So I think I'm writing an essay--or a series of essays--but I keep calling it a collection of prose poems. At what point to I have to admit to myself that I might just be writing prose? Prose terrifies me. Can't I just cling like a sloth to my poet moniker forever? Does this contradict my… Continue reading Piece
Author: Jesse Rice-Evans
Tired and hydrated disabled lesbian, Educational Technologist, and digital humanist into medical rhetorics, Pokémon, harm reduction, and mutual aid
Service
The American service industry rightfully gets a lot of grief: low pay, discrimination galore, and physical labor without any of the prestige found in other nations. However, for writers and other artists, service industry work can be something of a godsend. Not only are the schedules much more forgiving and even flexible (other workers can often… Continue reading Service
Franny Choi
This poem rips and tears. A must-read. To the Man Who Shouted “I Like Pork Fried Rice” at Me on the Street by Franny Choi : Poetry Magazine. Glad Poetry magazine is printing some interesting work. I cancelled my subscription last year because everything they printed was garbage.
Scoop
So too bad I'm not ambidextrous because my scooping hand is the same as my writing hand and yowza I'm going to need to build up some tougher tendons for 8 hours of continuous scooping. In the meantime, I'll start typing my journal I guess.
bell
Just devoured bell hooks's memoir Wounds of Passion. Every once in a while, I need a jolt of poet energy to remind me why I've never been able to give up stanza breaks. The relationship between work and the rest of writers' lives in difficult to embody, and more difficult to elucidate. hooks presents these relationships… Continue reading bell
Day #12
Inheritance after Cassandra de Alba Slivers of soap marking years like tree rings fused into a pillar; a collection of clown figurines glowering over the duct-taped couch; glass, marble, and plastic eggs embossed with Florida and Eloise; jars caked in ancient dust, a coffee can rattling baby teeth, yellowed newspapers barking the end of the… Continue reading Day #12
NaPoWriMo Update
So I've been writing a lot, but most pieces I've been working on are intensely personal. I have elected to leave them off of the internet. Something I'm doing differently this NaPo around is reading actual books of poetry to supplement my own writing. Matthew Olzmann's Mezzanines, Kristen Stone's Domestication Handbook, and Natasha Trethewey's everything have really… Continue reading NaPoWriMo Update
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List
I've been busy at my new job making tons of tip money and getting soaked in ice cream (yuck), but I've had several ideas that I will share here: Don't trust people who still act like spoiled children into adulthood. Ain't nobody got time. Buy your friend coffee or a movie ticket and don't write… Continue reading List
Chick Lit Vs. Lit Chicks
Now what kind of a dim-wit sexist illiterate moron do you have to be not to be able to read these books for what they are? --Jeanette Winterson Chick Lit Vs. Lit Chicks - Great Books Written By Women - ELLE.
Jesse Rice-Evans 