Author: Janie Braverman
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The K Files – coming attractions
The K Files – coming attractionsan off-cycle post for X.P.
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In the dirt
In the dirta three pass erasure for X. P.
The three pass poem:
The translation:
The source material is here.
The source:
“In Dirt” (including X. P.’s Craft Note)
Read more of X. P. Callahan’s work at Diary Poems.
A process note for inquiring minds:
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You are the one thing that matters
My contribution to Erased Land, the 2025 Blackout Poetry Project, The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College.
You can see other erasures from the project here.
Source material: The Family Reunion, a play by T. S. Eliot.
conscious breathing
ordinary breathing
consider
How little I know
Only this –
You are
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a boat
a boatbringing death
In June, I was in the Olympic Valley, near Lake Tahoe, at the Community of Writers Poetry Program.
The poets arrived on a sunny day. Suddenly, the sky darkened, and thunder rolled over the Sierra Nevada mountains. Hail, sleet, rain, and then snow.
That same day, in that same sudden storm, eight people died when a boat capsized on Lake Tahoe.
In six days in the Valley, I wrote eight poems, including this one.
The source material is here.
Here is how “a boat” rose out of the text.
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Blue Bruise
Blue Bruise
Source material:
I usually work with san serif typefaces, in 14 to 16 point, as it is easier for me to read. The work above is in 16 point Aptos.
Often converting a poem from one size text to another changes the lineation.
Here is how “The Blue Dress” was lineated by Saeed Jones.
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Midflight
Midflight
The source, with other thoughts and possibilities:
A Woman Died Midflight. They had to Sit Next to Her Body.
Avian Superhighways: The Four Flyways of North America
A New Flyway: Fall Migrants Cross The Atlantic To Reach South America
Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
