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I was made in a minor key - Poetry by Tiff Reagan

I published my first poetry collection!

January 8, 2022January 8, 2022

Guess who has her first book of poetry? It’s me! I’m incredibly excited to share that I’ve published a curated collection of my most heartfelt poems. It would mean the world to me if you checked it out.

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Categories: Encouragement / Poetry / Published

“Bright star” by John Keats

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John Keats, poetry, and the romance of a short life –On burning brightly and finding artistic validation in death

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my dreams, my works… by Gwendolyn Brooks

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry, poverty, and a Pulitzer prize What Brooks taught the world about the beauty of community and being a black woman in America Gwendolyn Brooks is an earthy, plainspoken, unpretentious American legend. She won countless awards including a Pulitzer prize and is known around the globe as Chicago’s First Lady of Poetry. She is a…

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I was wrong

May 6, 2019May 6, 2019

At the dimly lit restaurant, We make talk that seems smallEvery time my lips part, I want to scream I was wrong I tell you between my teeth(I was wrong)I say it every time I inhale(I was wrong) When I speak, I stare at my hands instead of staring into your honest green eyes I take…

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Categories: Poetry

Hélas by Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde: Poetry and aesthetics Take a closer look at the Irish playwright’s life and the fashionable, indulgent myth he built up around himself

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My Divine Lysis by Juana Ines de la Cruz

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Episode 4 is a real treat because we’re discussing a feminist icon, a Mexican legend, a religious prodigy, and one of the most loved female poets in recent history.  In her lifetime, Juana Ines de la Cruz wrote several plays, poems, and essays. Two volumes of works were published while she was alive. The last…

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Your checklist of firsts

March 8, 2019March 8, 2019

They say progress is happinessWell how did it feelTo crumple your checklist of firstsAnd leave it on my couch Accomplished? Ecstatic?Motivated for what’s next?It’s a sweet thing to see the inkDried and discarded First isn’t last, unfortunatelyBut you live, you learn, and hey,Ruin is necessityAnd at least you got it out of the way You…

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Categories: Poetry

What I mean when I tell you that I want you

January 27, 2019January 27, 2019

Your body is some artful mix of Grecian marble, sun-drenched canvas, and a palette of a life well lived. You belong in a museum where people can appreciate you from every angle. I love your body and I would visit that exhibit every day. But when I tell you that I want you, it’s not…

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Categories: Poetry

25 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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When most people hear Beat Generation, a few big names rise to the surface of their brains. Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso. But one name sometimes gets buried behind the scenes: Lawrence Ferlinghetti. If you ask him, Ferlinghetti says that he was never a Beat poet. Yet that was the world in which he immersed himself, as…

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First 10 chapters of my novel are now published on WattPad

November 24, 2018November 24, 2018

Friends, babes, buds! I am exceptionally excited to announce that the first 10 chapters of my novel, “Hello, Harbor” are now live on WattPad. Please check it out and let me know what you think. Direct link: https://www.wattpad.com/story/168390639-hello-harbor

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Categories: Developing the story / Published
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