Also, recently 24-7prose has been raiding my archives. They also reminded everyone that I have a poetry collection for sale. Though now the price is a measly $0.99 rather than the original $2.99 This post has been equal parts gratitude and marketing. You’re welcome.
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The Importance of Punctuation in Poetry (2013)
So, yesterday Renarrate asked me what I meant by saying punctuation can be powerful, so we’re going to look at one of my old Haiku poems. I was ridiculously infatuated with E. E. Cummings at the time (still am to a degree), and was absolutely blown over with my own cleverness. I’ve since realized that …
The Best Part of Waking Up (2015)
Coffee stocks are up this week, according to the muted business news in the cafe I had breakfast in. And, I can’t say they’re wrong. Had three cups myself this morning.Just popped into work long enough to restart some computers to finalize their updates, now I’m watching some A.O.L. Executive mumble that merging paid streaming …
Talking about why love poems are boring, and why they don’t have to be. (2013)
Tumblr, you and I need to have a talk. But Stephen, what do we need to talk about? Also, we are Legion. I’m gonna sideline that last comment, but you might want that looked at. We need to talk about poetry, or to be more specific, we need to talk about love poems. I’ve been …
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Talking About How to Write Poetry (2013)
Kayla Ancrum answered a question here that inspired this whole thing. The crux of the question is “How do you write poems?” Poetically, I could say to write poems your swish around all the roiling emotions you’ve got sloshing around inside you and spit them up into perfectly worded lines and metaphors, but that wouldn’t …
Synthetic Translations. (2014)
This would be a someone amusing and illuminating demonstration of the side effects of using Google Translate or other such tools for the purposes of writing in another language. The original: I know nothing like you. Your words have this alien bent;put me in mind of that tornado roar,that we gave freight trains to harness …
Sometimes I think God chants silently at night in the hopes that we are real. (2014)
In these past few days I’ve had more people in my bed. They’re sleeping. You’re happy, you’re happy with this. You’ve got those old home creaks in your deep breath sleep, that pilot light click and old pipe rattle, that old floor-board stretch and sigh and… That Mississippi flow, that arterial… Hold that timber in …
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Poetry Facts: Special Edition! (2014)
And, they all start with “and”I’ve discovered this little man tapping old type-writer keys in four part rhythm where my heart should be,and he’s typing all the things I say to you in the darkness,and I don’t know that he’s ever felt anything,maybe moist. What I’m saying is that I have this habit of habiting …
Masculine (2015)
Sometimes in the mornings I stare at myself in the mirror. It isn’t vanity that drives this, as I sit there picking apart all the scars on my skin, how my teeth are never white like other peoples, how the shape of my face is wrong, how my stomach has grown, how thin my hair …
Even more poetry facts: (2014)
Fact # 1: But really, in highschool I used to carry around this collection of poems, and if I could turn the subject in that direction, I’d show them off, and most people really enjoyed them, or seemed to, or were incredibly polite, or had no taste. But all I ever really wanted to do …
