These are part of a class exercise (game). We pulled pre-portioned texts and used them to make ‘erasure poems.’ Then, piling found on top of found (as in: ‘found poetry’), we were to leave them in places around campus for others to discover.
Here at the Glen I’m listening and talking all the time. In and out of class, particularly out of class. They’re the conversations one had at 3 a.m. in college, that shift from mysteries-of-the-universe profound, to profoundly silly, then over into practical problem-solving, and back around again. Except we have them all day… and into […]
It was foolhardy, but since I made it back I’ll talk about it. Foolhardy: I hiked alone; I set out in the afternoon during Santa Fe’s monsoon season; I wore Chuck Taylors (flat-soled, slightly slick). Since I’m here to write this, it all ended well in the end. Besides, I wanted it badly: to move, […]
Fill up every time you can, whether with water or car-fuel. Blooming where you’re planted is sometimes just not going to happen. There are a lot more ways to dress for coolth than just to cut the sleeves and legs off things. Pace matters. And matters more at some times of day than others. Subtlety […]
Maybe this time I can start to wrap some (more?) words around this strand I keep tugging at. Yesterday I ran across this article: http://www.elle.com/culture/news/a46877/motherhood-is-rotten-for-a-womans-self-esteem-heres-how-we-can-make-it-better/ which includes: Some of the self-esteem dip found among mothers of young children is an inevitable byproduct of taking on something as demanding, and life-altering, as having a child. It […]
