Not Writing a Novel
@donaldillich.bsky.social
Poet. Author of Chance Bodies, Rescue Is Elsewhere, and Love Poems on Bar Napkins. Technical writer. Published poems in past in The Southern Review, Passages North, Maps Literary, Spork, Iowa Review, and various others.
Some words about my fear. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/anxiety
Anxiety
Icicles and "Jaws"
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June 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Some words about my fear. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/anxiety
The creative process. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/the-clam
The Clam
Ideas on creation
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June 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The creative process. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/the-clam
Taking It Step by Step. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/steps
Steps
Not Getting Lost in the Mist
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June 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Taking It Step by Step. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/steps
Tale of a beard. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/hirsute
Hirsute
Shaven Apostle
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June 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Tale of a beard. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/hirsute
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Reading and Class
My Dead Aunt's poetry reading
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June 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Giving a reading, going to a personal essay class sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/reading-an...
Loss of a favorite restaurant. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/rice-paddi...
Rice Paddies Grill
Loss of a Restaurant
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May 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Loss of a favorite restaurant. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/rice-paddi...
Adding the right amount of imagery. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/imagery-is...
Imagery Is a Tug of War
Too little, too much, just right?
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May 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Adding the right amount of imagery. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/imagery-is...
Creating art, surviving the desk. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/at-the-desk
At the Desk
Staying There and Writing
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May 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Creating art, surviving the desk. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/at-the-desk
J.D. Smith web site: www.jdsmithwriter.com/index.htm
Quiet Wisdom
J.D. Smith's Elegant Verse
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May 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
J.D. Smith web site: www.jdsmithwriter.com/index.htm
Hi everyone, I’m teaching a Pop-Up class on persona poems through The Writer’s Center on July 29th at 7 p.m. If you’re interested in adding another element to your writing, this is the class for you. Follow the link for more details (the class is through Zoom).
$40 Pop-Up: Persona Poems - The Writer's Center
This Persona Poem Pop-Up will help writers get started on making their own persona poems. Part of the class will be lecture/discussion of what makes a good persona poem and what to avoid. The class wi...
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May 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Hi everyone, I’m teaching a Pop-Up class on persona poems through The Writer’s Center on July 29th at 7 p.m. If you’re interested in adding another element to your writing, this is the class for you. Follow the link for more details (the class is through Zoom).
The true enemy of good poems. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/the-perfec...
The Perfect Poem?
Writing Imperfectly
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May 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The true enemy of good poems. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/the-perfec...
Micro-editing poems. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/at-the-mic...
At the Micro Level
Small Changes
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May 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Micro-editing poems. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/at-the-mic...
Humility is key. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/humble-in-...
Humble in the Face of the Muse
Pulling the Cart
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May 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Humility is key. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/humble-in-...
A poem from 2005 or 2006. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/questions-...
Questions About Fear
A very old poem.
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May 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
A poem from 2005 or 2006. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/questions-...
A Friendship Sequel: sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/a-friendsh...
A Friendship
Part II: Fort Meade Trip
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May 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
A Friendship Sequel: sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/a-friendsh...
Missing the apple. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/william-tell
William Tell
Prose Poem
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May 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Missing the apple. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/william-tell
I submitted to Poetry Magazine again. Will this be like the 17 other submissions over the last 13+ years, rejected? I always try to have optimism. But not irrational hope, I hope.
May 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I submitted to Poetry Magazine again. Will this be like the 17 other submissions over the last 13+ years, rejected? I always try to have optimism. But not irrational hope, I hope.
A brief narrative of a college friendship sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/a-friendship
A Friendship
First Installment: College
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May 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
A brief narrative of a college friendship sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/a-friendship
Underworld. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/two
Two
A Few Sentences
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May 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Underworld. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/two
Finding a new way. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/the-maze
The Maze
An Alternative
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May 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Finding a new way. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/the-maze
Why not be a storm? sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/we-are-sto...
We Are Storms
A Short Prose Poem
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May 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Why not be a storm? sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/we-are-sto...
Ways to be more musical in poetry. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/following-...
Following Your Sound
Where the Music Is
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May 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Ways to be more musical in poetry. sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/following-...
Is a first draft that works a miracle? sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/can-a-firs...
Can a First Draft Work?
Poem as Atlantis
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April 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Is a first draft that works a miracle? sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/can-a-firs...
Make your poetic voice tasty! sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/a-matter-o...
A Matter of Taste
Seasoning Our Voices
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April 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Make your poetic voice tasty! sketchofanastronaut.substack.com/p/a-matter-o...