Our Very Own Little Free Library with Original Art!

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Art Exhibit, Neighborhood, Writing

How many years have I coveted the many, many Little Free Libraries that dot our corner of literary and literate Portland, Oregon? Well, the Little Free Library folks in Minneapolis, Minnesota had a sale over Memorial Day weekend — free shipping — so I treated myself to their original style library. The library kit and the cedar post were made by Amish woodworkers in Wisconsin

 
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What’s In a Word?

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Art Exhibit, Musings, Neighborhood, Writing

There are a series of language lessons on a fence a few blocks from our house. Take a bunch of critters, mount them in tiny dioramas on a wooden fence and add their names in three languages—Chinook, English, and Spanish. What do you have? A cross-cultural language lesson and an art installation all in one. And one that acknowledges the folks who lived on this land before us and, frankly, to whom it rightfully belongs. Before I quit Facebook …

 
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A Group Poem at Tupelo Press

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Art Exhibit, Publication News, Writing

Several years back, the good folks at Tupleo Press came up with the idea for The Million-Line Poem. Poets would submit two lines—a couplet—and the world would see what a collaborative poetic effort could and would became. My two lines were from a poem I wrote long ago about The Combat Paper Project, which per Wikipedia, was“formed to help veterans cope with experiences in the war…

 
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Publication News: “Evidence, Occurrence”

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Art Exhibit, Publication News, Writing

This ekphrastic, free-verse poem was inspired by Dianne Kornberg’s photographs of kelp from the University of Washington’s marine algae Herbarium in her exhibit “evidence of its occurrence” at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2005…

 
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