Posts tagged "Guest Blogger"
Post 3 From Guest Blogger Macgregor Card
I’m excited if you’re excited.
And I think you’re probably excited.
Are you excited?
I think I’m excited whether or not you’re excited.
And it’s embarrassing.
But it’s too late. We’re having a conversation.
I don’t know when all the talking picked up (late aughts?) but it’s only too visible now—I don’t think we’ve heard this much collaborative noise from poets [...]
Post 2 from Guest Blogger Macgregor Card
Want to hear a platitude? No. Okay, I settle in to blog and just want to apologize. And the apology’s just kind of an idle hiss. But with a lot of feeling. But the feeling is pure noise, and no steam.
Last week, sitting down with pages and pages of notes on Dana Ward, Alli Warren [...]
Post 1 from Guest Blogger Macgregor Card
Poetry Time at Space Space is a two-year old reading series curated by Ben Gocker and Lucy Ives. The venue is a loft space in Ridgewood, Queens, home to the series’ co-originator, Mairikke Dau. Last Saturday, Poetry Time hosted Bay area poets Brandon Brown and Alli Warren and Dana Ward of Cincinnati. While every reading [...]
Final Post from Guest Blogger Brenda Coultas
Blog 4, Final Report
March 24.
Last class before Spring break. The room is hot and smells like the french fries that a student is eating before class begins. Probably her dinner for the night and at least a thousand calories. (I’ve seen students dump about 6 packs of sugar into their coffee). I borrow a fan, [...]
Post 3 from Guest Blogger Brenda Coultas
Hated the Martin McDoughal play “A Behanding in Spokane.” Racist, I kept waiting for some point to be made. None was. An audience of white tourists laughing at the n-word.
Wish I’d waited till the reviews, esp. New Yorker one, were in before buying tickets but I wanted to see Christopher Walken on stage.
March 19
Eleni and [...]
Post 2 from Guest Blogger Brenda Coultas
March 6
(From Woodstock)
Bernadette and Phil are going to see The Crazies, a horror flick, in Hudson tonight. Last film we saw with them was Boogeyman in Catskill.
Bird songs, fresh mint crawling out from the snow.
Deer scat in back yard.
Going for a walk with Grace Murphy, that one, the one with all the 2nd generation NY [...]
Post 1 from March Guest Blogger – Brenda Coultas
A POET’S NOTEBOOK
March 3, 2010
I envision this as workspace: a place to build a form, to gaze, to know or to try things out.
Did you know there is a field of poetry therapists?
Picture of Sylvia Plath in the chapter on depression in an Introduction to Psychology textbook. Sometimes its a photo of Virginia Woolf, Great, [...]
Final Post from Guest Blogger Rachel Levitsky
Confinement as Commons
Probably all comparison is specious. At least wrong. There was feudalism and then there was capitalism. There were horse drawn carriages and then there were cars. For a while there were both and it was natural to compare them as ways of getting somewhere. Or the telephone as a way of communication soon [...]
Post no. 3 from Guest Blogger Rachel Levitsky
Notes on Thoughts on Confinement #3
Poetics of Speed
What is a blog and how do you do it? I had a plan and now find myself surprised to be without internet so I can’t get into facebook to check on my list of bleaker 70s movies and where is the Melanie lyric? But I was talking [...]
Guest Blogger is back – Rachel Levitsky, post no. 1
THE FIGURE WANDERS ON ALONE
In Progress: Thinking Notes on Writing and Confinement
Stacy asked me to do the February web log, the first one due today and I said yes, what might you like to see me log about? Stacy said, ‘your work teaching in prison.’ I can’t probably do that very directly but, since last [...]
