So I wrote a poem. It doesn’t matter what. It was 62 words long. It was terse and seemed to have the energy of sitting on a nerve. I tweeted that “it’s one thing to use poetry as therapy. it’s another to not stop there & keep yourself impaired, rhinestoned in words & applause.” I […]
Category archives: Poetics
A Poetry Looking at Its Torso
At The Boston Review there’s The Poetesses: An Interview with Lisa Russ Spaar, Aracelis Girmay, and Daisy Fried by B.K. Fischer It raises a lot of interesting things to consider, partly ruminating on the significance of VIDA numbers. Here are bits I found interesting. B.K. Fischer ask to reframe the dialogue at the start of […]
Scrabble Poems Process
Sometimes I explain making scrabble poems but a demonstration is clearer than words. Following the lines of where the word touch so that the board forces the connections instead of cherry picking and flying off with the ideas too fast can make a more unusual construction. For example, starting in the top right corner there’s […]
Best Thought
Among responses to John Cage Zac Pennington “I stumbled into Cage first in confusion and misunderstanding, and then in rock books that stated his monolithic influence, all well before I’d ever actually heard any of his work. And when I finally did, I hated it– a distinction Cage shares with just about anything that’s ever […]
Integrity
John Maeda said, As we both have an arts background, the word “integrity” has special meaning. She said resolutely, “Integrity equals consistency.” Ah, interesting odd tidbit. Internal consistency is my nemesis. Consistency, aka “voice” – those subjects, attitudes, moods, syntax, lineations, cleverness ratio, densities, language register – which some aspire to, to make it seem […]