January 2012
20 posts
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Hook
Everything has rhythm. The slap of the too blue sea against the hull. The clink of the rigging, the straining groan of the lines. The rumpling of the sails, straining to catch the wind. The gruff huffing of his men being men. All keeping time with the tick tock of the alligator’s tail, flicking at the water below.
On days like this, when the sun is warm on his shoulder and the sea sparkles,...
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“It is quite a haunting feeling to write beautifully and profoundly about my own...”
– Lorenz Dumuk (discovering one’s own truth)
WE NOW NEED 200,000 SIGNATURES. ACTA GOES INTO... →
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“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work,...”
– Mary Oliver (via carsinmycoffee)
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You're Late
Begin at the beginning
and then propel yourself forward
into the nothing that is the future
forming, twisting chaos from which all is born. Jump back,
from end to start. See cause and effect dance.
You’re late, of course, again, for work, for school,
for that kiss you never stole from the girl
who held your heart in the third grade,
when you still kinda believed girls and kissing
...
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Z-composition →
Hey, all you artists out there, Z-composition, a new literary journal about obscure mischief, organic phenomenon, decay and fragmentation of reanimation, and other such stuff is looking for someone to bid on artwork for their website banner.
Please reblog to get the word out.
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Happy Friday the 13th!
Have a great day and don’t get slaughtered by the guy in the hockey mask.
Cheers!
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“When I ask my students at the beginning of my Men and Masculinity course about...”
– (via hugoschwyzer)
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“Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops...”
– ~Gene Fowler
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“You are a perfectly acceptable human being right now, this minute. You are just...”
– Source: Fat Heffalump (via goodgirls-like-to-sin)
^ Sir is constantly telling me this.
(via kiriamaya)
December 2011
30 posts
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman
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“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via volstrektdom)
We Have No Secrets: Call For Submissions →
caitsmeissner:
Call For Submissions
Please spread this note far and wide to educators you know and love!
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Call for Submissions
Well&Often seeks poems and prose by educators for new book anthology.
Description
Well&Often, a Brooklyn-based press, seeks poetry and prose submissions for a new anthology that explores the relationship between writing and teaching. Using this...
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Here Comes the Sun
bright and yellow, glinting over the horizon, making the snow glare. Each step, brings the crunch, crunch of ice beneath my feet. Winter is a reprieve. We stand side-by-side, watching our breath curl, smoky, into the air, listening the whisk, whisk, whisk of the saw, the rich scent of sap perfuming as the tree collapses in a spray evergreen needles. Brother shoulders his shotgun takes hold of the...
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sereudipity asked: My goodness, I've just stumbled onto your blog accidentally, and am amazed at how beautifully you can write a poem about pie <3
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Broken Cuckoo Clock
tick tock cuckoo clock nailed to the wall, hands frozen in an upside down smile, but you still can hear the tock tick of the coo clock like the unbeat of the heart
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(I wrote this back in college as an assignment for class. Not my best poem, but I still like the tick tock rhythm of it.)
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so much joy it hurts: Jack Kerouac and Allen... →
kathleenjoy:
“Realize, Allen, that if all the world were green, there would be no such thing as the color green. Similarly, men cannot know what it is to be together without otherwise knowing what it is to be apart. If all the world were love, then, how could love exist? This is why we turn away from each…
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“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy
is to allow...”
– Gilda Radner (via ladyorlando5)
Mis Historietas →
juan-o:
I know most of my followers don´t speak Spanish but for those who do, I started a lil´blog where I post stuff I write, mostly short stories. I don´t have a whole lot of time to sit down and write but I try to do a little every day so I will posting new stuff every now and then. Those who read them AND understand them, I hope you like them.
I may have to stop being a lazy ass and start...
lilylive asked: Why does pecan pie have to taste so GOOD! :D
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An Ifrit in San Francisco by Andrea Blythe |... →
My poem, “An Ifrit in San Francisco,” is now up on Scheherezade’s Bequest #14.
Extracts from Emma Thompson’s diaries while... →
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cheapandjuicy:
thequietworld | cheia | frauleindrosselmeyer
Extracts from Emma Thompson’s diaries while shooting Sense and Sensibility, from ‘The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries,’ a rather wonderful book I just happened to find - in English - at the back of a second-hand shop near Rorschach.
Okay I know it’s possibly my favourite book and movie ever but...
Write something in my ask box and I'll write you a... →
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Thought for the day
gradnessmadness:
“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
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“The test of how racist you are is not how many people of color you can count as...”
– Deeply Embarrassed White People Talk Awkwardly About Race by Jen Graves
Interesting article. I’m learning more and more about how my staying silent on issues of race (merely because talking about it is uncomfortable) is actually an aspect of white privilege. I can stay silent, to ignore the...