Unable to focus; multi-sensory overload becomes a strategy: layers of sound: ocean waves beneath Pink Floyd under Ms. Pacman eating dots while chasing ghosts because Tetris couldn’t stabilize you this time and tab after tab after tab remains open to another then another and without no end to exhausting … Continue reading
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Following Discovery: Considering Self-Acknowledgement After Reading “The Answer” by Agnes Lee
After much searching I found what I was looking for, but now that I have I don’t know what to do. I messaged a dear friend; she said talk to friends, talk to your therapist. She said, I love you. I said, I love you too. In times of unknowing I also turn to literature. … Continue reading
Essay / Lovers / Sadness / Uncategorized
On Tomorrowness
I am skipping the next thousand moments in favor of belonging to the next day. I have decided that the next day is permanent and shall remain that one day for the rest of my life. If I wish it to be so it must be so. I place a mental check mark next to … Continue reading
Revisiting the Hermitage: Questions & Answers After Reading “Sanctuary” by Jean Valentine
Past midnight; the gravitational pull inside the hour pushing into the next day. I am tired; knees buckle. I cannot say that I am trapped in the “Sanctuary” , a poem by Jean Valentine because I can straighten myself up and walk forward and away. But the address of “you” is too inviting and I am drawn … Continue reading
Please Share: Revolt! Upcoming Symposium, Providence, RI, Fall 2018
Good morning! I am really excited to be involved with this project– please share with your friends, colleagues, graduate students, independent scholars, anyone— we want to read your abstracts! Here is a link to our website: https://revoltsymposium.wordpress.com/ We’ve also posted our call-for-papers on UPenn CFP, MLA Commons, theCFPList, and other places. This topic and event is … Continue reading
Art / Essay / Muriel Rukeyser / Poetics / poetry / reading / Sound / Uncategorized / Writing
New Essay On Muriel Rukeyser
I am excited to share my essay, “She Sings the Body Electric: Soundscape in Two “Songs” by Muriel Rukeyser,” up and ready for reading at the Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive Scholarship Page (sponsored by the Eastern Michigan State University English Department and EMU’s Women in Philanthropy, founded and edited by Elizabeth Däumer). I hope … Continue reading
On Patience
I dislike quotes about anything involving patience. Virtue. Fortitude. Calmness. The idea that “patience is a virtue” is cloying, unremarkable. Cliché. In Chapter III of “Patience Nescot’s Narrative” she writes about her own issues with her namesake as well as the act of patience: But then is not patience servile and cowardly, a shrinking thing … Continue reading
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On Saying “I Love You”
“I Love You.” F.P.; Am Ostbahnhof. Creative Commons License, Flickr. A common phrase extolling emotional urgency due to the “attractive qualities” of another; “deep affection”; a conveyance of “benevolent attachment” and “fondness.” [1] To say “I love” is also an exaggeration of the “you” or any detachable noun or pronoun: I love you! I love … Continue reading
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At Home with the Animals: Wood Block Paintings by Charles Smith
I had the pleasure of spending an exorbitant amount of time in one of my favorite used bookstores. Grey Matter is nestled just beyond the intersection of MA-9 and “the bridge.” Turn down East Street and you’ll find, hidden under the water tower, one of the best bookstores in Massachusetts. I was looking in the … Continue reading
Art / Commentary / criticism / discussion / Essay / Literature / Photography / Sensuality / Uncategorized / Washington Post
(Non)Apologia.
But like a figure in a TV makeover show, it was an apple that its handlers could not leave alone. They altered its shape. They made it firmer and more juicy. They made it so it could be stored in hermetically sealed warehouses for 12 months. Along the way, they changed its color and hence … Continue reading
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