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	<title>A Creative Way Out of Work</title>
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		<title>Hard to Hold</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[brushing back history]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I search for yesterdays and tomorrows
because today is too hard to hold.
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		<title>Protected: Quo: Where Am I Going?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Sun and Sky Remain Unconvinced</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The moon lifts off the tree’s muddy bark, pushing through foliage, on its way home. It has been away too long, it thinks as it moves back to position]]></description>
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		<title>Before the Red Ribbon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Personal Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postcard Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIDS Thunder Bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northwestern Ontario Writers Workshop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NOWW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red ribbon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thunder Bay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the winning essays in NOWW's Postcard Story Challenge. Before the red ribbon, I would press the snooze button once, maybe twice, then shower, dress, and eat breakfast: toast &#038; peanut butter, orange juice.]]></description>
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		<title>Immeasurable</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 05:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[count the questions/countless questions/silence falls/from tongues]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: Physical Manifestation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[new age]]></category>
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		<title>Sky Burial</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2011/02/06/sky-burial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I married the wrong brother./This is what my grandmother said to me./I married the wrong brother, see./We met, my girlfriend and me]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: Intuitive Nudges</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[valerie bean]]></category>
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		<title>Zodiacal Charms</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2011/01/30/zodiacal-charms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[he is a water sign/she is a fire sign/both signs are masculine/a fight to the death]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: Recuperative Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2011/01/29/recuperative-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[car accidents]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[traffic light violations]]></category>

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		<title>Possession</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2011/01/23/possession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[his eyes never leave/her fingers/her fingers never/leave him/ my palm pushes/its way into her skin]]></description>
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		<title>Assignment: Corporate Muse</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2011/01/22/assignment-corporate-muse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative Non-fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Poetry Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not sure when it happened, when I became a corporate muse to my boss, a Mother Hen to my peers, and the type of employee who is resigned to wasting time by covertly taking notes about ]]></description>
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		<title>Two Sides to Every Story</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2011/01/16/two-sides-to-every-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[above the city, a burden./dreams of leaving,/dreams of returning;/the next morning,/I do not resist.]]></description>
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		<title>Luck or Good Fortune? It&#8217;s All the Same, Isn&#8217;t It?</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2011/01/15/luck-or-good-fortune-its-all-the-same-isnt-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Essays]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is luck? We all have highs and lows, emotional, personal, and professional mountain peaks and valleys, but we too easily recall the downside]]></description>
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		<title>Spring on God&#8217;s Little Acre</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2011/01/09/spring-on-gods-little-acre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 11:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Something to Hide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valerie pouin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valerie poulin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[water puddles at angles of life-sized amethyst/squirrels the colour of autumn/steal away/their pockets stuffed with sunflower seeds/yellow bellies]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering the Dead</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2011/01/08/remembering-the-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 12:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[grandfather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keeping memories alive]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My son, when he was on the edge of teenage-dom (around "ten-teen" as his aunt accurately labelled this age that teetered between the innocence of childhood and the grittiness of adolescence), wrote this line for a classroom assignment, "I am sad that my grandfather died."]]></description>
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		<title>Speak</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2011/01/02/his-silent-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[valerie poulin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[He speaks. his hands touch her face. intimate gestures. they share. I watch. his hands. read his thoughts. he reaches across. the swell of her face. the weight of his finger against a shadow]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: A Poet&#8217;s View</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2011/01/01/a-poets-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 10:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Excerpts]]></category>

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		<title>No Photographs (1987)</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/12/26/1987/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[valerie poulin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On your trip to our apartment/in the city/the one time/you dared fly, braved the skies/you asked my sisters/why/there were no photographs/of you]]></description>
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		<title>Giving in the Spirit of Christmas</title>
		<link>http://valeriebeanonline.biz/2010/12/25/spirit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlpoulin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I also wanted to contribute in a more personal way that just cutting three $100 cheques. After all, there's something to be said for the emotional aspect of “the spirit of giving.”]]></description>
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