February 2011
10 posts
“If you don’t see anything for a while, it’s because I have enough respect for...”
– So sayeth Dave Caolo of 52 Tiger.
Amen. And +1.
“There are two ways of looking at a thing. Either you feel that a thing must be...”
– WILLIAM GEDNEY: “William Gedney Journal Entry - Quoting Alfred Stieglitz” (1969)
Watch“I used to make mixtapes back in the day / all my favourite jams on a TDK…”
It’s been a minute since I put a mixtape together, and in the time between, I’ve found 8tracks, which helps me to feel some way legal while drawing your attention to some of the music that made up the soundtrack for my January. Walking the streets with a camera in hand, leafing through...
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“The Gospel Singer’s bending the word “Lord” in her mouth. And in Lord there’s...”
– Douglas Kearney talking “Craft Work” on the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog.
“For the next two months, poet Douglas Kearney will be Harriet’s ‘Craft Work’ blogger. ‘Craft Work’ is a Harriet feature in which poets, translators, editors, and publishers...
“Next time, ask: What’s the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little...”
– Naomi Wolf (via sonsryan)
“Take George Lucas, or Spielberg: They’re doing, in my mind, what they truly...”
– David Lynch On Doing What You Love - The Rumpus.net
And on that note, a little acknowledgement. As you may have noticed, I haven’t been blogging much recently, if the definition of the verb “blog” is based around the idea of writing things. Instead, I’ve been throwing up...
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Douglas Kearney on reading his work aloud while...
“I almost always begin with description, as a way of focusing on that compelling...”
– Souls on Ice - wherein Mark Doty describes the process behind the making of his poems - image/description first, then, as he works the image, the leap to deeper meaning/significance - what it is that image might offer up for the poem…
“I do believe poetry changes the world: it changes the world by changing the way...”
– Kathleen Graber 