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Category Archives: personal
NaPoWriMo Day 24: Pure Narrative
Yeah, so I missed a few days. We bought a house. People buy houses all the time, and it seems like it must be an easy process because people do it all the time, but it’s not easy. It wasn’t … Continue reading
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Top 10 Novels
1. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) The Great American Novel was written by a Russian aristocratic expat, and one of its two main characters is a similar European expat– but then, most of us came here from elsewhere, and until recently, English wasn’t … Continue reading
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What the Heck is NaPoWriMo
NaPoWriMo Day 3: Ekphrasis
I wrote four partial poems today. Here’s one. It’s from a new “project” (I think of poems in terms of groups of them, usually chapbook-sized groups, rather than individual poems) of ekphrastic poems. When I was first thinking about Plasticity … Continue reading
NaPoWriMo Day 2: Collages
Here’s an example of a poem that still needs to be built. So far we have some birds, some Wordsworth, and a Mayan myth about where hummingbirds got their color. I should probably add more information about migration, because I … Continue reading
Transient Views of Western New York
Screen shots from Terry Cuddy’s film Transient Views of Western New York (2002) treating my chapbook bird-book (2001), now in this Flickr photo set.
The Next Big Thing
Thanks to my colleague Douglas Ray for tagging me to do the following interview; Douglas co-curates the Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series with me. I am answering the following questions for what I hope will be my second book; … Continue reading
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Feb. 13, 2013
There are only two ways: create the situation (and this is love) or avoid it. This also can be Love. – Charles Olson (With thanks to Alex Porco.)
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Aug. 6, 2010
He could not think another thing that evening simply a life had stepped in in place of theory (LZ, A-15)
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Ugly Duckling’s Digital Library
If you’re left without anything “good” to read now that Ron’s sophisticated and brilliant comment box conversation has been shut down, I’d suggest these four books from Leslie Scalapino. I came to Leslie’s work as an undergraduate at Buffalo, and … Continue reading
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Why I Use Twitter
I have multiple Twitter accounts and I use them for different purposes. When people whine that they don’t know why people use Twitter, I’m shocked at how little creativity goes into that statement. Why wouldn’t you use Twitter? There are … Continue reading
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Planned Obsolescence
An ongoing problem with getting Foursquare out for the past few months (besides it not being as high a priority for me as school, job, family, etc.) is that I’ve been waiting until I had enough disposable income ( = … Continue reading
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Elisa’s Atelier: Hermes Ambre Narguile
After trying the Accord Parfait Fourgère this morning, I found it so overwhelmingly smelly and unsubtle that I gave up and washed it off. (If anyone’s itching to try it, let me know. I think it’s a good guy scent.) … Continue reading
How To Seduce a Scorpio Woman
I was looking over some of the search terms that lead people to my post “How to Win (and Lose) a Scorpio Woman,” and I wanted to do a little Q&A session based on the search strings. I think the … Continue reading
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Elisa’s Atelier: A Straightforward Amber-Lavender
With the last, palest whiffs of the Hermes on my wrists, I decided to stay in a similar group and try Ambre & Lavande (Fougere) by Accord Parfait today. A very straightforward and “smelly” scent, it immediately smells like what … Continue reading
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Statistics
14,600,000 Unemployed * 3,200,000 Jobs Available 11,400,000 Unemployed if all available jobs were filled * 11,200,000 Combined urban populations of NYC and Chicago 14,500,000 Population of Mali 11,300,000 Population of Greece 8,600,000 People working PT who would prefer to work … Continue reading
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Elisa’s Atelier: Lavender’s Dirty Little Secret
Because the Caldey Island Lavender wore off so quickly, I was able to get up this morning and try a new perfume right away without showering (yes, it’s summer, but I have an AC and am unemployed so I don’t … Continue reading
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Elisa’s Atelier: Caldey Island Lavender
I received the Hermessence and Caldey samples today and decided to try out the Caldey Island Lavender, since my initial intention was to find a good blue lavender scent. I’m open to finding a replacement for Obsession, or at least … Continue reading
Elisa’s Atelier: MPG’s Ambre Précieux
I knew nothing about it, but I put a drop on my skin, breathed it in, and said, “Oh, my god” aloud, though I was alone in the room. I was intoxicated by it, possessed, consumed.* I received the first … Continue reading
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Elisa’s Atelier: : Lavender’s Blue
Checking into the Twitter hive this morning, I listened to Gillian talking to Elisa about cherry scents and mentioned that I have a fetish for lavender. All of my cleaning products are lavender: Seventh Generation‘s lavender and mint dish soap … Continue reading
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Protected: The readiness is all
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Protected: Goodbye, Coach Laughlin
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An evaluation of the last 10 months
I’ve finished my coursework for my Library Science degree (the MLS).
