Thursday, June 17, 2004
Actually, while I haven't been writing much, I've been reading a lot. I love chapbooks. They're an easily digestible amount of poetry. A full length collection all by one person can be a bit much for me, but a chap can be read on the train, and then read over, and over, with each reading not taking up too much time. This lets me read multiple times without getting freaked out by the sheer volume of the material, and as a result, I can enjoy new angles to each poem as I read them over. Yay, chapbooks!
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I wish I could write a poem, but my brain feels like it's filled with kleenex. Not
that I have a cold but just soft and dense matter clogging up my skull and getting in the way of my usually snappy synapses.
Hey, if you were me, where would you submit a poem?
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Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Oh, and I almost forgot! I've got to send out submissions, too. I'm submitting to The Formalist and Raintown Review. Go, little rhymy poems, go!
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This Friday I wing my way down to Virginia for a week or so of vacation. I have some poetry projects to work on during that time...
* Finish choosing and arranging poems for Calamity and The Calamity Annex.
* Pull together some drafts into actual poems and revise some of the poems from Vocative.
* Start the process of writing, in earnest, Mandamus.
* Read background material on evolution for Aileron.
Is that a lot? I don't really think so, as Number 1 is almost complete anyway. I'm going to give my afternoons to poetry...I'm looking forward to getting up, going jogging, eating some cereal, playing video games all morning, eating lunch, and then strolling down to Twisted Branch on the Downtown Mall to drink chai milkshakes and write poems. Yay!
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Karaoke + Poetry = Fun! was indeed fun. I sang the Ghostbusters theme, which people said they heartily appreciated, which probably means that I was so mind-bendingly awful that the listening experience was comparable to heavy drug use. I read a poem to other people for, like, the first time in four years. Go, reading a poem! Other highlights of the evening included Shappy the Bartender's Elvis impersonation, Dan Nester and Chris Connolly doing "Private Eyes" (complete with handclaps), a very moving and impassioned "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and Shafer Hall's version of Alanis Morrisette's "You Oughta Know." I could not stop laughing when the screen behind him filled up with the lyrics "Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah."
Dan Nester has photos!
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Monday, June 14, 2004
Again, I'll be competing in the Bowery Poetry Club's Poetry Game Show tonight at 5:45. It's free. Come heckle! (Or don't...being on stage in front of a bunch of people is likely to bring me close to fainting, throwing up, or having a psychotic break). Guess what? I've been studying! Because I am a terrible, terrible nerd.
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Four poems up at
canwehaveourballback? Poems 1,3, and 4 are Calamities, and Poem 2 is a silly and exuberant love poem, sort of. I stole its title and referring line from
Joshua Corey, so that part's good at least.
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Went to the Housing Works/CLMP journal sale yesterday and brought away as many journals as I could reasonably carry, including
The Canary
Columbia
eye-rhyme
Fence
Hanging Loose
Jubilat
Open City
Salt Hill
Spinning Jenny
Spoon River Poetry Review
3rd Bed
Mmmm....journally.
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