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Eying or Eyeing
1. This is the first holiday season since we moved to California that Mark and I have spent together. It's been a nice combination of laying low (cooking, movies, walks) and socializing--we spent a...
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1. Before moving to California, I never used the word "motherfucker." 2. A new quarter at UCSD has begun. I am taking 1) a multi-genre workshop that all MFAs must take with Anna Joy Springer 2) The...
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My happiness is largely dependent on my ability to express negativity and to...
I don't trust people who don't express negative emotions. Of course, there are a variety of ways of expressing negative emotions that don't always involve heated arguments or punching and being...
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Aliens! Desert! California!
I want to visit the Integratron! And it's all because of someone in my documentary class, whose name I can't now remember, who brought it up. How can I not have heard of the Integratron!According to...
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I've decided to think of workshopping as like a reading where one doesn't always read but people tell you what they think in detail anyway.Currently reading, for class Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid...
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"Does gender affect x, y and z?" Yes, gender affects everything
What have I been doing recently? I have been making poems, making films (and getting much better at it), hooping, doing acro yoga, choreographing, hanging out with friends, and organizing readings at...
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I had one of those dreams last night where I find myself taking care of a...
The dream often goes like this: I discover that, unknown to me, there is another bird in the cage with Lester, and that all this time I have been feeding and taking care of only Lester, and not this...
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Give me suggestions, happy hamstrings, lacross balls, etc...
1. For the cross-genre workshop I'm taking this quarter, I'm preparing a "pedagogical performance" (i.e. a presentation, but more fun), on Notes on Conceptualisms, by Rob Fitterman and Vanessa Place,...
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I have finished the introduction for Ben Lerner.I attempted to practice my lacrosse ball choreography piece, but I couldn't practice too much, because my hamstring is really, really still messed up. I...
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Am I Trying Too Hard?
That is me doing a rather failed chest roll.I've been thinking about the word "precious," and I'm curious about the ways different communities of writers use it--usually negatively. I'll be up front, I...
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Pop questionnaire for the poets:
How many of you grew up in the suburbs and left them for the city. And when? And many of you didn't grow up in the US at all, which is great, and I wonder how/if a suburban/urban tension might be...
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I Style My Hair With Surf Wax
My anthology arrived yesterday--I'd forgotten that there is a whole visual art section, which is exciting. I'm especially taken with "Starfish," the mixed-media piece by Hope Atherton, whose work is...
View ArticleI'm participating in two off-site readings at AWP this year--come say hello
To those of you who are heading to AWP this week, I hope to see you at the conference or at an off-site event. Mark is also participating in a panel on "Hybrid Aesthetics and its Discontents" on...
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Post Moot
I'm so very excited to be heading off to the post_moot convocation at tomorrow for four days of poetry + performance + friends + awesomeness! The photoset from post moot 2006 will give you an idea of...
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Friday Lester
A Post Moot report is coming, but in the meantime, here's a Friday Lester picture:
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Friday Lester (On Hoola Hoop in Sepia) / How can my blog be treated as a...
e real question is this: why doesn't Lester get more fan mail?Although Lester would like his own blog, "The Daily Lester," I think that Friday Lester is enough.
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"I" "Am" Still "Here"
Spring quarter at UCSD is finished. Which means my first year of my second time in graduate school is finished.I am reading in Oakland on June 20 with Jeffrey Schrader at The (New) Reading Series at 21...
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