Category: creativity
-
Braille Poem
Braille is a poem for my poetry podcast. I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote since 2005.
-
To Jack Across the Sea
To Jack Across the Sea is a poem for my poetry podcast. I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote since 2005.
-
Grunt : a poem for Inconveniences Rightly Considered
This poem — Grunt — is a part of a poetry podcast in which I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote since 2005. Eventually I’ll include the poems of your local lay poets:
-
Silt : poem for Inconveniences Rightly Considered
This poem is a part of a poetry podcast in which I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote since 2005. Eventually I’ll include the poems of your local lay poets:
-
A Defense of Poetry : Inconveniences Rightly Considered
This Defense of Poetry is the start of a poetry podcast in which I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote since 2005.
-
Spiva Center for the Arts : Rebecca Kanan’s Poem based on Mearcstapa
Thanks to F.C. Schultz for the heads up. Rebecca Kanan wrote a poem for Spiva Center for the Arts based on the album cover Mark Neuenschwander and Dave Mehrens made for my failed Kickstarter album: She wrote it for Spiva Center for the Arts “1,000 Words” project in which poets and tellers are invited to write…
-
Small Stories for Kids: SCARY DRESS UP by 8-year-old Harry Neuenschwander
It was a cold night when suddenly Jack heard something. So he went downstairs. “It was coming from the kitchen,” he said as he walked in. Then he screamed and ran out of the kitchen. “Ahhh!” But it was actually his big brother Sam dressing as a ghost. “I just wanted to scare you so…
-
McCluhan and the Message of Mediums
When I was ten, they took me to my first art museum. By “they” I don’t mean the inevitable ethereal “they” like “they say cell phones cause cancer now.” I mean my teachers spent one of the many field trips sprinkled throughout my elementary school career driving us all to an art museum thirty minutes…
-
WordPress Subscribers: Some Days the Internet Gets Mad at Me
Newton’s Third Law of Blogging: If you spend a good chunk of your life barking at the internet by calling it a distraction and a destabilizer and disintegrator of relationships, eventually the internet will bite back. Yesterday, those of you old guard still subscribed to this site’s old Wordpress email following received 92 emails from the WordPress server for…
-
My Idea is not My Identity. And You are Not Your Ideas.
I see this “my idea” problem all the time with creatives, artists, makers, and muse-oriented folk. Artist gets an idea. Artist smeagols idea. Artist hoards idea and pampers idea until idea multiplies like black mold. Artist scares off — or kills off — anyone who comes anywhere near idea. Artist finally releases idea. Idea flops because…
-
La La Land analysis : a Humble Rebuke of Hollywood
Tara insisted I go see La La Land with her and I didn’t plan on doing a La La Land analysis, frankly. I wanted to go see the film, enjoy it, and let that be that in keeping with the reticence theme of this year-long social media hiatus. Especially since I have an analysis of Arrival, Dr.…
-
Spillface — another Parengo Coffee Commercial
This Parengo Coffee Commercial makes fun of the typical local ads you see in small towns. Worked on it, like the others, alongside Mark N. Photo and Flying Treasure: