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
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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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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.
Day #3
Funeral for Home Watercolor paper stacked rough as old hands-- heater grates open to a desert. Florence Boulevard smolders in inch-deep volcano ash-- thick merlot carpet petrifies like bone. A ghost kicks dirt in the basement. Long hairs drizzle the bathtub. Hornets lull the dead, fruit drops and worms feast.
Poems By James Baldwin
Happy #NaPoWriMo everyone. I'll be posting some of my dailies here. In the meantime, here are three gems from James Baldwin's NEW poetry collection. "I Don’t Feel Death Coming / I Feel Death Going": 3 Poems By James Baldwin.
5 Words to NEVER Use in Poetry
Another in the JBAC series--this time, gearing up for NaPoWriMo. I'm still considering if I will participate, but I'm leaning yes. I need something to rev my poetry into high gear, and last time I participated (in 2012), I ended up with half of my creative writing thesis. There are many things worthy of a… Continue reading 5 Words to NEVER Use in Poetry
Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie My rating: 5 of 5 stars Yowza. This novel is electric. Narrator Kambili is at once intuitive, observant, and silenced, leaving the reader with sparse, sensory descriptions that defy time. The language shifts with Kambili's awakening to a world larger than Mass, prayer, and obedience, revealing a level of… Continue reading Hibiscus
Hipster Lit
Another from the series of Juniper Bends Author Collective posts--this time, I reflect on millenial literature and reveal my inner grandma. Yesterday, after getting off of work to a rainy afternoon, I sat in my blue reading chair and polished off the entirety of Tao Lin's Shoplifting from American Apparel. I was left with a sole… Continue reading Hipster Lit
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There are vegan popcorn crumbs all over my couch, I spent yesterday recovering from recovering, and I still think most writers are silly, apolitical plebes. All in all, a great AWP weekend.
Jesse Rice-Evans 