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bfleda.bsky.social @bfleda.bsky.social · 1d

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My interview with myself: illuminating!

I INTERVIEW MYSELF ABOUT MY NEW BOOK, THE END OF THE CLOCKWORK UNIVERSE: Q:  I’m so happy to spend this time with you, Fleda, to talk about your new book! I’m a great fan. I’ve read every wo...

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bfleda.bsky.social @bfleda.bsky.social · 3d

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Monday's poem I dug out of the attic where I store the old ones.

In Praise of Autumn

An old poem I'd forgotten about.

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bfleda.bsky.social @bfleda.bsky.social · 10d

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Every Monday I post an old poem I don't want to be forgotten. At least not now.

Way Too Much Sugar

But that's how it is when you're young.

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bfleda.bsky.social @bfleda.bsky.social · 15d

www.fledabrown.com/blog/my-wobb... Some thoughts on staying engaged, on Wobbly today.

My Wobbly Bicycle, 326 (Copy) — Fleda Brown

Staying engaged can apply to writing, to poetry, as well as to the political situation. You’d think you couldn’t help it, as a writer, but there are deeper levels of being engaged. Some of them involv...

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bfleda.bsky.social @bfleda.bsky.social · 17d

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A poem from The End of the Clockwork Universe, available now from Carnegie Mellon U. Press but actually launching on Oct. 7.

Catalytic Converters

A free poem from my new book. Now would you order the book?

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bfleda.bsky.social @bfleda.bsky.social · 29d

www.fledabrown.com/blog/my-wobb... Today's Wobbly is all prose poems, backache, and mushrooms, mushrooms!

My Wobbly Bicycle, 325 — Fleda Brown

My back’s been painful all summer. Finally, after MRI and x-rays, the source has been identified, cortisone injected last Thursday, and I’m feeling much better. For now at least. But still, there’s li...

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bfleda.bsky.social @bfleda.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Today's Wobbly about writers and their marriages.

My Wobbly Bicycle, 324 — Fleda Brown

Our 34th anniversary was Saturday. Who would’ve thought? We’ve had this many good years together! I don’t know how it would be, two poets living and working together. It could be great, helping each...

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bfleda.bsky.social @bfleda.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Wild Sweet Pea

A Happy Thing

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bfleda.bsky.social @bfleda.bsky.social · Aug 13

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In today's Wobbly, talk a little about The End of the Clockwork Universe, that comes out in October.

My Wobbly Bicycle, 323 — Fleda Brown

Hot! We now have ceiling fans in every room of the two cottages, minus one, which will happen as soon as the electrician can get to it. And, with whatever’s going on with my hip, I can’t swim or even ...

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bfleda.bsky.social @bfleda.bsky.social · Aug 3

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When a bird loses its mate. A poem.

You Are Breaking My Heart

Listening to a lone bird

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bfleda.bsky.social @bfleda.bsky.social · Jul 11

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Here you go! A way to pre-order my new book and a peek at the glorious cover!

The End of the Clockwork Universe

A luminous new perspective on aging, science, and the tender strangeness of being alive. What does it mean to exist in a universe that refuses to stay still? In The End of the Clockwork Universe, Fled...

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bfleda.bsky.social @bfleda.bsky.social · Jul 30

Taking time off. And a little poem.
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My Wobbly Bicycle, 322 — Fleda Brown

Dear friends, I’m taking time off. Everyone needs time off, I’d say. In the meantime, here’s a little prose poem for you.

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bfleda.bsky.social @bfleda.bsky.social · Jul 11

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Here you go! A way to pre-order my new book and a peek at the glorious cover!

The End of the Clockwork Universe

A luminous new perspective on aging, science, and the tender strangeness of being alive. What does it mean to exist in a universe that refuses to stay still? In The End of the Clockwork Universe, Fled...

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bfleda.bsky.social @bfleda.bsky.social · Jun 13

Here's the faculty of this year's Interlochen Writers' Retreat. I love these people. I gave a craft talk on "Coming to Terms with Disorder, Disruption, and Just Plain Evil." I have never gotten to speak at a more important time.