Sage Advice from Maj

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

Failures

Woe is me, obviously.

Centos During Shelter in Place

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

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.

A Sudden, Monday Night Thought (posted Tues)

Eventually, you find the frozen plums in the icebox.

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.

Hi, Kids

Do you want to see me type pages of acrobats,

Leak leagues of sea toxins into a light beam?

A Close Call

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

Time Wasters: When I’m not Writing Poems

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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?

Days Without Writing

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

Sudden Submission of a Chapbook

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

Shout Out(s)

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

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.

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.

Poet Business Cards ?

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