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Corresponding Juvenilia: 1993-1995
Poems from 8th and 9th grade– because I think it’s interesting to see how what one reads affects what one writes. During these Junior High years I liked Emily Dickinson, and I numbered my poems, feeling that if the title … Continue reading
My favorite poem in 9th grade
She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo She had some horses. She had horses who were bodies of sand. She had horses who were maps drawn of blood. She had horses who were skins of ocean water. She had horses … Continue reading
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My favorite poem in 8th grade
This Alice Notley poem, available in Grave of Light, was in our Scholastic reader in 8th grade and I identified strongly with it.
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My favorite poem in 7th Grade
My rebellion poem, from Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems. Via Bartleby. The Red Son I love your faces I saw the many years I drank your milk and filled my mouth With your home talk, slept in your house And was … Continue reading
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Protected: Health updates etc.
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A poem I wrote in 7th Grade
The Callow Heart Inside of anyone you see There is s heart of candle-wax and a slender string That is lighted by trivial fires of orange… So that when A heartbreaking incident Occurs The wick burns crimson and after a … Continue reading
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My favorite poem in 6th Grade
As far as I remember, this was my favorite poem in 6th grade. My grandfather bought me Minou Drouet’s First Poems at a library sale. (Thanks to this blogger for typing it up.) (Academics may cf. Barthes’ “Myth Today”) “Tree … Continue reading
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I am not here
There are too many things going on in real life (remember “real life”? the one where people have to do things like make money, have families and not write/make poetry all day?) for me to be here. I may be … Continue reading
Protected: Over-tested like a high school kid
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Protected: What’s Happening
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A successful failure
Yesterday afternoon I made a giant list of almost 300 contemporary female poets compiled from three lists I’d previously made. And I asked for more. By 11pm there were over 400. By midnight there were over 500. I woke up … Continue reading
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FOURSQUARE’s Last Issues
I’m wrapping up Foursquare, a project I started in 2006. As my obligations to other things expand and my desire to work on my own poetry grows, issues of 4SQ come out less frequently, such that the year of 2009 … Continue reading
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The Poem In Your Pocket
It’s Poem in Your Pocket Day! Halloween for poetry. Carry a poem in your pocket to give to someone like a valentine or trade with someone like a baseball card. Or just hoard poems in your own pocket. Bonus points … Continue reading
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Let Us Cultivate Our Garden
Only two more days to vote for the Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere. I voted the year that Amy King won (I voted for Amy) and I voted for rob mclennan last year, who came in second. This year the … Continue reading
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Protected: Health & Human Services
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Protected: Things that are not Real
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Notes from Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie was here. No one died. My notes, as they are, not cleaned up (except to be typed rather than handwritten): laughter & forgetting –> A novel of memory becomes a political novel literature to preserve the human scale… … Continue reading
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Protected: A Radical Life
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Protected: Paul
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Protected: Update
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Gender and Blogging Redux
As you may already know, there are a couple of discussions going on about gender and poetry following my original post, one at Mark Wallace’s blog and one at Harriet. There are a couple of things I want to say, … Continue reading
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Best Emergen-C Flavors
I drink a lot of Emergen-C, so I figured someone, somewhere in the world probably wants to know which flavors are best. Before I go into that, I first want to say that Emergen-C is way better than Airborne because … Continue reading
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Interview at Tarpaulin Sky
Julie Strand of Tarpaulin Sky recently conducted an interview with me about Foursquare for their blog.
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Women in Poetry (Again)
Since I am currently out of work, I am working on a few much-delayed issues of Foursquare and I am reminded that although Foursquare is not a unique project in the world of poetry magazines, it is still a sometimes … Continue reading
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Jessica Smith
