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The Power of a Date

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Maggie Smith
Dec 21, 2023
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(Okay, not that kind of date.)

Hi, Friend.

Recently I shared the early drafts of my poem “December 18, 2008” from Goldenrod. This poem uses as its title my daughter Violet’s birthday.

I started thinking about the power of providing a date as a jumping-off point, a frame of reference, for a piece of writing.

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