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Category: Poet Life

You know, the life of a poet. Thoughts, ramblings, finer points of not really living up to the writer persona. You know, poet life.

Sage Advice from Maj

It teaches us to pay attention, to learn how to be alone with ourselves.

About Poetry, Poetry, Poetry Advice, Poetry Blog, Poetry Professor

Failures

Woe is me, obviously.

Creative Writing, Creative Writing Process, Experimental Creative Writing, Experimental Writing, Poet, Poetry Blog, Poetry Process, Projector Art, Projector Poetry, Street Art, Visual Poetry, Writing, Writing Process

Centos During Shelter in Place

I have been working on a new poetry project, though.

Cento, Collage Poetry, Creative Writing, Patchwork Poetry, Poet Blog, Poetry Blog, Poetry Project

Oh, You’re a Poet

…which is to say that if I stop believing I exist I will, in fact, cease to exist—or else my cat is the reason I exist, in which case, I’m doomed.

Blog, Poet Blog, Poet Life, Poetry Blog, Writer Blog

A Sudden, Monday Night Thought (posted Tues)

Eventually, you find the frozen plums in the icebox.

Creative Writing Process, Creative Writing Studio, Experimental Creative Writing, Experimental Poetry, Poet, Poet Blog, Poet Life, Poetry Blog, Poetry Process, Poetry Space, Poetry Studio, Poetry Writing, Poetry Writing Space

Long Time No See

More poems need to be written and others need revised, but I’m feeling pretty fantastic about seeing my writing evolve.

Am Writing, Concrete Poetry, Creative Writing Process, Poet Blog, Poet Life, Poetry, Poetry Blog, Visual Poetry, Writing Process

Hi, Kids

Do you want to see me type pages of acrobats,

Leak leagues of sea toxins into a light beam?

Blog, Poetry Blog, Teacher, Writing Teacher

A Close Call

Who in their right mind would acquire 2 overhead projectors, anyway?

Creative Writing Process, Poet Blog, Poetry Blog, Poetry Process, Poetry Studio

Time Wasters: When I’m not Writing Poems

I will say this: Jupiter Ascending is a fantastic movie and you should stop judging it.

Creative Writing, Distractions, Distractions from Poetry, Distractions from Writing, Poet Life, Time Wasters, When Not Writing

Up to the Mound Post M.F.A.

You stay loose, responsive and you do what you know how to do best. / You dish it out with everything you’ve got.

Baseball Metaphor, Creative Writing, M.F.A., M.F.A. Degree, M.F.A. Graduate, Master of Fine Arts, Poetry, Post M.F.A. Degree, Writing

Daily Writing

Sometimes I got home from work and hit pen to page immediately. Sometimes, I made a fancy af dinner and then wrote. Sometimes, I got halfway through a bottle of Jack before anything slurred its way away from me.

Creative Writing, Daily Practice, Daily Writing, Poetry, Writing Poetry

Hip Hop Influence

Biggie rhyming hippopotamus with preposterous did me in. That was it. I was like, Okay, maybe there is more to sonics than just sonnets and nursery rhymes. Exceptional things happen here.

Body Poem, Concrete Poem, Creative Influence, Creative Writing, Freestyle, Hip Hop, Poetry, Rhyme, Sonic, Visual Poetry

Wax-Winged Tongue: A Hip Hop Icarus

With time I eased into it. I would spit a couple lines (all spit, no lines) at a time. Okay a few words here and there, then lines came. I’d follow along to what my friends were saying and how they were doing it, listening to the moments of flow and for their solutions to stumbling through. I laughed a lot. I thought a lot. I listened.

Creative Influence, Creative Writing, Flow, Freestyle, Hip Hop, Poetry, Rhyme, Spit

Creative Writing on a Computer

I’m wondering what programs are out there or what kind of set ups people work with to make the writing process different from everything else that happens on your comp.

Composition, Creative Writing, Document Formatting, Format, Poetry, Poetry Writing, Typing, Word Processing

Days Without Writing Cont’d

What kinds of creative things do you do when you’ve been pulled away from it for a while? How do you get back into the artistic groove?

Creative Space, Creative Writing, Daily Writing, Poetry, Prose

Days Without Writing

My heart was a mess. No poems exited my person.

Creative Writing, Daily Writing, Poems, Poetry, Practice, Prose

Sudden Submission of a Chapbook

I very suddenly submitted my chapbook to a number of fantastic places.

Chapbook, Poetry Blog, Submission, Writing Contest

Shout Out(s)

The image is a run through of inspirations: literary, personal and of creative interest. By no means a complete list.

creative influences, friends, influences, poets, shout out, writers

Poet Business Cards ????

Now I have fancy looking cards with my important information on the back and I can be confident that I won’t miss another possibly interaction with interesting people.

Business Card, Collage, Poet Blog, Poet Life

Poet Business Cards ???

Once I got into it, not worrying about the desired result of the collages so much as the actual result, the collages themselves, and having decided to commit to at least a handful of cards, the fun took over.

Business Card, Collage, Poet Life

Poet Business Cards ?

I mean, I’m not trying to be Patrick Batemen.

Business Card, Poet Blog

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