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War Relief Diary

4/5/2022

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The Mennonite Centre serves people in need in Ukraine

Since the horrific invasion by Russia in February, the Canadian-based Mennonite Centre in Ukraine has increased relief work while providing near-daily war updates. These gripping accounts provided the opportunity for me to extract the found poem below (slightly treated). 

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Varied Thrush

2/5/2019

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A tribute to a beautiful bird in this poem that also reflects on bird-safe windows. 

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Haiku That Wins

4/27/2018

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​What a lovely surprise: I won first place, for the second year in a row, of Semiahmoo Arts' Double Exposure Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge! I'll share a bit about the writing process here. 

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writing contests

8/3/2017

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I was invited to read poetry at White Rock City Hall

I finally did it. I have a website as a writer. I want to welcome you, dear reader, to my fledgling site. I hope you will find it fun and informative. 

The other day I entered the writing contest of the Friends of the
White Rock Library. It helped sharpen my prose and gave me a project to work on intensively for the month of July. I also just received the final entries to the literary contest of our local writers' club. It's a ton of work, but I'm sure that having a contest inspires people to write things that they never would have written otherwise. It's been that way for me. 

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    Irene Plett is a writer, poet and animal lover living in South Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. 

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