Links, Thinks

I have a resources page where I share stuff. Just added is a checklist for what to bring when you table at a book fair. There are also tips for authors photos, how to run a reading series, templates for chapbooks, a spreadsheet template for logging your reading.

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In the further framing commercial scarcity model vs. abundance model, people who share haiku online, knowing it will make those poems ineligible for contests and magazines, win my admiration. Like, Charlotte. What does hoarding a poem until a reward with publication do? A publication is laminating a marginalia jotting on a newspaper clipping. Poems if shared are broadcast, exchanged, but pinning to a submission window of small paywalled patrons limits the ideas, corrals them when they could be free to bounce against other ideas.

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From Peer Gynt “We are songs;/You should have sung us! /Thousands of times/You have stifled us./We have been waiting/Under your heart,/But were never sent for./Death to your voice!” Peer: And death to you, you ludicrous jingle! What time did I have for versifying”

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Movies, shows, writing with hooks all can exacerbate the priority of crisis, the one inevitable outcome, awfulized emoting instead of creative various directions of solutions and de-escalations. Like anything so long as we remember it is silliness and play but we train the brain by every act, yes? Filtering in a reductionist way is funny unless you believe it’s getting at the underlying binary real vs. lie.

an emotion
is a thought the body has—
branch broken by wind

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Being present isn’t monitoring reaction/reactivity, body but unsticking, and seeing inward and outward, not judging, assessing, but seeing. As in how to survive.

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Not poetry but flipping perspective of defaults for cars.

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“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most” said a meme, echoing Dolly Parton in interview once, saying something like, a want is just a wish if you don’t back it up with action.