Today is a love poem (or an anti-love poem, whatever the hell that is), which is harder than it might seem at first glance, at least if you're going to be original in any way. Here's my entry. If the title is confusing, say it aloud a few times. Mime Is Tress Yser Your eyes … Continue reading Day 13
Some thoughts on Treme
So a couple of things before I start on this. 1. I don't believe in the concept of spoilers, so if you do, go away now. A story that's good isn't often spoiled, in my view, by learning plot points before you see them. That said, this is the first episode, so it's not like … Continue reading Some thoughts on Treme
Michael Specter on the Danger of Science Denial
Great video, in which Michael Specter takes apart the difference between distrust of corporations and governments and an unwillingness to look at scientific evidence.
Day 12
My father was a nomad, and a son of a nomad. He lived in every small town and on many of the farms outside San Antonio as a kid. His father was a fiddler and journeyman carpenter, and often housed his family in the old houses on many family farms while he remodeled them. Once … Continue reading Day 12
Day 11
I stretched the prompt a little today--instead of using the phrase "the last" in my title, I just used the word last. I've never written a "13 Ways" poem before, and I used some of my tweets from last year as sections. I'm pretty sure I'll be changing the first section at some point. 13 … Continue reading Day 11
Poetic Lives Online
Most of the excitement this week is in Denver at the AWP Conference, but there's still plenty to talk about in poetry. For instance, have you been keeping up with our National Poetry Month project? We're only a third of a way through April, so there's plenty of time to catch up on your reading. … Continue reading Poetic Lives Online
Day 10
Write a horror poem. Except I don't really do horror. Never liked horror movies--the closest I've ever come to liking one was "Shaun of the Dead." Even monster movies didn't do anything for me as a kid, and today's torture porn? Ugh. No thanks. But it turns out I did have something to pull from … Continue reading Day 10
Celebrating 300 Years of Copyright
Counterpoint asked "a lot of people" (as Cory Doctorow put it) to reflect on the world of copyright on the 300th anniversary of the passage of Queen Anne's Law, and to look at how copyright is being used (or abused) today, as well as how it might need to evolve. I've only read a handful … Continue reading Celebrating 300 Years of Copyright
Day 9
Today is a self-portrait, and so I decided to go back to some ground I covered 8 or 9 years ago when I discovered that my father had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease since, like my father, like all of us really, who I am is tied up with the workings of my brain. … Continue reading Day 9
Day 8
Thursdays are going to be brutal for me in getting this done this month, mostly because I have such a long workday, and fitting a poem into an already taxing schedule is rough. Today's challenge was to write a poem about a tool, and while I admit I was considering making a joke of it, … Continue reading Day 8
Another Poem to Love 