a surprisingly unfettering process: the limitations of the medium and the attempt at being something of a medium for the experimental voice.
Dig into your poet's toolbox: repetition, metaphor, personification, alliteration, and meter are your friends.
This past week I've been doing a lot of work on my poetry thesis: organizing it into three possible orders and working out themes and sections and all that. Each time I'd figure out one potential way into the manuscript,... Continue Reading →
Today an image heavy post, with a sparse poem to accompany. In this case, I worked on the poem first, and then finished the image. Sometimes, certain words just pop out. In my case, it was "take care." Also, never... Continue Reading →
This week is all about the process, because making this page required more effort than any other page so far. I am going to actually give you a step-by-step for this, so you really can follow along if you like.... Continue Reading →
I think we could all use a refresher on what we are fighting for these days, in whose footsteps we follow, and whose footsteps certain factions would like to erase.
(don't) Bend and Break in Silence What you need to know about today Not justified. And I drove to the grocery store, the store I visit weekly, past the place where the flags and lights and tributes are still set... Continue Reading →
PROMPT: Flip through a magazine until you find a smallish article where a phrase is repeated a few times (ex: good mothers).
I am once again defeated by anger and sorrow at the ever-growing list of murdered black men.
Prompt: Hearts are somewhat inane. Embrace* or subvert* the heart in all its cliché absurdity.
Magazines are always filled with letters to the editor. In them, you will find some of the very best language. Seems a shame to waste all those Dears. In this case, the answer (above) was written first and then the... Continue Reading →
On the left hand page, we have image. On the right, words. This quote and last post's image come from an article in Artforum titled, TALKING ABSTRACT. What better excuse to delve into line and language? PROMPT 1. Begin with... Continue Reading →
We all need a little recess from time to time. For me, that time was today. Today's post and next Wednesday's are both intermissions from the current project and both are translations. Abstraction and Experimentation both ask us to find... Continue Reading →
Forewarn: Physically uncomfortable as I began this post, I finally removed the snorkel and umbrella from the chair I have been sitting on too long. Which is to say, my youngest son is coughing on the sofa where he has... Continue Reading →
Sometimes your art will live in a safe and insular world and sometimes that world will have to open up and acknowledge the outside world too. This past week has been grief filled. I have often written, in essay or... Continue Reading →
Let's show a bit of formatting today. Here is the excerpt of today's poem, like I would typically post: and here is the full page, with words blurred out: Prompt: This poem came entirely from the title. It is really... Continue Reading →
I admit that I adore this poem. Mostly because the finished product reminds me of a John Hughes movie. It is such a misfit, just like he was. I kind of want to write a million poems about young fair... Continue Reading →
This is where we begin to see the fish king take a real shape. This king is a she, naturally, as she was originally a boat. Let's talk about the way these pages are set up. There is some variation... Continue Reading →
This "poem" relies on a list of tools to find itself... as it should. At first, this seemed impossible. But as I stared at it and wondered why it insisted on being so boring, words began to appear that I... Continue Reading →
For the first poem in the series of "Another affair with Water," a more language based piece. I counted the steps (originally step-by-step instructions for building a King-Fisher) and ... there are 29. I admit, this is overwhelming. I will... Continue Reading →
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