Category: awp brain mush
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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
While I was in Chicago, Beau and I went to see Too Much Light Make the Baby Go Blind (TMLMTBGB), a show by the Neo-Futurist collective. TMLMTBGB is a randomized spectacle of “30 plays in 60 minutes” and it was pretty fantastic. A cast of six actors act out a 30 short-shorts that feature audience…
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AWP Report, in Brief
I think I must be the only person who does AWP right. I didn’t see anyone I dislike, I didn’t overspend in the bookfair, I wasn’t bored by attending the wrong panels, and I didn’t get to spend enough time with any of the people I do like. If anything, AWP only served to remind…
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Visit Me at AWP
Where you can find me: 1. My room, stealing a moment (call for instructions).2. The Writer’s Center/Poet Lore booth, #238.3. “Poetry’s Electronic Communities” panel chatting about LOCUSPOINT, Thursday at 4:30 – 5:45 pm, Private Dining Room 2, 3rd floor.4. Watching the ASU/Piper Center for Creative Writing booth from afar, trying to gauge if they “miss…
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The Poetics of Never Forgetting
I forget things. I forget things quick and often, or better to say, perhaps, that I lose track of things, lose track of memories and experiences and my childhood. Sometimes I make lists. To do lists, shopping lists, don’t-forget-about-this lists. My house is strewn with old lists, lists clutter my desk. Sometimes I forget why…