Tag: MFA
-
community feature: Solstice MFA!!!
Just a quick post to share some of the virtual events open to the general public going on at this year’s Solstice MFA Winter Residency! Super excited to be given a chance to work with these graduate students, building with them and guiding them on their respective writing paths, as well as to engage with…
-
* the influence wrecking ball via Robinson Jeffers
To the Stone-cutters – Robinson Jeffers Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly; For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die,…
-
* strange week & a poem
It’s been a strange week here in my world. I promise to be back with a more regular post next week. For now, please enjoy this poem of mine published originally in Hanging Loose, a great magazine out of Brooklyn. More info on them can be found here. The poem comes from my time working…
-
* Beautiful & Pointless by David Orr – a quick review
Just finished reading David Orr’s lovely book: Beautiful & Pointless, a marvelous and sly book. Marvelous because Orr is able to navigate through the realm of contemporary poetry – both the writing of it and the living of it – in a charming and knowledgeable manner. Sly because his essays have forced me to take a…
-
* Fanny Howe & the friday influence
(poem from Robeson Street) – Fanny Howe Pushing children in plaid & silver prams us mothers were dumpy, hunched in the damp and our redlipped infants sucked on their strange fingers …
The Friday Influence 