Tag: poetry
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Be Attitude • from 54 poems at 27
Of the rich who play at art in their rich retired homes Of the powerful who play at peace in what are pre-war times Of the healthy men who quote trite anecdotes to sick Of the presidents whose precedent is kindness-killed-by-Dick Of the sober in the streets who’ve never bought a drink whose pride is…
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Proficy • from the 54 poems at 27
I am the unhirable. I am those who fit between one job report and the other, the taxes upon the poor that feed into Congress who feed into corporations that feed into the pockets of rich C.E.O.s I am chicken feed I guess. I am the student loaned out to banks for a time, times,…
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The 54 Poems I Wrote at 27 …ish
After much deliberation, I decided to keep the whole tradition of doubling my age and writing that many poems in a year. You’ll notice that April Thirtyish has already passed, so I’m late in posting. I’ve gotten about half of them written and will begin posting this week. I started this whole mess with 46…
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My Commentary on the Slice of Life Ballad
The following comes from the original email in which I delivered my manuscript to Ellie for the Slice of Life ballad. I knew that my work can be kind of dense at times, so I used the postscript of the document to write her an explanation. It explains the major thrust of the poem :: Hey sister, Though…
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Slice of Life has hit Bookstores!
Remember that transmedia project from 2013? Well the Slice of Life book is now available in print! I worked on the Slice of Life book in between projects the summer of 2013, turning a ballad into a polyform poem that would represent the whole of the project. The book, as you’ll see below, is something like…
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Fairytale Photographer for Kids :: The Chicken Steeper
A STORY NO ONE CAN DUPLICATE… Remember our custom-made fairytale photographer? In Mark’s words: The thought was simple: a series that caters fairy stories to the personality of your child. We’d tell each stories using words and photographs, just like we did with Cold Brewed. This isn’t something I’ve seen done before… and I’m all about trying…
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New Stories and Poems
Hey all you vagabonds and wild people, quick note: I’ve updated the bibliography with some recent sales, added some new poems and a fairly old Gergian fantasy story about pirates. Hopefully I’ll have some of my new literary fiction to put up here soon. See some of you tonight at drDoctor. Carry on. Join this…
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In Good Humor and Craft: The drDOCTOR readings
In my experience, I’ve found one of two problems in many literary crowds and clubs: they either take themselves too seriously or not seriously enough. The former never approach their craft with a healthy dose of self-depreciation and humor – let’s just be honest, creative writing is a strange thing to do in 21st-century America. The latter seldom try…
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On Your Calling in Life
No one, not even Milton, ever made a living off of writing good poetry. Only those who were patronized by the rich could ever afford to do only poetry, but even then they did not generate an income off of the sale of their poetry. That’s a historical “never,” which are pretty hard to come…
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Creativity Prompt: Incarcerate
In which I attempt to prompt creativity from a readership of creatives…
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Narrative Distance in Relationships
There remains a narrative distance between one and another that others have called “relationship.” This narrative distance shows the relative disconnect between the tale we try to tell for one and another — I am an author for yours, You, an author for mine. Father to son, son to father The space between spouses (long…
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In The Snare
Poetry ain’t the sort of thing made, formed, or even envisioned, neither built nor bartered to obtain neither paint nor produce. We catch her fetch her butter flies lightning bugs mermaid Mew (2) red fox White Stag in a wood covered moss light streaming in from some unknown heavens when caught, she blesses us with…