OMG Trong Gia Nguyen at the Library as Incubator Project
For the past seven years I’ve been writing literary works word for word on rice kernels, encased in little mylar packets imprinted with old library card-cataloging information. The original idea was to write all of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” word for word on grains of rice, to be housed in a giant hourglass.
Author copies arrived! With valentine-red end papers under feather-white cover. Thanks rob! (at glen iris)
mnemotechnics
A selection of poems from my manuscript mnemotechnics is available as a chapbook from above/ground…
Curation, not Competition: Pinterest and Poetry
For those of you who haven’t ever used it, Pinterest is a link storage site (similar to delicious) that organizes bookmarks with pictures; it’s also similar to Tumblr in that you can like and share links.* Users make “boards” and then upload, link, or…
NaPoWriMo Day 27: Shorts
We’re packing and cleaning this weekend to get ready to move for May 1. As you can probably tell, I ran out of NaPoWriMo steam mid-month when we finalized the house purchase. This poem is for the spiders we’ve uprooted:
Spider Poem with Exclamation Mark
T…
NaPoWriMo Day 26: Child-Poem
My 2.5 year old son dictated this poem to me, including the placement and sizes of the words. I…
Recent novels
A few contemporary novels I’ve read recently that I liked, with rough descriptions.1. The Sense…
NaPoWriMo Day 24: Pure Narrative
Yeah, so I missed a few days. We bought a house. People buy houses all the time, and it seems like it must be an easy process because people do it all the time, but it’s not easy. It wasn’t easy for us. Sometimes you have to write bad poetry to crank up…
Top 10 Novels
Top 10 Novels
1. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
The Great American Novel was written by a Russian aristocratic expat, and one of its two main characters is a similar European expat– but then, most of us came here from elsewhere, and until recently, English wasn’t the first…
NaPoWriMo Days 10, 13-15: Layers
This weekend, we went to Atlanta for Nick’s 30th birthday (which was last week); his gift was tickets to both They Might Be Giants shows at Variety Playhouse. Before we left, we went to the Birmingham Museum of Art to see the hippos. In Atlanta, we went…
Pigeon interlude
Ash Smith, Sarah Campbell, Pattie McCarthy and I have been responding on Facebook to a post from…
NaPoWriMo Day 12: Politics
This poems follows the “x is a y” extended metaphor model that I grew up with in k-12 creative…
One of my favorite contemporary artists just keeps killing it (literally/figuratively)
Cai Guo-Qiang, Flying Together, 2011
