Here is a little interview/essay I wrote for Rescue Press, my publisher. The prompt was to write about a book that changed you, that you love. Right now I am loving the book Last Child in the Woods, which is making me pine ever more strongly for our own small acre somewhere. Everything I read lately [...]
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Safety Book
Posted in thing witnessed, writing, tagged event, literature, new orleans, strangeness on February 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Two new poems
Posted in writing, tagged language on February 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
New poem
Posted in writing, tagged language, literature on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
it’s long and unruly yet, splattered with text from this amazing book, geographies of new orleans.
Poems
Posted in writing, tagged language on October 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A poetry reading
Posted in writing, tagged Andy, conversation, event, language, literature on October 10, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Last night I read with Zach and Andy at a small gathering at a friend’s house. There were maybe 20 people there, most of whom we didn’t know. Although Zach is one of my oldest friends, and all three of us have been writing together and collaborating and sharing work for many years, this was [...]
Poems
Posted in writing, tagged language on May 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Rewriting
Posted in writing, tagged language on April 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Drafting a poem
Posted in writing, tagged language on March 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
feels heroic.
Self-education Programme prep
Posted in writing, tagged ideas on February 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I did some writing while thinking about what I wanted to do for my program. Dear John, who gave me the idea, is single and lives alone and I knew I couldn’t do exactly what he does. I knew it would have to be somehow lighter, more flexible. So I made this list to help [...]
Writing
Posted in writing, tagged anticipation, ideas, language on February 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Last week I devoted a full work day to writing for the first time in many months. I’ve really been trying to condense the amount of files and paper clutter I have, but sometimes it’s all very confusing to me. I have so many notes, so many drafts, hard copies as well as computer folders. [...]