all,due to cataclysm! and disrepair! and just needing to move along, you can now find me, most of the old stuff, and a whole lot of new stuff over at http://www.ohbara.com/weblog. Please update your ...
Well, were more than halfway now, so thank you if youre still hanging on and doing this daily practice. Its no easy thing, thats for sure.A thought on critique: For serious writers, when looking at a...
The series. What is it, how does it function? By series I mean both poems in parts and series of separate poems that function together. The series can be a way for a poet struggling to relate things ...
Writing exercise: Take 10 of your poems you feel closest to or most affectionate about. Go through them and list the nouns, verbs, and adjectives/adverbs you use. This is your lexicon. Compose a new ...
Writing exercise: Write a poem without the word I, without the word he, without the word she.Check out the slender, lovely slip of a poem that is Rae Armantrouts "Second Person".How about thi...
Check out these words about Michael Dickmans book, The End of the West. Two very different reviews in two quite different outlets, and the second one is not entirely kind (which is fine--reviews aren...
Tragedy, beauty, and absurdity in the newspapers (and everywhere). For example.Writing exercise: Find a newspaper story that interests you and write from it. Don't feel bound to a reportage-style rec...
"I am not proceeding by linear deduction, but rather by concentric circles, moving sometimes toward the outer and sometimes toward the inner ones.... Rather than founding a theory--and perhaps before...
I'm reading Sharp Stars by Sharon Bryan right now. I like it for its play, especially its wordplay. I like its sense of space. I like how trim the poems feel. They feel so crafted. Not impetuous, tho...
Writing exercise: What is the particular geography of the place you love? What are its most intimate, actual, physical, material details?This time, play with the physical largeness of the poem. Make ...
Writing exercise: imagine you've come home and someone has moved all your furniture.A beautiful poem: "Sweet Habit of the Blood" by Sarah Gridley in Cerise Press 1.3. --All work here © 2010 and onwar...
A poem can be just a moment. It doesn't have to tell a grandiose story, or travel vast distances. Mostly the things close to home, the physical things we know and can touch, are what will touch other...
What is a writing exercise?A writing exercise is a suggestion from outside the writer for a direction, image, form, or prompt for writing. It is not rule-bound. It is not prescriptive. In the best of...
April is National Poetry Month in the U.S. Beginning April 1, there'll be something here every weekday. I'd love to see if you join in--leave responses to writing exercises in the comments (or a link...
The quest for the perfect mug wasn't something I thought about before I came to England, but then a very neurotic Englishman, an acquired habit of tea-consumption, and time enough to start collecting...
Some poems have been taken by This Joy+Ride, and you can see them there from today (March 15th) til the end of the month. Thanks, Shari and Sheri, for picking me.
Girl of the future, I'm sending you a crown airmail...If you are waiting for an email about your public transit tickets and your cameras, please wait a little more--it's coming. I've been working on ...
(Bernard Moninot, Dessin sur soie n° 2 [sans titre], acrylic, graphite, and silver thread on canvas. Dole Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, Dole, France, April 2007)Right from the start this contradicti...
From Butte Montmartre. One of my favorite places because you can sit and watch all the people getting to the top, completely tied from all the steps, and then see them turn around and see Paris like ...
Wow, it's been a long time since I wrote about Derrida. Well, let's change that. I'm re-reading The Postcard for the chapter I'm writing right now and it makes me remember exactly why I love Derrida....
Playing with pieces of old prints in order to get ready for the class I'm teaching at LPW next weekend, I made this, which is pleasing on lots of levels.
A public service announcement: how wonderful it is to have someone in your life who supports you and makes space for you and wants to find out about what you love, and resists you when resistance is ...
It's the last sentence of this article* that I think speaks most to me--about how our 'training' as thinkers, makers, and academics has to be flexible, and not only nominally so. It's time for a re-v...
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One thing I love about the small scale of the UK is that these landscapes are just a couple of hours from me by bus. I'd like to go back to the Peaks alone and stay somewhere for a week. Seems like a...
In about two weeks, the ftp service I use through Blogger is going to end, and I'm not sure what will happen to this space, or to the posts I've made here for the last three years, at that point. I'm...
In the interim, I have taught a lot of classes where I got to talk about surrealism, feminism, poetry, the semi-colon (also known as the king of punctuation marks), why women in the 18th century used...
Ideal playlist for singing (links to videos):1. Quelqu'un m'a dit, by Carla Bruni.2. Gatekeeper, by Feist.3. Ta p'tite flamme, by Amélie-les-Crayons.4. La noyée, by Serge Gainsbourg.5. Casimir Pulask...
Guess who'll be in the shop today? Meet Kaatje, Loetkin, Maartje, Elleke, Geraard, and Lien.They're all made of cashmere and backed with the same fabric as their legs, with hand-embroidered faces and...
After several weeks of grey it was finally bright this weekend. On Friday I taught in Leicester, then took a walk and went to the printshop. Beeston was also bright in the sun.St. Verde.Angela Liguor...
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