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Time 27 Aug 2013 | 08:50 pm
Oy, it’s been a week. A few things: First, there are two poets lined up for Refinery! I promise you both that I’ll get to them, and I have read both poems already. I just need to find some time to ac...
Carlos Amorales, “Black Cloud” 20 Aug 2013 | 09:03 pm
Random ekphrasis is what’s on tap today. A while back, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, was this piece by Carlos Amorales that consist of tens of thousands of black paper moths affixed to all the su...
Climate Change 17 Aug 2013 | 01:26 am
Most boring day at work ever, so I just thought I’d scribble something. Haven’t done any terza rima in a while, so I’m polishing those skills a little bit. Margo Roby is once again my champion for me...
Observing a Beating 15 Aug 2013 | 04:31 am
I don’t often use the “trigger warning” header, but I suppose I should in this case: there is some ugly violence in here. This poem went through about ten different versions, none of them satisfactory...
The Refinery: debi swim 11 Aug 2013 | 10:36 pm
Thanks to Margo Roby for her plug; there’s poems for the Refinery for the first time in weeks! I do enjoy having something more to do than stare at prompts or random lists of things I’ve scrummaged to...
Pomona 8 Aug 2013 | 05:19 am
I’m in a frustrated place, where I feel like I want to write blog posts, but can’t. This isn’t because I don’t have anything to say, but I’m at this curious point where I want everything I write to ha...
Visitation 2 Aug 2013 | 08:44 am
Had a weird experience at the café tonight, where they played a particular song (Cranberries, “Zombie”) that comes up rarely enough that it always reminds me of a certain deceased classmate of mine fr...
meta-blog: readings and ravings and residencies 1 Aug 2013 | 04:38 am
Get ready for some linkage. Last night was the Sibling Rivalry Press reading in Bryant Park, which was oodles of good clean fun. (Well, maybe not clean, entirely.) Seven excellent poets read, and seve...
Trimming the Tree 30 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
Goofy little things here for a Monday evening. We Write Poems wanted a “kaleidoscope” poem gathering source material of different kinds and spinning it into a response of some kind. So, here was my pr...
meta-blogging: new journal 29 Jul 2013 | 02:10 am
It is time for an Important Announcement! As you may have noticed, lately Tessa and I have been struggling to keep Curio afloat. There are several reasons why it’s been tough: major life changes/diff...
