jorymickelson.blogspot.com
Literary Magpie: June 2014
http://jorymickelson.blogspot.com/2014_06_01_archive.html
Some Writing and Some Muse. Sundog Lit, Superstition Review and More! You can see new poems of mine in several places:. Most recently Sundog Lit. Published two of my poems, "Welcome to the Hi-Line," and "Lange and O'Keeffe, 1933." You can read them both for free HERE. Also published a poem, "Dear Federico." Go HERE. Strangely, many of the poems coming to print now are conversations with visual artists and writers. Federico Garcia Lorca, Dorthea Lange, Georgia O'Keeffe, Tristan Tzara.". Blogs That I Follow.
jorymickelson.blogspot.com
Literary Magpie: Superstition Review Podcast
http://jorymickelson.blogspot.com/2014/07/superstition-review-podcast.html
Some Writing and Some Muse. Hello friends, back in April Superstition Review. Featured my poem "Dear Federico" on it's site. Today, they are featuring me reading my poem. This poem originally came from struggling with the images in Lorca's Poet in New York. I am thrilled to have this poem featured in such a fine magazine. A special thanks to Eduardo Corral for suggesting I use poetry to work through my struggle of other poets' work. Take a listen HERE. Eduardo c. corral. Poet in New York.
jorymickelson.blogspot.com
Literary Magpie: March 2014
http://jorymickelson.blogspot.com/2014_03_01_archive.html
Some Writing and Some Muse. My fellow 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow S J Sindu. Asked me to take part in this writing meme-blog tour hybrid. It’s a way for readers of other blogs to find new writers and for us writers to meet new readers. Welcome! I am primarily a poet and also write the occasional essay. I also am the poetry editor of two literary magazines: 5x5 Literary Magazine. So, on with the blog tour questions:. What am I working on? How does my work differ from others of its genre? I write because I...
bendinggenre.com
May 2014 – Bending Genre
https://bendinggenre.com/2014/05
Essays on Creative Nonfiction. Steve Fellner’s Pansy Poetics. AWP: Find Your Voice, Get Naked. Top 10 Reasons Why Navigating Emptiness: Benefits and Drawbacks of Teaching the Lyric Essay Was A Great Panel. May 26, 2014. Felicitous collisions under the banner of some other principle–Marco Wilkinson. I am leading my students on a chilly but sunny April afternoon through the woods of a local park. This is a class on wild edibles, and they have one assignment today: what is happening around you? If I try to ...
bendinggenre.com
February 2015 – Bending Genre
https://bendinggenre.com/2015/02
Essays on Creative Nonfiction. Steve Fellner’s Pansy Poetics. AWP: Find Your Voice, Get Naked. Top 10 Reasons Why Navigating Emptiness: Benefits and Drawbacks of Teaching the Lyric Essay Was A Great Panel. February 16, 2015. Permissive Sieves: Comparing the Lyric Essay and Ghazal–Heidi Czerwiec. I was of three minds,. In which there are three blackbirds. Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. The surreal or absurd, either because the subject matter is surreal or absurd or in order to s...
bendinggenre.com
In What She Left Behind – Maggie Messitt – Bending Genre
https://bendinggenre.com/2015/02/09/in-what-she-left-behind-maggie-messitt
Essays on Creative Nonfiction. Steve Fellner’s Pansy Poetics. AWP: Find Your Voice, Get Naked. Top 10 Reasons Why Navigating Emptiness: Benefits and Drawbacks of Teaching the Lyric Essay Was A Great Panel. February 9, 2015. In What She Left Behind Maggie Messitt. There really wasn’t anything of value, the detective declared, handing me a brown paper bag, folded in half, marked. I left the Maui police station without looking inside. I once sat for two days spinning and spinning microfiche of the. I’...
bendinggenre.com
April 2015 – Bending Genre
https://bendinggenre.com/2015/04
Essays on Creative Nonfiction. Steve Fellner’s Pansy Poetics. AWP: Find Your Voice, Get Naked. Top 10 Reasons Why Navigating Emptiness: Benefits and Drawbacks of Teaching the Lyric Essay Was A Great Panel. April 13, 2015. Lying in Translation: Notes Towards a Truthful Memoir–Brooke Champagne. And she spoke only Spanish, so I served as translator. Lying in translation was simply part of my childhood. I couldn’t tell the world the truth about who Lala was. At home she was my world, and I hers. Debates surr...
pistola32.blogspot.com
B O C A: December 2012
http://pistola32.blogspot.com/2012_12_01_archive.html
A HYBRID NOTEBOOK OF POETICS AND PORNOGRAPHIES. Don't talk to me about cruelty. Or what i am capable of. When i wanted the roaches dead i wanted them dead. And i killed them. i took a broom to their country. And smashed and sliced without warning. Without stopping and i smiled all the time i was doing it. It was a holocaust of roaches, bodies,. Parts of bodies, red all over the ground. I didn't ask their names. They had no names worth knowing. Now i watch myself whenever i enter a room. The other being, ...
pistola32.blogspot.com
B O C A: August 2009
http://pistola32.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
A HYBRID NOTEBOOK OF POETICS AND PORNOGRAPHIES. All summer, where have I been. Amnesia of mediocrity. The walk again and again and again into a wall. Reading old news. Summer news. I saw Pina Bausch twice. Once ten years ago, in a performance of "Carnations". Then last year at UCLA in a performance of "Ten Chi". Carnations": dogs, men, and women:. Color, speech, and repetition:. Is the flower a grave. Is Form the Burden. And the threat of the body: Helene Cixous:. A leap is already / a tragedy". Like a w...
pistola32.blogspot.com
B O C A: A SHORT STACK: THE GREATEST OF SARCASMS
http://pistola32.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-short-stack-greatest-of-sarcasms.html
A HYBRID NOTEBOOK OF POETICS AND PORNOGRAPHIES. A SHORT STACK: THE GREATEST OF SARCASMS. Here's a list of novels I think belong together:. And they're all related somehow to Kafka's The Trial. Or better yet, The Castle. And from there, to Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terrible. Or The White Book. The Color of Summer. The Invention of Morel. By Adolfo Bioy Casares. Our Lady of Flowers. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the Edge of the World,. I'm always wondering where are the women on this short list? Eternity was...
