Category: articles
-
13 Ways of Looking Format
Hello, poets. By way of catch-up/reminder: I’m Merrill Lee, a poet who poets 5 days a week and blogs about it RIGHT HERE. Welcome! I have no “goals,” no grand artistic vision, no manuscript (ok fine I have a manuscript, but we don’t have to talk about it). Every day I show up to the…
-
An Almost World
What we could have been is lost forever,muted and mangled in unborn time.A darkness, the deepness of false memoryis all that remains of your potential smile.We will never taste of that August sky,shared in a strong and whipping wind,or walk together on that forgotten groundwhere bright minutes tremblingly thrill. What we could have been is…
-
I’m Bad at Photoshop, but: Barbacoa
Picture a soccer mom. She is wearing a purple sweater. She has tightly cropped hair and a hankering to speak to your manager. She is fresh from the monthly PTA meeting and still wearing her name tag. “My Name Is BARB” “Barb” is written professionally aggressive with a smiley face next to it. Barb won every…
-
A Creepy Howard Schultz President hiding in new Starbucks reusable cup sleeves
Is it just me, or does it feel like a creepy alternate reality Howard Schultz president from the Corporate Slippery Slope dimension is slowly invading these recyclable Starbucks reusable cup sleeves?
-
Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch is as Bad as Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone Reboot Will Be
The highly anticipated, recently released full-length interactive film from the makers of the provocative and disturbing British sci-fi television series Black Mirror, Bandersnatch, is a failure in many ways. It’s a confusingly, convolutedly, frustratingly, and unnecessarily complicated plot wrapped up in an innovative but disappointing format, where viewers have to make random and only occasionally…
-
Zero Stars: Buffalo Wild Wings review
Recently visited Buffalo Wild Wings to watch the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Great bar atmosphere and drink selection to go along with a rabid bunch of WKC fanz. Not enough kale. 0/5 ★s
-
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
“Ivan’s life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.” I underlined that sentence when I first read the novella The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy about a year and a half ago. I was prepping for a new World Literature class that I was soon to teach, and I…
-
Who, if I cried out—
Greetings, Lanciverse! I’m Merrill Lee Girardeau, and I’m a writer. [Writers Anonymous, together: Hi, Merrill Lee.] Lance asked me to write about poetry for the site, and here I am. Psyched to be here and connect with y’all. These posts will document my attempts to stick to a writing regimen this year. The plan…
-
Gift Range Calculator for Fundraising
I wanted to make a clean and easy online gift range calculator for my own fundraising. Then I realized that all of the nonprofits, individuals, and development directors I know who raise donations. So I called up my friend Gab Aguirre (who may well translate my soon-to-be-debut novel into Spanish). He’s an engineer and a…
-
Man and Serpent by Aesop
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading Man and Serpent by Aesop. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my own stories…
-
15 Connecticut literary agents who are looking for new writers
As I’m finishing up my fifth novel, the time has come for me to search once more for literary agents and some of them are Connecticut literary agents. It seems kind of pointless for me to put in all of this work to find Connecticut literary agents and share it with no one. So I…
-
15 Colorado literary agents looking for new writers
As I’m finishing up my fifth novel, the time has come for me to search once more for literary agents and some of them are Colorado literary agents. It seems kind of pointless for me to put in all of this work to find Colorado literary agents and share it with no one. So I…