Rituals for Jess

 Jess, I hope you can get some downtime this weekend!

I wanted to share another writing ritual. This one involves using voice to text with a phone. I like to talk into Google docs to save my work.

In my car as fast as I could, I started saying whatever I saw, but used the words "in conjunction with" to stitch together my speaking. I also riffed off of what I was saying, naturally transitioning to another thing I saw or thought of.

I'll include the example below, but I was able to continue speaking as fast as I could for about 10 minutes and then I was exhausted.

But here's a sample of what came out. Maybe a way to think about this ritual for your own writing?

All Best,

Dennis

Oh I forgot to add, think of this not as writing a poem but generating words that will eventually become a poem. That you can print this out and use a highlighter to look for different word connections and then create a poem out of that.

Stillness being able to know and determine by listening to the heart and conjunction with the heart itself in conjunction with what the heart wants to tell us in conjunction with everything that the Dairy Queen has for treats and conjunction with going to the Dairy Queen as in walking down to the Dairy Queen to get yourself a treat and conjunction with what the actual ice cream is that you're eating that is milk in conjunction with whatever is bad and whatever you're eating in conjunction with the happy memory and conjunction with whatever isn't good in conjunction with lemonade sedans sold by children trying to get some money in conjunction with the actual lemonade made in conjunction with how children make lemonade with their hands in conjunction with if it's a mix or with actual lemons in conjunction with what children's understand about mass produced lemonade on the grocery store

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Re: Poetry Journal

DJ

Dennis Etzel Jr

To:

Jess Seidel

Sat 8/26/2023 8:16 AM

Jess,

Thank you so much for reaching out! Yes, I would love to share many of these rituals I have developed as well as carry forward after my time at Naropa.

I will start the conversation on Monday!

For this weekend, if you can find a place to sit outside and write as fast as you can for five minutes with these two anchoring words—AUGUST and WAVE. You can write these words down when you get stuck and keep going.

Also, when you get stuck, smell coffee beans.

Another project: Take a poem you love, think of a place you love, think of an experience you had in that place, then start writing. When stuck, grab a word from the poem (I start from the bottom up), write it down, and keep writing. Keep borrowing whatever word you find. I call this a write-through.

packets

 packet1 105 in Topeka, first two crisis trees, first two ritual

packet 2   ritual up to file 6

Reflection questions

 What is your calling? Even if you can't answer this question, does it feel like you're on some kind of path?

How are you able to do now what you are meant to do? In other words are you doing what you're calling is asking?

How are you open to other people? And how are they open to you?

What are the interferences that are getting in the way of your calling? Are the systems you're working in creating the actual interferences of what is supposed to be your calling?

Naropa Summer Writing Program

 I will soon be there and will post here about it!

Naropa SWP 2023

 

for a stranger poetics :: trans-disciplinary practices

Workshops are M/T/Th/F from 9:30am-12:00pm, 9:00am for Printshop.

Monday, 6/12
1:00–2:30 Opening Panel: For a Stranger Poetics: Transdisciplinary Practices
Panelists: Anne Waldman (chair); Srikanth Reddy; Carolina Ebeid; Janice Lowe; No Land

3:00–4:00 :: MFA Lecture :: Kelly Krumrie

Tuesday, 3/13
1:00–2:00 :: Lecture :: Cedar Sigo

2:30–3:30 :: Oral History :: Kyle Schlesinger on Cuneiform Press

4:00–5:00 :: Lecture :: Amy Catanzano

7:00–9:30 :: Faculty Reading:
Kelly Krumrie; No Land; Amy Catanzano; Cedar Sigo

Wednesday, 6/14
1:00–3:00 :: Afro-futurism ::  Ramon Gabrieloff-Parish 

Thursday, 6/15
1:00–2:00 :: Artist Talk :: Julie Carr

2:30–3:30 :: Artist Talk :: Caroline Bergvall

4:00–5:30 :: Student Panel

7:00–9:30 :: Faculty Reading:
Lee Ann Brown, Kyle Schlesinger; Carolina Ebeid; Srikanth Reddy

Friday, 6/16
1:00–2:30 :: Artist Talk & Performance :: Lee Ann Brown & Tony Torn :: Poets Theatre Lab

3:00–4:30 :: Colloquium

7:00–9:30 :: Student Reading

Saturday, 6/17
7:00–9:30 :: Faculty Reading:
Mairead Case; Janice Lowe; Julie Carr: Caroline Bergvall

 

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(eco) mourning / memory / ritual

Workshops are M/T/Th/F from 

9:30am-12:00pm, 9:00am start for Printshop.

Monday, 6/19

9:30am-12:00pm workshop

1:00–2:30 Opening Panel: (eco) mourning / memory / ritual

Panelists: Anne Waldman (chair): Gabriel Octavia Rucker; CAConrad; Sherwin Bitsui

3:00–4:00 :: MFA Lecture :: Richard Froude

Tuesday, 6/20

9:30am-12:00pm workshop

1:00–2:00 :: Artist Talk :: Ariana Reines

2:30–3:30 :: Artist Talk :: April Sheridan

7:00–9:30 :: Faculty Reading:
TBA, TBA Gabriel Octavia Rucker; Dan Beachy-Quick

Wednesday, 6/21

1:00–3:00 :: Divinatory Poetics :: Saterstrom 

Thursday, 6/22
9:30am-12:00pm workshop

1:00–2:30 :: Artist Talk :: Dan Beachy-Quick

3:00–4:30 :: Student Panel

7:00–9:30 :: Faculty Reading:
TBA, TBA, Sherwin Bitsui; CAConrad

Friday, 6/23
9:30am-12:00pm workshop

1:00–2:30 :: Lecture :: Margaret Randall

3:00–4:00 :: Colloquium 7:00–9:30 :: Student Reading

Saturday, 6/24
7:00–9:30 :: Faculty Reading:
Richard Froude; Stella Corso; Margaret Randall; Ariana Reines

