Well you know poetry rarely gets reviewed really, more like analyzed. Today I made this discovery: a review/analsyis of the poem I recently had published on this blog. Hmmm. Cool methinks. What say you?
Tag: literary
My Latest Publication: Diode
Y'all know this doesn't happen often: Me. In print! Check it out here: http://www.diodepoetry.com/v2n3/content/scott_da.html
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Of Full Moons and 5ks
http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott Full moon and my body’s behaving accordingly: Lethargy and insomnia at the same time (imagine that), the dubious and nagging insinuation of migraine, an incorrigible appetite and that mad scientist creative urge that will not be satiated until I have a bedroom floor full of doo-dads and what-nots and some reconstructed summer shirts. Full [...]
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Monthly Meter
Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of : April Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 1 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 1 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 4 Secret Shame: "Single Ladies" by Beyonce Books: Shifting Through Neutral - Bridgett M. Davis
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The Obituary
As promised, I’ve been working out this obituary. And I got a new idea while writing it. I’m developing a collection of poems on Jonestown and I’m thinking I’ve found a format: a series of obituaries of the people in the pictures. Well as I imagine them since many aren’t identified. Just a thought. But [...]
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Eulogy
“If anyone from the country club/asks if you write poems, say/your name is Lizzie Borden. /Show him your axe...” Tess Gallagher“Instructions to the Double” (1976) I’m writing my own obituary. It was an exercise I was supposed to do for a writing workshop I took some years ago.The scary thought is that I had [...]
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My Positive (Well, Not Really That Positive) Spin On Unemployment
I wake up every morning unemployed and pissed off about it. One might think pissed off-ness would have worked like premium gas and got my system into racing form. But just like the economic forecast predicted: I am stuck with the rest of the sluggish economy. What's a girl to do when she wakes to [...]
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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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Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of February: Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 1 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 4 Secret Shame: the what if's Books: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - August Wilson * The Ambiguous Adventure - Cheikh Hamidou Kane The Piano Lesson - August Wilson *still reading 2 February 2009
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My Other Glass Slipper
http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott This comes from a series of essays I began back when Skippy was a pup called Angry With Abstinence and Other Reasons to Riot about (among other things) my Chinese pen pal, growing up in the crack era, how dying my hair matched my relationships, and dating a drug dealer I pretended I did [...]
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