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		<title>Honorably Mentioned</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I began writing poetry several years ago and still think of myself as a literary fiction writer, not a poet. Not really. Poetry is something I dabble in and play with. Even after publishing a few poems, I still hesitate to call myself a poet. Yesterday, I learned that I received second honorable mention in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Prose to Poetry and Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA['m sad that I'm not participating in the poem-a-day madness of National Poetry Month. That's what pulled me into a poetry last year.  I hoped to discover new ways to bring music and imagery into my prose, never thinking I'd fall in love with writing and reading poetry itself (something I'd always avoided)....]]></description>
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		<title>My Gaelic Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I revised my St. Patrick's Day post from last year and posted it at Fictionaut.   A commenter there bestowed on me the Gaelic version of Elizabeth....]]></description>
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		<title>Wild Turkey: Species of the Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike my stepfather and his clan, numerous cousins, the son I spawned, and many friends; I don't usually look at wild animals and think: meat.  Wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo), indigenous to North America, have become a recent exception....]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: Di-Ode</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<title>Sediment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 23:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to catch up on all the work I didn&#8217;t do during National Poetry Writing Month, but I found it hard to resist the Read Write Poem wordle prompt this week.  It&#8217;s a pretty rough attempt that has not faced much reflection or revision.  Now back to working in the garden. I gather the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experiments with Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I overcame a lifelong fear of writing poetry on April Fool's Day. It happened by accident. I had grown tired of my stale prose habits and surfed the web looking for distraction....]]></description>
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		<title>Whys</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/04/whys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NaPoWriMo prompt at Read Write Poem asked us to ponder metaphysics, while the one at Poetic Asides asked for some reflection on miscommunication. This seemed like a good time to try a fibonacci poem.   The words I had only filled out a shorter sequence at the end.  I decided I liked it that way. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Master the Art of Writer&#8217;s Block With Strunk and White</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/04/master-the-art-of-writers-block-with-strunk-and-white/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote (or rather, pirated) this for the &#8220;How-To&#8221; prompt at Read Write Poem with inspiration from Geoffrey K. Pullum&#8217;s recent essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education. _______________________________________________ Master the Art of Writer&#8217;s Block With Strunk and White Avoid a succession of loose sentences. Use definite, specific, concrete language, place yourself in the background [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: Petrified Noise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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