Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Um, if in the next couple of weeks, I should ask to take a photo of your mouth, do not be alarmed. It's all in the name of design!
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In the last two days, I've written seven poems, and all of them crack me up.
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I've been having a lot of poetry dreams. Like one where I was writing a sestina. One of the end words was "idiot." I don't know if that's a good sign or not. Last night I dreamt that I had to defend my poetics to a man named Vernon Lynton, Esq. who was hiding in my closet. He told me that my work was "too conventionally interesting." Again, I have no idea how to evaluate this.
I've also had poet dreams. A couple of weeks ago, I dreamt that Shanna's husband Shawn and I were hauling bricks in wheelbarrows across a vast suburban lawn. Shanna was drinking an iced tea. She told me to go put on a different shirt because "the one you've got on really isn't that cute." And that was it. Yup.
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Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Here's an awesome "found" poem that will be in the "fun" series that I will work on in between making up a chapbook of the Calamities and doing background reading for the two serious series that I'm planning. It's not really a poem at all, but a conversation I had with my boyfriend last night. Because he's awesome like that. Although I might end up cutting it off after the third "fish." Or maybe that would just be feeding my insatiable hunger for final-sounding endings. What think you?
Insight
"Mark, what kind
of fish would you
be, if you were
a fish?" I asked, and
he asked back, "Well,
what is the equivalent
of the Black Muslim
Movement in fish? That
question is genius,
and I am capable
of recognizing genius
in myself."
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As I lay happily burrowed in the world of chapbook design, Shanna sent me a saucy layout poem. Huzzah! But really, the seductive draw of fonts and crop-marks is a growing problem in our society. Have you been affected? To find out,
take this quiz to learn if you are a typoholic. To their list of warning signs I would add one of my own: if the sight of "Comic Sans" makes you viscerally angry, you may be a typoholic.
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