Meta-Project

I've blogged about the book of poems vs. the project book in the past, more than once in fact. Recently I've found a site devoted to the project book, asking such questions as:

"What makes a book of poetry a project book, and what separates a successful project from an unsuccessful one? How does taking on a project affect a poet’s writing process, and what does the proliferation of project books in general signify for contemporary poetry?"

Hosted by Cynthia Marie Hoffman and Nick Lantz, The Cloudy House features interviews with poets who've explored the project book, including Caki Wilkinson, Shane McCrae, Oliver de la Paz, Julie Carr, and more.

It's a terrific resource.

Poems in Film!

Exciting news: Motionpoems has announced their 6th season of poets, all female, inspired by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Thanks to Todd Boss and his staff for including one of my poems, along with the work of these great women: Sarah Blake, Paula Bohince, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Kim Addonizio, Michelle Gould, Melissa Studdard, Brenda Shaughnessy, Meghan O'Rourke, Patricia Smith, Jehanne Dubrow, Catherine Pierce, Ann Eichler Kolakowski, and Stacey Lynn Brown.

If you're in Minneapolis on May 21st, try to go to one of the two public screenings.

Yay!

Tinderbox

Thanks to Molly Sutton Kiefer and Brett Elizabeth Jenkins of Tinderbox Poetry Journal for including my two poems, Alias and How It Would Be Different If We Had His Body, in with work from exciting poets such as Anna Leahy, Nicole Rollender, Michele Harman, Leslie, Shipman, Andrew Kozma, Pia Aliperti, and Barry Seiler, among others. Yay!

image borrowed from http://www.oldandinteresting.com/tinderbox.aspx

Blue Kimono: Anne Bryson

Anne Bryson, artist and friend from England, beautifully illustrated my poem "Kimono" (which originally appeared in Harpur Palate). See more of Anne's work at The Fountain Gallery. I'm always grateful for the response of readers to my work, but particularly when another artist responds I am honored. Yay for collaboration!

Topical

Topics I researched today for the poem I'm working on:

1) the properties of titanium;
2) whether Jesus spoke Aramaic or Hebrew:
3) pentagonal numbers (from Wikipedia; the number of distinct dots in a pattern of dots consisting of the outlines of regular pentagons with sides up to n dots, when the pentagons are overlaid so that they share one vertex).

Examples of Pentagonal Number

There are 22 distinct dots in the given pentagonal figure. So, 22 is a pentagonal number (from http://www.icoachmath.com/math_dictionary/pentagonal_number.html)


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