Get playful with your work. Do not be confined by language today. Use your eyes, use your sense of balance, use your frame of vision. Consider the word space. Consider the word ration.
brought together, we may finally see that water is both the medium and the message.
Word Your Own Poem Prompt: Take it down to the letter-level. *Boggle Appeal: The ability of a word or words to be rearranged into new words.
Experimental Poetry allows your writerly ego, go-to-themes & stories, and brain to take the day off. Otherwise, why would anyone write a poem called MYSTERY TO THE MAN?
a surprisingly unfettering process: the limitations of the medium and the attempt at being something of a medium for the experimental voice.
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 →
I am once again defeated by anger and sorrow at the ever-growing list of murdered black men.
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 →
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 →
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