It’s April, which means baby animals, Earth Day, sunshine, and poetry. (If this list isn’t gritty enough for you, try October, month of blindness awareness, pizza, opals, and pagan celebrations.) April is a good month for poets. We can sit on the porch, wear sunglasses, and write. Winter gets me into the bad habits of watching lots … Continue reading »
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Writing Prompts from Redaction! pt. 2
To continue the thread of Amy’s post re: writing prompts from our writing group, here are some flotsam & some jetsam. As an imagist poet, the series of concrete image writing prompts we utilized throughout the summer were not only handy, but miraculous: 5 concrete images on the topic “Friday Night” (I did more than … Continue reading »
Chett Tiller: Lies A Lot
Chett Tiller is named after a grandfather who he never met and raised to be a scientist or a mathematician for NASA. Unlike NASA, Chett has proved that there’s life on Mars, little green life that wants to turn your brains into some kind of delicious and gray empanada. He is, after all, an investigator … Continue reading »
Eben Fenton: Proscicles
Eben Bruce Fenton grew up with animals and one sister who still wants a tiny bluish box to translate the yellow dog’s tremulous whimpers. Eben reads prose to ignore the antic warnings. As penance he labors bent across minutia-based fiction in a lightless downstairs apartment overseen by two black eyed and quiet Daschunds. He speaks … Continue reading »
Jesse Rice-Evans: Good at Talking
Jesse Rice-Evans is a lapsed Catholic with a penchant for nectarines, community acupuncture, catnip and, like any self-respecting poet, sunsets. She writes surrealist and imagistic prose poetry about myth, magic, sex & food. She also writes critical cultural essays that moulder on her hard drive and quickly dissolve into untimeliness. She is our event coordinator … Continue reading »
