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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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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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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Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of January: Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 5 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 1 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 0 Secret Shame: Questions. So many questions. Books: Leaving Atlanta - Tayari Jones Clay's Ark - Octavia Butler
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Photo: Slig77 DeviantArt.com My log for the month of December: Writing/Residency/Fellowship Submissions: 9 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Acceptances: 0 Writing/Residency/Fellowship Rejections: 1 Secret Shame: The way I feel. 'Nough said. Books: Manchild in the Promised Land - Claude Brown
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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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