David-Glen Smith, MFA, MA

Poet & instructor. My first book of poetry, VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF DESIRE, is available from Saint Julian Press. Always looking for the perfect metaphor.

[David-Glen Smith, MFA, MA @DavidGlenSmith]

The word "slouching" always impacted my reading. A shuddering of awareness.

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[David-Glen Smith, MFA, MA @DavidGlenSmith]

Play your part and protect our forests https://t.co/vpCsvvPu87

[The Stoic Empire @TheStoicEmpire]

Soon you will be forgotten.

Enjoy.

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“I’ve always felt strongly that a writer shouldn’t be engaged with other writers, or with people who make books, or even with people who read them. I think the farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.”—Nelson Algren
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[David-Glen Smith, MFA, MA @DavidGlenSmith]

So, this is how a eulogy is built and delayed, then reconstructed. A process developing over the last six months and stalled due to insistent pandemic, until the funeral, the laying to rest. Family gathering in the Oklahoma cemetery...

https://t.co/h4XKBMKoha

[Alphonso David @AlphonsoDavid]

Today would have been James Baldwin’s 97th Birthday, a writer whose words are timeless and endlessly poignant.

Happy Birthday, James Baldwin.

[New York Times Books @nytimesbooks]

11 new books we recommend this week. https://t.co/KBMouVoJNH

[Dr. SunWolf ☀️🐺 @WordWhispers]

In the midst of a lecture on poetic infinitives, a child is drawing rainbow cats into a notebook.

[David-Glen Smith, MFA, MA @DavidGlenSmith]

His positive attitude alone transformed to metaphor—as an elaborate analogy, becoming just like a representation of the intricate archeological peeling back of the ancient city of Troy, layer by—

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[David-Glen Smith, MFA, MA @DavidGlenSmith]

11.16.2020—Under the circumstances I have been motioning forward. The unexpected. The misplaced. The setbacks and little discrepancies of chosen ideas. The missing of my father, a furious —

https://t.co/FfunkKCNyP

[Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam - order Grim Root! @BonnieJoStuffle]

Problem: when I finish a book, all but a few scenes or a general feeling seems to fade from memory. Solution? Would love to start journaling about it.

Question: anyone know of cool reading journals that have prompts fit for slightly deeper analysis? Or custom journal makers?

[NeverEnding Story Editor and Poet, Chen-ou Liu @ericcoliu]

@StoryHaikuTanka @MarcieDWessels a maple leaf
zigzags to the ground ...
twilight chill

https://t.co/pIZec1nFRE #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem

[Narrative Magazine @NarrativeMag]

In celebration of #JeanPaulSartre ’s birthday, check out “Sartre and Beauvoir in the Sahara” by Rebecca A. Spears: https://t.co/bioP6tVWcP

[john zbigniew guzlowski @johnguzlowski]

Click on the link to hear me reading this poem:

The World after the Fall

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[Rolli @rolliwrites]

Coffee 21. The day's almost done. ☕

[SpillWords @Spill_Words]

EPIPHANY
written by: Dilip Mohapatra
@dilipmo

When the rarefied daylight
diffuses and dreams into
the dense darkness of the night
and I take refuge
in the shadows of my
corruptible dreams
away from the scrutiny https://t.co/Wy7QnpgWLi

[Henk Heijmans @_Henk_Heijmans]

Icelandic horse, 2014 - by Jóhannes Frank (1963), Icelandic

[The River, Fractured @river_fractured]

6949. 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑑, 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑒

6950. 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑚𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡

[longleaf review 🍃 @longleafreview]

Poet murals really need to just be a thing.

[Steve McEllistrem @SteveMcEllis]

GHOSTS OF THE US DAKOTA WAR - Read it now! - A one-of-a-kind landmark guide to what really happened during the US-Dakota War of 1862 ➡ https://t.co/iB39iWFLZj (Recommended by Wisdom Editions)
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