Jul 10, 2015
I have a poem in the new issue of Gesture and there are also poems from Sarah Jean Alexander, Mike Young, Theron Jacobs, & Joshua Jennifer Espinoza. Yay.
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I have a poem in the new issue of Gesture and there are also poems from Sarah Jean Alexander, Mike Young, Theron Jacobs, & Joshua Jennifer Espinoza. Yay.
A slug kills nine people in a church and you’ve still got to button your shirt. A white man says we need to set a higher bar for terrorism and then rides off my timeline on a police horse. That’s where we live nowadays—everyone is wrong and they keep raising racist flags above the state house. There's nothing new I could learn from another man—I know enough about being awful in being an awful one myself.
Dumbfounded to have two poems as part of the Pen Poetry Series before I turn 30 on Sunday <3
i can’t be stopped or helped
Nothing makes you think more about time than the processes of a relationship. Not even writing can touch that.
Carrie Lorig, via SMS
What makes a reading a success in your eyes?
Can I answer this as a writer?
Yes.
MC: As a performer, I think I can kind of instinctively tell based on the energy in the room. I feel like giving a reading is not about validating your ego, but about putting yourself out there in a way where you can feel the gap between yourself and the audience closing. I gave a reading last night and I swear, even before the fucking thing was over, it felt like the whole audience was giving me a hug. I didn’t even have to look up to know that–I was projecting my love to them, and they laughed and they sighed and they clapped and they took deep breaths at all the places that made me feel those feelings. So to me, I know a reading is a success when I walk off the stage and I feel love.
Tyler Gof Barton asked me some questions about readings and this is what I came up with.
Hatred is a boring aesthetic. Controversy is a boring aesthetic. The most radical things we can do are love & take up less space--or, to take up more space with a quiet appreciation. To be loud with appreciation of others. To love, in general.
Cassandra Fucking Gillig, via gchat
I am ashamed of my century for being so entertaining but I have to smile
Frank O'Hara, "Naphtha"