 

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counter-urgency :: writing / performance / social practice

Workshops take place M/T/Th/F from 9:30am-12:00pm, 9:00am for Printshop

 

Monday, 6/26

9:30am-12:00pm workshop

1:00–2:30 Opening Panel: counter-urgency :: writing / performance / social practice Panelists: Anne Waldman (chair); Layli Long Soldier; Thurston Moore; Sandra Simonds; Tongo Eisen-Martin

3:00–4:00 :: MFA Lecture :: Stella Corso

Tuesday, 6/27
9:30am-12:00pm workshop

1:00–2:30 :: Lecture :: Vincent Katz :: “At First Sight”

3:00–4:00 :: Artist Talk :: Ronaldo Wilson

7:00–9:30 :: Faculty Reading:
TBA, Vincent Katz; Sandra Simonds; Edwin Torres

Wednesday, 6/28
1:00–3:00 :: Dharma Arts :: Giovannina Jobson

7:00–9:30 :: SWP Staff Reading

Thursday, 6/29
9:30am-12:00pm workshop

1:00–2:00 :: Artist Talk :: Anne Waldman :: “Bard, Kinetic”

3:00–4:30 :: Student Panel

7:00–9:30 :: Faculty Reading:
Amy Bobeda; Valerie Hsiung; Layli Long Soldier; Tongo Eisen-Martin

Friday, 6/30
9:30am-12:00pm workshop

1:00–2:30 :: Artist Talk :: Edwin Torres

3:00–4:00 :: Colloquium 

7:00–9:30 :: Student Reading

Saturday, 7/1
7:00–9:30 :: Faculty Reading:
Jeffrey Pethybridge; Ronaldo Wilson; Thurston Moore; Anne Waldman and Fast Speaking Music

 

 

Possible workshops

 

Poetry where we work: Using Fast-Food Sonnets (Kansas Notable Award Winner), Dennis discusses how we can use our experiences with work--if it’s the teenage years of mowing lawns or babysitting to the work we’ve done as adults—to create our own poems and flash memoirs.

 

·        Poetry writing as inquiry

·        Documentary poetics

·        Psychology of poetics

·        Advice for publishing, from an editor and writer

·        Kansas poetry and workshop

·        At the movies writing, film therapy meets writing 

·        Contemporary mythology how we can rewrite ourselves through mythology 

·        Ecopoetry: How we our home as environment, reconnect through nature as well as through writing

 

2023 Cavalier Conference

 

Schedule

Continental Breakfast: 8:00-8:30 a.m.

Welcome: 8:30-8:50 a.m.

Mickey McCloud, JCCC Provost

Miguel Morales, Poet

 

Session I: 9:00-10:00 a.m.

 

RC 175

Nicolas Ceballos Guzman

 

My Verse & My Identity: Overcoming The Effects of Identity Imposition with Two YA Verse Novels

 

Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle and The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo are two pieces of literary justice that English teachers should implement. Both books provide a critical interpretation of the initiation, maturation, and education of young adults. This presentation reviews the books’ lessons and suggests a method to teach both pieces.

 

Chani Perret

 

Getting your students to do Independent Reading without a fight

 

Want to implement Independent Reading in your classroom? This session will come with tricks and tips for making independent reading successful and showing students that they are all readers.

Huascar Medina

Acknowledging the Presence of Kansas Poetry

 

The power of Kansas poets writing today has been undermined by only teaching about poets outside of Kansas. In doing so, we have alienated students and undercut the immediacy of Poetry that easily prevails in authentic spaces. Representation matters for all Kansans.

 

Session II: 10:10-11:10 a.m.

 

  RC 101B Session 2D

Session Chair: Marianne Kunkel, 

Johnson County Community College

Accessing Culturally Responsible Rhetorical Education

Adam Banks, Stanford University 

Learn planning and implementation for an undergraduate “Notation 

in Cultural Rhetorics” including notes on the design of the notation’s 

gateway course.

How Transferable Are Writing Skills Between Disciplines?: 

A Writing Audit of UMKC’s Required Undergraduate 

Classes

Molly Doroba, University of Missouri-Kansas City

This presentation will discuss the results of a writing audit used 

to rhetorically analyze writing assignment prompts in required 

undergraduate courses across different disciplines at the University 

of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) to determine the similarities and 

differences in rhetorical skills needed, genres required and

 

Coffee Break

 

Session III: 11:30-12:30 p.m.

 

 

RC 181

Muffy Walter

Whose Freedom of Speech?

This presentation shares how a First-Year Writing class focused on freedom of speech and linguistic justice transformed students' concepts of language and human rights through assignments and class discussions, which encouraged students to question who has the right to free speech if only Standard American English is "right."

 

Claire Smith

A Little Machiavellian": Rhetorical Strategies that Allow Women Access into Conversations in the Classroom

What does it say that we teach Machiavellian rhetorical strategies in the classroom, but vilify women, like Taylor Swift, when they use them in the public sphere?

 

Lunch and Keynote: 12:40-2:10 p.m.

Hare and Bell Awards Kara Kynion

Welcome by Larry Reynolds

Keynote April Baker Bell

 

Closing Remarks: 2:10-2:30 p.m.