Let me just say this

I'm pumped up for the class that comes in a year from now. Really excited, as I go through books and get inspiration from colleagues.

Yep--colleagues. MW:

Middle French collegue, from Latin collega, from com- + legare to depute — more at legate

First Known Use: circa 1533

Origin of COLLEGE

Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin collegium society, from collega colleague — more at colleague

First Known Use: 14th century

I work at a college with colleagues.

my own hybrid writing

If I were thinking of a project with this form, I'd combine:

My mothers
Phelps
and some kind of myth

any suggestions? or research ideas? historical references in Topeka?

Hybrid Forms Writing

Great news! I've been given the okay to teach a Hybrid Forms Writing class. Call it hybrid, Docu-Poetry, whatever--it blends and blurs the lines. Thanks to Susan M. Schultz and Joe Harrington for suggestions, as they are teaching such classes this semester or next. Mine will be next fall.

Here are books I'm contemplating (with suggestion sources in parentheses):

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine

Things Come On by Joseph Harrington

Povel by Geraldine Kim

Human Resources by Rachel Zolf

Anything published by Essay Press or DIAGRAM

1913: a journal of forms lit mag

Home / Birth : a poemic by Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker

An Apparent Event: A Second Story Books Anthology by Ed. Mary Burger (Joe Harrington suggested)

The Next American Essay by Ed. John D'Agata (Joe Harrington suggested)

The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley

From Unincorporated Territory [Saina] by Craig Santos Perez (Susan M. Schultz suggested)

Shut Up Shut Down by Mark Nowak (Susan M. Schultz suggested)

Zong! by Marlene Nourbese Philip

Green-Wood (Heretical Texts) by Allison Cobb (Susan M. Schultz suggested)

A Handmade Museum by Brenda Coultas

If you have other suggestions, please email me at dennis [dot] etzel [at]    washburn [dot]  edu

Thanks!

 

Almost all are sent

I've almost sent all the poems to My Secret Wars of 1984. Flint Hills Review is the first to respond, publishing two of them. Thank you, Kevin Rabas!

Link to FHR.

Something to Marvel

Today, I heard from Marvel Comics and have permission to use quotes for my MSS. It's a relief. If I don't hear back from the last two individuals, it's Plan B--omission within sentences.

I've learned that sending physical letters can pay off as much as email. I just want to thank Marvel and Wizards of the Coast for their generosity, as they could have simply said "no."

Lead is soft and toxic.

We must work as alchemists.

Description

Secret Wars of 1984 is a 366-sentence poetry-memoir collage, using texts from the year 1984, as well as sentences of my own. So far, I have permissions from three of the six--waiting to hear back from the other three.