Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to translate a poem. My Day #30 poem can be found here. I wanted to fix it up a bit more, however, as it felt incomplete. So—bonus round!—here is a somewhat more polished version, in which I worry less about preserving the exact meaning of the original. It’s not an out-and-out rewrite (even [...]
Tag: April 2016
National Poetry Writing Month, Day #30
Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to translate a poem. Seeing as how the closest thing I have to poetry in a foreign language is my small-ish collection of Japanese albums, and I do have experience translating Japanese, I chose as my poem a song by Nav Katze. Green Eye Reflections in water, adrift on a moonlit night [...]
Dear Saturday…
Dear Saturday, Well, a bright, sunny day! Who knew? Love, Kevin (30 April 2016)
Working on the new book, day 11
I’m up late. By the time I post this, it will be a few minutes past 1:30 in the a.m. At the last minute, I decided to skip the poetry reading I would normally have gone to; instead, I resumed looking at photos—this time my iPhoto library covering 2011–2015. Instead of going through the photos [...]
Coffee Stains giveaway: 36 hours (and change) left!
Thirty-six hours and forty-five minutes to go! The entry period for my Goodreads giveaway of Coffee Stains ends Saturday at midnight, Pacific time. I am giving away three copies, each signed, and with its own unique coffee-cup ring. Enter at: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/181735 (29 April 2016)
Dear Friday…
Dear Friday, Retrograde is here again. Joy. Love, Kevin (29 April 2016)
National Poetry Writing Month, Day #29
Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is ‘to write a poem based on things you remember.’ Not a particularly unique prompt (particularly the ‘I remember…’ variant), but I gave it a shot: A list of random things I remember from childhood that ends up being all about TV in the end and could theoretically go on forever because I didn’t bother [...]
Working on the new book, day 10
Despite getting some decent catch-up sleep last night, I did not feel like going through a bunch of photos several times over today, so I opted instead to copy the rest of the poems to the InDesign documents I set up a little while back. I did very little as far as actual layout is [...]
Coffee Stains giveaway: Just a couple of days left…
The entry period for my Goodreads giveaway of Coffee Stains ends Saturday at midnight, Pacific time. I am giving away three copies, each signed, and with its own unique coffee-cup ring. Enter at: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/181735 (28 April 2016)
Dear Thursday…
Dear Thursday, Catch-up sleep is awesome! Love, Kevin (28 April 2016)