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Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 10:37 AM
I was tagged by my dear friend and collaborator j/j hastainto participate in the ongoing blog interview project, "The Next Big Thing." For this project, I am to respond on my blog to the same questions j/j used, then tag five others to do the same on their blogs--or to guest blog here-- each of whom then tag five others themselves. Here, the questions refer to one of my forthcoming books. And I will add names and links to the blogs of the authors I "tag" right here, as they agree to participate: |
publications, process notes, art practice: issues and challenges, experiments, poetics, poetry, poetry market, press, nicholas alexander hayes, blogging, j/j hastain, The Next Big Thing project, Brooklyn Arts Press, Telephone, michelle naka pierce, christine mcnair
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Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2013 1:13 PM
See my essay "Collage-Mind" at Drunken Boat! Thanks to Dan Godston for inviting me to send occasional dispatches. |
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Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 12:51 PM
Pretensions
to Accessibility
Poets
are people who make poetry, whatever that means. I make poetry that
interests me, and trust that my audience is made up of those who are
also interested in what I make. I find my work is strongest and most
satisfying to that audience when I am true to my own priorities and
my own poetics. I do not work with much concern over
"accessibility," which in the context of poetry refers to
whether or not the "general reader" will be able to find
value in the work--maybe through a recognition of cultural allusions
in the content, through emotional resonance or empathy with the
feelings described, or through relating to the experiences of the
poet as narrated in the poem.
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Posted on Monday, October 08, 2012 12:16 PM
Come up (or down, or over) to Rogers Park's own Mess Hall this Friday for the Between Reading!
The Between Reading presents texts based on the creative reading of and response to Nicholas Alexander Hayes's first novel Between. The source text examines perception and identity in a decaying American town. True to the shifting planes of perception in the book, writers and poets were invited to respond to the work through whatever modes they preferred. Their responses have been compiled in the Between Compendium.
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Posted on Monday, July 16, 2012 1:15 PM
Here is a post I wrote for Nicholas Alexander Hayes' blog Zipper. |
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Posted on Sunday, July 08, 2012 1:23 PM
This post starts an intermittent series of brief essays on poetics and on the practice of poetry. Look for other essays under the series titleThe Querist of Forms.
THE MANY LIVES OF A TEXT
One piece of writing can have many lives. In commercial or academic culture it's been traditional to see the book publication as the end goal--and somehow the "realest" form--of any text. But even the form or version of a text that is printed in a book is not necessarily the final version. |
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Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2012 9:50 AM
I'd like to announce a great exhibition of visual poetry opening on Monday, April 9 at the Addison Center for the Arts. The show includes amazing work by many visual poets from the Chicago region and beyond, and is curated by Francesco Levato. I provided ten pieces from my series "Natural History," though I don't know if all will be in the show. All the info is here, along with a nice image of one of my pieces, as a sample of what will be shown! The gallery's info page is nice too as a source of info about visual poetry, its types and techniques. |
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Posted on Monday, February 13, 2012 10:43 AM
Issue 15 of e-ratiois now up, featuring five of my prose poems and multiple outstanding works by dozens of other poets! I'm especially excited by the Susan Bee interview also featured in this issue. Check it out! |
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Posted on Monday, October 17, 2011 2:47 PM
Paraphrased and image-quoted from Larry Sawyer's blog:
Visit the site to get all the necessary information on course offerings, types, cost and payment options.
The School "seeks to offer an alternative to, and a community beyond, the Creative Writing MFA."
YES!
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