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In August 2021, Thomas Cannon was selected as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Oshkosh, WI. He is the author of the books The Tao of Apathy and Shattered. With his essay “Part of the Gift,” Cannon was the lead contributor to Cup of Comfort for Parents of Children With Autism. His poems and short stories have been published in various journals such as Midwestern Gothic and Corvus Review. Thomas is active in the Oshkosh writing community, having helped establish the Lakefly Writers Conference. He and his wife have three children and two grandkids.

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Thomas Cannon Consistency. I feel if you schedule yourself, it soon becomes muscle memory and your mind readies itself for writing. Of course I have bad days, but I…moreConsistency. I feel if you schedule yourself, it soon becomes muscle memory and your mind readies itself for writing. Of course I have bad days, but I try to keep my butt in that seat anyway.(less)
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Mastering Poetry: Write a Million Words to Success

“Your first million words don’t count.” In other words you have to write a million words to get good.”  

I think this is a great thing to keep in mind in order to keep writing and keep striving to get better (and actually if you keep writing, you will get better).

For poets this leads to another thought that I will keep to myself except for here is to start with rhyming poetry.

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“The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over.”
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