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Trust Your Voice – Speak Your Truth by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist – From the wisdom of Soulspeak Asheville, young poets considered the question: “What does it mean to speak the truth in America?” I was one of three judges at a reading this week. InContinue Reading

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Sky Writing by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist It’s all because of clouds. Poets can’t help themselves. The names of clouds are poetry: Cirro-cumulus, Cumulo-nimbus, Nimbo-stratus, for example. Cirro means wisps of hair, the highest clouds. Cumulo means puffy, or heaped clouds, thunder-heads. (The kind I conjureContinue Reading