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ANOTHER FIRST DRAFT MAY 11, 2025

Sherry June 22, 2025 June 22, 2025GIFTS OF RESISTANCE 2025, ROUGH DRAFTS poetry 0

I have had a lot of pent up anger. Say “Amen” if “you too”–but finally I was able to let it out with a poem, this poem. However, I have yet to be able to revise it. Revision may not be able to make it better, or maybe revision will …

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Rough Drafts 5, 6, 7

Sherry April 28, 2025 April 28, 2025ROUGH DRAFTS cataract surgery, poetry, Rough Drafts 0

Sometimes a poet has to step back from the experience, step back from the poem, but I always step into it, into the immediacy of it. And then it may sit idly for months or years before I discover what I have written. These poems follow the Sjogren’s poem which …

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words I don’t want (don’t know how) to say-roughest of drafts, 2025

Sherry February 25, 2025 February 25, 2025ROUGH DRAFTS 0

WORDS I DON’T WANT TO SAY. Words I don’t want to repeat, a history of words extinguished from sentences, from texts. Names I don’t want to name. Voices I don’t want to hear. A cacophony of lies, a collage of misinformation. In the beginning.There was a beginning. This is the …

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Rough Draft #4 FEARSOME

Sherry December 21, 2024 April 28, 2025Poetry, ROUGH DRAFTS January 2017, poetry 0

I have recently had document losses because my computer quit and needed to be rebooted. Unfortunately, it seems, only what was stored in icloud was recovered, which wasn’t much. Luckily, many of my files were on the Desktop, which was recovered. It’s all a mystery to me. But here is …

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    Sherry Quan Lee approaches writing as a community resource and as culturally based art of an ordinary everyday practical aesthetic. Lee is a Community Instructor at Metropolitan State University (Intro to Creative Writing, Advanced Creative Writing), and has taught at Intermedia Arts, and the Loft Literary Center. She is the author of A Little Mixed Up, Guild Press, 1982 (second printing), Chinese Blackbird, a memoir in verse, published 2002 by the Asian American Renaissance, republished 2008 by Loving Healing Press, and How to Write a Suicide Note: serial essays that saved a woman’s life, Loving Healing Press, 2008.
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