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When you've read too many other poets
When your own voice disappears under the weight of everything you have read — a five-minute exercise drawn from Mary Oliver on practice over polish.
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When you're stuck
Small exercises for when the page feels empty.
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When devotional pressure makes you self-censor
When reverence for the subject silences the poem before it begins — a ten-minute exercise in naming the pressure and writing inside it.
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When the draft has gone cold
When you return to a draft and it feels like someone else wrote it — a ten-minute re-entry exercise drawn from Hirshfield on distance.
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When the page feels empty
When the cursor blinks and nothing arrives — a five-minute exercise drawn from Richard Hugo's idea of the triggering subject.