My computer crashed last week and I've been in a state of mourning since that fateful night so full of downloads and bad infomercials. The good ones, they say, die young and my baby was just over a year old. So full of promise: pieces of poems to be written, collections of everything from music to published anecdotes [...]
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An Open Letter to Oprah from Saul Williams
I didn't see the infamous Oprah episode in totality yet. In fact the world around me seems to have melted lately and I live on the island called My Bed enraptured in thoughts; some I write down; some I just bore into the ceiling with my eyes. But I'm heading to the web to check it out. In [...]
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Monthly Meter
Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of March: Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 3 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/ Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 5 WTF moments: 3
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Monthly Meter
Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of February: Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 3 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/ Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 2 WTF moments: 2
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My Attempt at Fiction
I couldn’t squeeze a poem out that summer no matter how hard I tried. I glued, painted, drew, struggled to breathe. And wrote this. Besides me, this is what survived: a piece of fiction. Read, be entertained, be glad that summer’s over. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Usual Suspects It was too hot for the usual suspects: [...]
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Advice to a Young Poet
I don’t hang out with a lot of artists these days. It makes me all melancholy (and I really don’t need their help with this) when I figure out that it’s just a look and smell they wear. I’m all lonely grumbling, “Where are the real mofos at?” Questioning myself, like, maybe I’m being [...]
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[vintage UtR] Some Humble Advice for Writers
I had a Chinese pen pal when I was in middle school. Her penmanship was meticulous. I tried to imitate it. I think handwriting is the most organic yet undervalued art—the kind most of us are capable of and don’t even realize it. You can tell such an honest story with it. It doesn’t [...]
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