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Leanne

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About Me

I am an English literature major at URI. I transferred out of Providence College after my freshmen year. I'm using this website now to post some samples of my writing. Feedback is always appreciated. Especially negative feedback so I can know what to improve!

If you want to talk books, I have a lot to say, so IM me at DrownedWorldToy on AIM.

My blog on blogger can be found here: http://www.leannemm.blogspot.com Make sure you check out the sub-blog too that I wrote back in September!

My Interests

Books, music, hiking, cycling, good tea, having drinks with friends, yoga, rowing/kayaking, literature, school; writing poems; being outside; swimming in lakes; Jan Ullrich and his thighs; Tour de France;

I'd like to meet:

Jan Ullrcih, Jeff Buckley (even though he's dead), Tori Amos (duh), Santa Claus.

Music:

Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, Tori Amos, Howie Day, Tom Brosseau, The Cranberries, The Moody Blues, Coldplay, Jeff Buckley, Sigur Ros, Garnet Rogers, Ani Difranco, Damien Rice, Sarah McLachlan, Fleetwood Mac, Fiona Apple, Nick Drake, Madonna, Garbage, Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, A Flock of Seagulls, Dresden Dolls, Josh Ritter, Modest Mouse, Natalie Merchant, Patti Smith, Soft Cell, Supertramp, The Killers, a 50 cent song

Movies:

The Silence of the Lambs, Closer, What About Bob?, Contact, Drowning Mona, The Shining, The Bourne Identity/Supremacy, Captain Ron, Monsters Inc., Duplex, Nothing But Trouble

Television:

Reno 911, Law and Order: SVU, Roseanne, South Park

Books:

The Bell Jar, The Poisonwood Bible, Rebecca, John Adams, The Handmaid's Tale, Guns Germs and Steel, White Oleander, Closer, Beloved, any Dean Koontz book, The Science of God, Prodigal Summer, The Concise Oxford English Dictionary, A Tale of Two Cities, 500 Latin Verbs Fully Conjugated, Krakatoa, 500 Spanish Verbs Fully Conjugated, The Elements of Style, Catechism of the Catholic Faith, and probably a ton I am leaving out

Heroes:

Jan Ullrich, Jeff Buckley, John Adams, Abigail Adams.

My Blog

Hangovers

This is called "Hangovers."  It's not really a poem, but it's not really prose, and it's not prose poetry.  It was supposed to be a monologue for a class, but this is how it came out.  ...
Posted by Leanne on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:57:00 PST

An exercise in theft: crab apple trees

        I had to write a passage of prose tonight for my writing class about "a time when I crossed the line."  To do the assignment, I took a poem I wrote abou...
Posted by Leanne on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:06:00 PST

Chicken Parm

Chicken Parm              My sister Allyson and I went out to the Rome restaurant, an Italian restaurant, last year with our parents.  We were s...
Posted by Leanne on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:40:00 PST

Bedroom

Bedroom My bedroom is not the same anymore.  Over the summer, I tore down the old wallpaper that had been in the room for 6 years, and chose new wallpaper to go in its place.  The old wallp...
Posted by Leanne on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:52:00 PST

Update: prose from last time

These are the same selections from the last post, but I edited them and added some more.  Enjoy.By Default Catholics The night sky over Hyde Park always reminded me of the church bells that rang...
Posted by Leanne on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:51:00 PST

Prose. Something new!

So for my psuedo-creative writing class, we are writing prose in memoir style.  We have a list of "writing prompts" from Eudora Welty, so our job is to write four pages every week (once a day) us...
Posted by Leanne on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:42:00 PST

One more week

Sorry I have no new poems to post this week.  I have been busy packing and finishing reading the final two Harry Potter books.  I have three poems that I can post next week, once I settle in...
Posted by Leanne on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:25:00 PST

Old Poetry

This is poetry I wrote back in the day (high school).  I not going to put everything up here, because that would be way too much.  These are just some selections."The Wooden Sign" ...
Posted by Leanne on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:24:00 PST

Morning Kitchen Floor

"Morning Kitchen Floor"  Ground up coffee beans never leave my kitchen floorOn these mornings when I wake upFeeling my brain stem in the back of my head,It's like the ele...
Posted by Leanne on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:45:00 PST

Poems

I am going to start posting poems on my blog.  I wrote one this morning.  It's called "Morning Kitchen Floor."  There is another one that I am halfway done with that I am still working ...
Posted by Leanne on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:49:00 PST