A few poems of mine that mention mothers: In that moment, when she rose to speak I thought of my mother never getting to do the things she wanted to do Everyone had expectations My mother wore a headscarf When I was young, most women wore scarves sometimes. Nobody thought much about them: rain falls, [...]
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Still waiting—meanwhile…
I am still waiting with bated breath (O! the anticipation!) for the poem I submitted to the CDC Poetry Project to be posted. In the meantime, The Seattle Star has published my Jean Cocteau poem: http://www.seattlestar.net/2018/01/the-poems-of-jean-cocteau-will-keep-you-awake-at-night/… (3 January 2018)
A bad-poetry flashback, c. 1980
To give you some idea of how far I have come, here are a couple of bad poems I contributed to my high school’s yearbook my senior year. The theme of that year’s book was ‘Records of the Past’—because no one had ever thought of that one before, right? Read at your peril… polyvinyl dreams [...]
Three poems in response to calliope/troll/raspberry
So, I went to an Xmas party yesterday held by one of the groups whose readings I regularly participate in. The main activity was a friendly competition, in which we each got three words to incorporate into a poem that we would then read. My words were calliope, troll, and raspberry. Ugh! I had to look up calliope, as [...]
I just realized…
…in one week, I can resume using verbs in my poems. (25 May 2016)
ART 53, day 12
(I changed the title of this series of posts—finally!—because Working on the new book sounds really lame. Anyway…) Today, I began raiding a past project for some layout ideas. From July 2009 through June 2010, I worked on creating one new layout for each day. For the most part, I succeeded (though there were a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Working on the new book, days 8 & 9
While waiting for answers to a couple of questions on the copy-editing assignment I am mostly finished with, I resumed new book stuff. Day 8, a couple of days ago, it was back to the iPhoto stuff. I wasn’t particularly in the mood, but I don’t want to let things sit any longer than I [...]
Working on the new book, days 6 & 7
Wandering through iPhoto land now—approximately 12,000 images covering 2006 through 2010, with a few scans of photos from the 1970s and 1980s. There was a slight hiccup to deal with first: i.e., accessing my old iPhoto libraries. The more photos you import into iPhoto, the more unwieldy it gets. So five years ago, I saved [...]
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