was busy with another project! On March 4 I had the honor and joy of being part...
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Jan Carroll
- Jan 18
- 4 min
Questions on Framing and Relevance in Poetry Writing and Reading
If this picture was a poem, what kind of poem would it be? Bucolic? Pastoral? There’s a peace and a beauty inside this dwelling, though...
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Jan Carroll
- Dec 15, 2022
- 3 min
Triptych
Celebrating my grandson’s birthday a day late, he tentatively opens each gift: doctor kit, dinosaur book, a quartet of practical-work...
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Jan Carroll
- Nov 14, 2022
- 4 min
Vulnerability and the Writing Life
Photo by Rachel Kohn The rule at my community garden is to clean up/remove all plant matter in preparation for overwintering. One...
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Jan Carroll
- Oct 15, 2022
- 6 min
But, What Does It MEAN?
I go to Urgent Care early on a Monday morning, concerned that the irritated, possibly allergy-induced skin around my right eye has...
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Jan Carroll
- Sep 19, 2022
- 6 min
Riding the Ricochet--and Beyond--in Our Writing
For Love, for Justice, For Vision Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman explains in an interview he loves getting an idea from another band...
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Jan Carroll
- Aug 11, 2022
- 5 min
Love Note to Struggling Creatives
While my clothes wash in the laundromat, I sit outside in my car, listening to music. The car faces the laundromat, its front almost all...
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Jan Carroll
- Jul 17, 2022
- 4 min
Carrying the Candle Across the Pool
My friend Paul is taking up the hobby of film (instead of digital) photography. Always looking for more opportunities to practice this,...
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Jan Carroll
- May 9, 2020
- 4 min
Where We Are
This essay was written way back in 2001 or 2002 for a really great class by Kate Hale Wilson at the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire....
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