Kate Greenstreet's Young Tambling or Cole Swensen's Gravesend or Martha Ronk's Transfer of Qualities
Wayne Koestenbaum's My 1980s
Bhanu Kapil's Schizophrene
Catherine Taylor's APART
Sunday, December 15, 2013
CA Conrad's list
The latest thing on facebook is to post the ten books that have stayed with someone. I enjoyed CA's, so here it is:
13 books of poetry that changed my life (i.e. saved my life)
(in alphabetical order by poet):
kari edwards, A DAY IN THE LIFE OF P
Alfred Starr Hamilton, THE POEMS OF ALFRED STARR HAMILTON ...
Merle Hoyleman, ASP OF THE AGE
Mina Loy, THE LOST LUNAR BAEDEKER
Bernadette Mayer, STUDYING HUNGER
Rosalie Moore, THE GRASSHOPPER'S MAN
Eileen Myles, SAPPHO’S BOAT
Alice Notely, HOW SPRING COMES
Gil Ott, PUBLIC DOMAIN
Ron Silliman, ed., IN THE AMERICAN TREE
Jack Spicer, THE COLLECTED BOOKS OF JACK SPICER
Susie Timmons, LOCKED FROM THE OUTSIDE
John Wieners, BEHIND THE STATE CAPITOL
(in alphabetical order by poet):
kari edwards, A DAY IN THE LIFE OF P
Alfred Starr Hamilton, THE POEMS OF ALFRED STARR HAMILTON ...
Merle Hoyleman, ASP OF THE AGE
Mina Loy, THE LOST LUNAR BAEDEKER
Bernadette Mayer, STUDYING HUNGER
Rosalie Moore, THE GRASSHOPPER'S MAN
Eileen Myles, SAPPHO’S BOAT
Alice Notely, HOW SPRING COMES
Gil Ott, PUBLIC DOMAIN
Ron Silliman, ed., IN THE AMERICAN TREE
Jack Spicer, THE COLLECTED BOOKS OF JACK SPICER
Susie Timmons, LOCKED FROM THE OUTSIDE
John Wieners, BEHIND THE STATE CAPITOL
Sunday, December 8, 2013
When does one write?
"How many hours do you write a day? And how do you do it? Stay up late? Set a schedule? Strict routine or random?"
Good questions! My answer is: depends on the day. I get more done during breaks. 0 to 2 hours on normal days.
Really, during semesters of teaching, my writing is narrowed down. I often make lists of strategies, things I want to write, etc. then go to that list when I have time.
I take the William Stafford approach, by waking up early in the morning and heading to PT's or the office to get some writing done. I also write to my friend Kevin Rabas, around three letters a week. He sends me letters too, so it is a terrific way to write, reflect, correspond.
I get most of my writing done during winter break, or during summer vacations. I know a lot of my writer friends do well in winter, too, as one gets isolated, turns inward. Also, there is something about getting away that helps with creativity. I wrote/compiled My Secret Wars of 1984 during a vacation in 2011, and it should be my first full-length book. I've had the most published from that.
I can't write when it is late. Instead, when I can't sleep, I watch Netflix. I am more poetic, more productive in the morning.
Good questions! My answer is: depends on the day. I get more done during breaks. 0 to 2 hours on normal days.
Really, during semesters of teaching, my writing is narrowed down. I often make lists of strategies, things I want to write, etc. then go to that list when I have time.
I take the William Stafford approach, by waking up early in the morning and heading to PT's or the office to get some writing done. I also write to my friend Kevin Rabas, around three letters a week. He sends me letters too, so it is a terrific way to write, reflect, correspond.
I get most of my writing done during winter break, or during summer vacations. I know a lot of my writer friends do well in winter, too, as one gets isolated, turns inward. Also, there is something about getting away that helps with creativity. I wrote/compiled My Secret Wars of 1984 during a vacation in 2011, and it should be my first full-length book. I've had the most published from that.
I can't write when it is late. Instead, when I can't sleep, I watch Netflix. I am more poetic, more productive in the morning.
This semester, I wrote eight flash fiction pieces with my fiction writing class. I polished two. Now it will be the basis of my first novel. I think I can pull it off by writing flash fiction, around the overall story arc.
It's a strictly-randomly planned routine.
Friday, December 6, 2013
Kristin Prevallet Holidays Repost
From Kristin Prevallet!
Gifts
The Power of Exchange
Buying gifts during the holidays can be stressful -- but keep in mind that the real reason for giving gifts has nothing to do with the frenzied anxiety of shopping for something perfect. It has to do with an almost magical exchange.
With a little reflection, it's not hard to see that gifts are more alive and mystical than we realize. Like magic mushrooms, once we consume them we recognize that they were always there, spreading out through the fields and forests of our minds.
And as you picture that, perhaps you'll also see how gifts can be an extension of our physical biology and our material environment. Gifts are a reminder that through exchange and contact we learn to engage with other creatures -- much in the way that each organism in an ecosystem connects with every living thing around it.
When you are shopping for someone else you are projecting yourself into this generous exchange of living energy in which each organism knits itself into a complex fabric and pattern -- much in the way that the subatomic particles that compose us exist in relation to the space and particles that surround them.
Whatever it is that makes the act of giving gifts profound for you, remember that gifts are as much about you as they are about your recipients. You are never alone with the object you are giving: you're sharing a dynamic part of yourself, knowing that your life force will be reciprocated.
All my best for these holidays.
Kristin Prevallet
Writer, Teacher, Hypnotherapist
www.mindbodystudies.com
With a little reflection, it's not hard to see that gifts are more alive and mystical than we realize. Like magic mushrooms, once we consume them we recognize that they were always there, spreading out through the fields and forests of our minds.
And as you picture that, perhaps you'll also see how gifts can be an extension of our physical biology and our material environment. Gifts are a reminder that through exchange and contact we learn to engage with other creatures -- much in the way that each organism in an ecosystem connects with every living thing around it.
When you are shopping for someone else you are projecting yourself into this generous exchange of living energy in which each organism knits itself into a complex fabric and pattern -- much in the way that the subatomic particles that compose us exist in relation to the space and particles that surround them.
Whatever it is that makes the act of giving gifts profound for you, remember that gifts are as much about you as they are about your recipients. You are never alone with the object you are giving: you're sharing a dynamic part of yourself, knowing that your life force will be reciprocated.
All my best for these holidays.
Kristin Prevallet
Writer, Teacher, Hypnotherapist
www.mindbodystudies.com
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Skivies Reading
Last night was my official first reading of TSoTM. Sue Edgerton is an amazing force in creating community, hosting the open-mic with encouragement and care. As Lisa records, each reader can even request the recording of her of his reading. That makes it special, too!
The open-mic poetry starts at 7pm every first Tuesday of each month.
http://splash.topeka.net/bars/gay-and-lesbian/skivies-bar-grill
The open-mic poetry starts at 7pm every first Tuesday of each month.
http://splash.topeka.net/bars/gay-and-lesbian/skivies-bar-grill
Sum of Two Mothers Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
With
special thanks to the editors of the following literary magazines, in which Sum poems appeared:
Julia
Cohen and Bin Ramke
Denver Quarterly: “my mother
comes out,” “as one mother is a nurse”
Jennifer
A. Luebbers, Cate Lycurgus, and Deborah Kim
Indiana Review: “two women,”
“when neighbors,” “the new neighbor”
Geoffrey
Gatza
BlazeVOX: in
another form, “the
first grade teacher,” “the mother says,” “wait for Orion’s sword”
Kevin
Rabas
Flint Hills
Review:
“she was a mother before”
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