Category: poetry
Monthly Meter
Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : March Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 1 Secret Shame: Some days I am still caught up in the self doubt that is puberty. There, I admitted it. Books: The Known World - Edward P. Jones
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A Poem (trying to find itself)
http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott In Another Life I might’ve been a girl who took evening swims in brown water bathed in it in grey morning decorated my eyes with coal and never felt anything you do to me but instead I am a girl who dreams too much about other places and people I could never be [...]
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Monthly Meter(s)
Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of November: Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: Secret Shame: How long it took me to finish that one book I read. It's not you, Adichie. It's me. Chimamanda Adichie, the author deserves every award she's received for the novel; it's excellent in its ability to be objective in [...]
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WORLD AIDS DAY
Today I think of Mr. Williams, Beatrice's mom and dad, Delvin, Victor, Chester. If you have no person to think of, here's some other stuff you can think about to fill in that grey space in your brain. On this 20th Annual World AIDS Day In many developing countries a woman's biggest risk factor for being infected is getting [...]
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Club Bangers are Made Not Born; or
Personal Responsibility and the Ways We Bullshit Ourselves Into Believing We Practice It Last night I found myself at a club with a group that is well educated, well spoken, well traveled and eat well for all of those reasons among others. They are DuBois’ Talented Tenth but instead of bringing the other ninety percent [...]
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Dispatch From the Lou’
http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott “You complain for the life you supposed to have/But when you try to make plans God is known to laugh…” Broken Glass, Talib Kweli I’m in St. Louis for a writing workshop even though I’m no longer convinced that writing is something I need to do. I used to have a sense of urgency: get [...]
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Between the Lines
Between the lines is white space. That’s all. The lines tell the story. The gaps give you space to figure it out. From high school and university “explications,” I got the idea that literature was obscure and confusing. That writers deliberately wrote in layers to be picked apart. The perception had a lot to do [...]
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The Stats in Real Time
If you read my Monthly Meter then here's a chance to see some of those stats face to face: http://www.torchpoetry.org/08%20Spring/darlenescott.htm
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Monthly Meter
Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of May: Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 1 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 1 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 2 Secret Shame: Not getting out of bed until 9 a.m. (sometimes later) and watching lots of mindless television into the wee hours. Books: 0 (Because that would take time away from watching Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee, and Hell [...]
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