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Saturday, June 17, 2017

Supporting the Artist

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Hello, This is a rare direst communication and ask to my followers on this blog, rather than the usual essays or poems or photos. I rarely ...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Struggle to Find Hope

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a Spiral Dance essay I slept well, but woke up early. Perhaps, as a result, or perhaps not, I am feeling rather cynical this morning. Reme...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Why Do You Write the Way You Write?

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Lots of writers ask me why I write the way I do. Especially poets. There is an assumption behind the question: that writing is an act of wil...
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Friday, November 25, 2016

Gratitudes 2016

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Gratitudes 2016 Every year I write Gratitudes instead of New Year's Resolution. This has been my practice for a number of years. I am ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology

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QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology I have several poems in this anthology by disabled LGBTQ* poets, non-fiction writers, essayists, acade...
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Saturday, April 16, 2016

Playing and Making

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Music performance and composition: Lots of us play musical instruments, or sing. I play adequately, and I sing well (albeit not this week,...
Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Pacem In Terris

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Pacem In Terris Peace is not merely the absence of war. Peace is not merely tranquility, or serenity, although those are also sublime. ...
Monday, March 14, 2016

What I'm For, or How To Discover Your Purpose In Life By Failing At Everything Else

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When I was young, I wanted to grow up to be a scientist. I spent several years on that, training in the sciences, especially the earth sci...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Trapped in a motel in Escanaba

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[/rant mode/ alert] And now I feel like crap. I was feeling okay awhile ago, but then feelings rush over you like the weather, and your in...
Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Winter Waters

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walking by the lake blue-white in half-melte distant scraping resolves to sails further out, skaters with parasails in just enough wind, ...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Why Genre Fiction Is Better Than Mainstream Fiction

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That title is my opening salvo, bound to be contested by writers invested in believing that the mainstream literary realistic fiction that t...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Writing: On Not Being Able to Fit Into the Boxes

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I have difficulty even seeing, much less respecting and obeying, what some writers and editors feel are hard-and-fast lines between poetry, ...
Monday, February 15, 2016

Boulders

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The lawyers call you to tell you you're doomed. There's no recourse. You have to start all over again. But the task is Sisyphean. ...
Monday, February 08, 2016

Creativity: Observing Improvisation

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Observations on making art in the moment of making it: When I'm improvising music, or playing music in general, I'm often making l...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

Who Are We, and Where Are We Going

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a Spiral Dance essay It's pathetic, I suppose, that I'm now more comfortable in anonymous hotel rooms than anywhere I'm suppos...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Floating in Space

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I suppose my mood is being affected by a lot of dying right now. I'm reading death poems by the saints and angels, the Zen masters wh...
Monday, January 11, 2016

Wizardry 2016: Notes

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Reminder: What I need more of in my life, what I need to remember, is wild magic, not rule bound and law bound magic. Everything you need ...

Gratitudes 2015

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It is very difficult for me to write Gratitudes for 2015. I won't pretend otherwise. I may have to start very small. (I'm feeling ...
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