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Category: Unpublished Gems

Encounter with an Angel

Jeanette Hardage could sometimes be shy about sharing intimate details about herself. For instance, a couple of her most poignant poems disguise her involvement by describing an experience in the third person, using made-up people. Around 1998, she had an experience that she wanted to …

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essays, faith2 Comments on Encounter with an AngelOctober 21, 2020November 21, 2021 By Alison Edwards

Writer’s Lament

As many writers probably do, Jeanette Hardage found the process of promoting her own writing to be unpleasant work. She admitted in a 2004 letter to a friend that she didn’t like marketing, and as a result, “my failing is that I don’t mail my …

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poems, the life of a writerLeave a Comment on Writer’s LamentSeptember 23, 2020March 21, 2024 By Alison Edwards

What She Really Wanted to Say

During the early 2000s, Jeanette Hardage was a prolific book and film reviewer. She was not equally enamored of everything that she read or viewed, of course, and when completing a review she was honest about her disappointment with blurry photos, unnecessary exaggeration, or pointless …

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humor, poems, reviewsLeave a Comment on What She Really Wanted to SayAugust 26, 2020March 21, 2024 By Alison Edwards

Sailing Through Life

Jeanette Hardage found inspiration in the writing of Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate from 2001-2003, to the point that she incorporated some of her favorite phrases from his book Sailing Alone Around the Room into a poem of her own. She called this a “silly” …

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Billy Collins, Owen Hardage, philosophy of life, poems1 Comment on Sailing Through LifeJuly 29, 2020August 26, 2025 By Alison Edwards

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