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Tag: Creative Writing
Love Poem
The fresh blossomed trees beneath bright blue / unblemished sky—Bird bellowed tunes floating through Spring shower clouds in rhythmic time—Flower … More
Free Write #?
Sharing a freestyle (free write) from a few days ago. Thought it’s time to start sharing what I love to write without worrying about revision.
Onward! A Poetry Blog Continues
Here, I’ve found a place to dialogue this art outside the city gates. I don’t want to sound intellectual or worse, arrogant. I want to talk about things that have challenged and opened up my creativity.
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.
Poetry: TF?
The instant a poem is contained the poet dies, and we can’t let that happen.
Distracted Writing
At one point I’m just focused on the other thing—Baduizm is blowing me away in these first songs—On and On is eternally (you realize) catching—but when I come back in these short interaction with writing, I see little things that can get lost in the big-picture.
Organix: Poetry that Breathes
Fascists out!
Poetic Possibility
He changed and his poems changed with him.
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.
Freestyle
I wanted to add the missing auditory piece that would connect constellations of visual elements on the page with the linguistic meat and potatoes.
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.
Major Mistakes I’ve Made in Writing Visual Poetry
Then it drops down a vertical line? Why, Dan? Why?
Constraint in Visual Poetry
Every visual poem is constrained by human sense of what is real, whether physical “laws” or metaphors of abstract concepts.
Visual Poetry and Fun
I mean, you can have a graphic novel about Batman sitting in his bat-cave or you can show him swooping across rooftops.
A Poet Blogging
And why avoid something modern and weird and uncertain and without academic criticism having focused on it for a thousand years?
A Hybrid Poem thing
The original document remains titled “smth new.”
Why I’m not Over-Valuing My Writing Anymore
No one knows me.
That’s why.
Dan Dorman 