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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Traveling Music

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 My third in this series, Traveling Music, was inspired by a Howard Johnson's ad. The colors in this vintage advertisement are what drew...

A New Soft Look

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 Second in my series of experiments, A New Soft Look, was inspired by a vintage lipstick advertisement. I fixated immediately upon the repea...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Put Some Zest in Your Nest!

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I am starting a new project today. It is based on the abstraction of ads from the era of Mid Century Modern. For example, today I took the f...
Monday, November 23, 2015

The Daily Grind

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Learning to be a writer is a multi-pronged approach. I recommend: writing in your journal each day, whether you employ totally free writi...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Language IS A Virus!

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Welcome to our Wednesday evening writing group! I think we had a fabulous first night yesterday and look forward to many more interesting di...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Creative Writing Workshop

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I will be setting up a blog to support our weekly writing workshop. It will contain links to interesting sites, examples of writing, ass...
Friday, November 9, 2012

Taking on a Challenge

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Last week, when I was talking to one of my students, Kara, about a writing exercise that starts with, "I remember," and then shift...
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Cheryl Hicks
has been published in Crate, Halfway Down the Stairs, Southern Hum, The Best of the First Line: Editors’ Picks 2002-2006, Families: The Frontline of Pluralism, The Remembrance Project at Howard University, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Other Poetry (UK), Juice, Poems-For-All, Literal Translations, Toward the Light (Canada), The Sigurd Journal, Ginosko, Eskimo Pie, Urban Spaghetti, Blue Fifth Review, Heliotrope, Makar, Snakeskin (UK), HerCircle, The Orphan Leaf Review (UK), the delinquent (UK), Autumn Sky Poetry, Silent Actor, Avatar Review, Word Riot, Clockwise Cat, Halfway Down the Stairs, Monkey Kettle (UK), Washington Literary Review, Shakespeare’s Monkey Review, and Unquiet Desperation (UK). She has been a featured poet at C/Oasis, is a previous recipient of the Paddock Poetry Award and presented poems from her series titled Conversations with the Virgin at the 2006 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference in Tucson, Arizona. Hicks’ art has been shown across Texas and in New York, and her collages have appeared in CELLA’s Round Trip, Anti-, Blue Print Review, and Creative Soup. Her mixed media work was featured at the Fort Worth Contemporary in July 2008.
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