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Colleen Smith writes and gardens in a Denver historic district. A longtime contributor to Sunset Magazine, The Denver Post, Colorado Expression and other publications; she studied in University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop. She is a fellow of the Salzburg Seminar’s international intellectual community. Visit her Bluestocking blog at colleenwordsmith.blogspot.com.

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For a snowy Sunday in Denver: Two garden poems from recent issues of The New Yorker

For my time and money, The New Yorker ranks among the finest magazines published in the United States. The weekly include works by our finest...
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Writers in gardens

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Perhaps writers flock to the poetic common names of plants: bleeding heart, red birds in a tree, love in a mist. Or maybe English-major-sorts...
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Bring a book into your garden

When you were a kid, did you participate in your public library’s summer reading program? I did. Eagerly. I was in it for the ribbons—the...
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'We've got to get ourselves back to the garden'

“We are stardust, We are golden, And we’ve got to get ourselves Back to the garden.” -- Joni Mitchell For more info: Click...
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Mary Oliver's "Invitation"

Invitationby Mary OliverOh do you have timeto lingerfor just a little whileout of your busyand very important dayfor the goldfinchesthat have...
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Daisies: I love them, I love them

Fresh as a …You got it: daisy! Maybe it’s their milky white petals that make daisies seem an icon of freshness.A perennial favorite, the...
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Flower speak: a dead language

Even if you listen attentively, your ear to the ground in the garden, you probably won’t hear flowers speak. Yet they have a language all their...
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Interviewing Jamaica Kincaid about her garden

Jamaica Kincaid wrote a nonfiction garden book titled My Garden [Book]: and also edited a collection titled My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners...
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Fruits, vegetables, and nuts symbolized various sentiments

Speaking naturally through the natural world included in the parlance not only flowers, but also fruits, nuts, vegetables and herbs--a veritable...
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My meditation hammock: acting on meditation advice from Elizabeth Gilbert

In 2008, I had the honor of interviewing Elizabeth Gilbert, the it-girl of the literary world, whose book “Eat, Pray, Love” long reigned...
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