Tag: poetry workshop
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*resonating with josé antonio rodriguez
Last week had me both at the Alice Hoffman Young Writers Retreat at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, as well as in Austin, Texas for the CantoMundo conference. It’s a little more rocknroll that I’m used to, but I had a blast! Here’s a pic of one of the nice surprises from…
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* existing with gisela kraft & an update
five-story house in laleli – Gisela Kraft one lies in rags on the street and his stomach is empty and he wishes for death one sits with friends at tea and backgammon and his mind is empty and he wishes for death one sits in a straight-backed chair at a desk and his bank…
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* tanka & short post
from the 8th floor a gray mist over Cincinnati what holds all of this together? — Jose Angel Araguz * Keeping it short due to being hospitalized earlier this week for some stomach issues. I’m writing this on Thursday, still in my hospital room. More news to come. I hope all of you are well.…
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* pennies counting with wolfgang wright
Remember, words are the enemy of poetry. – Russell Edson Sometimes what’s being said has little to do with the words saying it. This week’s piece – “Pennies” by Wolfgang Wright – is a flash fiction that develops its emotional pull subtly. The word “pennies” gathers weight throughout the short piece until it literally comes…
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* some origins, manu chao & the friday influence
In regards to the question “When did you start writing?” I give several answers depending on context. If it’s a professional context, I say seventeen, that being the year that I first typed up, printed, and sent off poems to a real lit mag. I call it the year I began to take my writing…
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* quick update
Hey y’all! Just a quick post to announce an upcoming reading: Tuesday, February 19th 5:30pm @ the Eugene Public Library I will be reading alongside fellow Eugene writer Eliot Treichel. It will be my first official reading for my chapbook, The Wall. I look forward to putting some of these poems in the air. For…
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* missing Corpus Christi
The above image is from the Sea Wall in my hometown of Corpus Christi Texas. It stretches up and down Ocean Drive, down past the Whataburger by the Bay, down into the palm-trees lining downtown. Go a little further and you’ll end up at the old site of the factory I used to work at.…
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* strange week 2: tree yoga & cinquains
So: another strange week has come upon us. (No – nothing to do with the election. Well, not really.) There has been some construction going on in our house these past two weeks, much of it occurring on my days off – which are the days that I sit down to formulate the good thoughts…
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* 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…
The Friday Influence 