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Beyond Dirt Knees | Ryan M. McKelvey
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Ryan M. McKelvey. Written and performed by Ryan M. McKelvey. With co-direction by Zoya Sardashti. Think of it as possession. I wanted to be filled with a virility that I believed I lacked. Is an investigation of my history and sexuality. The performance builds itself around a specific experience I had with an older man nearly three times my age. Through media, memories and movement,. Speaks of family, self and sex as it asks:. How is one’s language of identity written? In July 2012,. In 2007. In Seou...
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March | 2015 | Jeff Oaks
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Thirteen Blogs I Read. The Writing Life, Writing Prompts, Essays on the Ordinary. Month: March, 2015. March 29, 2015. If there is something in your face that God. Will not countenance, you will be turned away, that God. Can have an easier time of it apparently, his mortal. Subjects so delicate they cannot bear what God,. It’s claimed anyway, thinks is abominable to serve. Pie or flowers or wedding cake to. If you say that God. Doesn’t exist, for example, you too could be turned away,. March 25, 2015.
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Geographies | Jeff Oaks
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Thirteen Blogs I Read. The Writing Life, Writing Prompts, Essays on the Ordinary. 8220;…the most interesting travel has nothing to do with cruise lines and restaurants. It involves entry into worlds other than your own. You don’t have to go very far to do that,” says Adam Hochschild in his essay “Travel Writing.”. June 13, 2015. One Comment to “Geographies”. June 16, 2015 at 9:31 am. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. The greatest ...
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February | 2015 | Jeff Oaks
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Thirteen Blogs I Read. The Writing Life, Writing Prompts, Essays on the Ordinary. Month: February, 2015. February 20, 2015. Where are your souls, your curiosity, your bravery, your fears, your loves, your minds? Instead, I cancelled classes. One student wrote to say she wished her other students were as considerate about the weather. Or are we stuck now in a culture of always having to be “on”, always writing something, always working on projects? And there it is, the owl universe. Something in my co...
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Thirteen Blogs I Read. The Writing Life, Writing Prompts, Essays on the Ordinary. It’s been a long week. Here are some of the highlights:. I write this one road home, tired and happy and full of admiration for Scotland, largely because of our guide Nory, who has been driving us around and telling us wonderful stories about Scotland’s history. Cuihlain and (Ska ha? The Old Man of Storr, billy McKrinnon(? Every education requires some space to dream in. We want to dream now. June 22, 2015. Next Post ».
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Eating Offal: notes from Scotland | Jeff Oaks
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Thirteen Blogs I Read. The Writing Life, Writing Prompts, Essays on the Ordinary. Eating Offal: notes from Scotland. There were a number of things that turned out to be, if not a complete pleasure, not as bad as I’d thought. The problem was always in my imagination, never on my actual tongue. Too late I tried the Cullen Skink, a sort of stew of fresh haddock and potatoes which I then could not get enough of, because I knew the word Skink as a salamander. July 20, 2015. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You are...
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Commonplace Book | Jeff Oaks
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Thirteen Blogs I Read. The Writing Life, Writing Prompts, Essays on the Ordinary. A place to put some interesting documents. Great blog by Cathy Day. A blog post by the late Reginald Shpherd about Avant garde. A British take on post-modernist poetry. On Teaching Creative Writing by Rachel Cusk. 2 Comments to “Commonplace Book”. January 25, 2013 at 1:48 pm. Did you draw this, Jeff? Could I borrow it? January 25, 2013 at 8:28 pm. I did What do you want to do with it? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Just your t...
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Writing Prompt | Jeff Oaks
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Thirteen Blogs I Read. The Writing Life, Writing Prompts, Essays on the Ordinary. June 23, 2015. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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