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Authors in (cyber) residence include:
Margaret S. Mullins, Oliver Rice,
Henry David Thoreau, Drake Raft,
Faye Williams Jones, Regina Murray Brault,
Diana Woodcock, LouAnn Shepard Muhm ,
Laura Sobbott Ross , Ralph Waldo Emerson
and others.

Though [Edward] Weeks says
revision is drudgery, I don’t
agree. You can learn to love
tinkering with drafts of poems
till a warm hand from
somewhere above you reaches
down, unscrews the top of your
head, and drops in a solution
that blows your ears off. Sure,
there are plenty of days . . .
when your revisions seem to be
dragging your poems in the
wrong direction. But you need
to be there writing and waiting.
To say it more simply . . . you
just need to ‘show up for work.’

– Ted Kooser
The Poetry Home Repair
Manual: Practical Advice For
Beginning Poets

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