Celia Lisset Alvarez's Blog, page 10

Another Blog about Writing?

I suppose it's pretty arrogant to add even more writing advice to the blogosphere—kind of the writing equivalent of using CFCs. However, after years (I won't calculate how many) of being able to teach only one creative writing class every now and again, I have to let it out. I suppose it's karmically no worse than if I had decided to blog about politics, or movies, or any other bloated topic.
Which brings me to my first lesson, one particularly suited to the post-blog era: though the story...

South Florida Edition of Poets and Artists

Check out the special South Florida issue of Poets and Artists at http://www.poetsandartists.com/index/.... It features work from locals such as Michael Hettich and Emma Trelles, and four new poems from me with SoFla themes as well as all the gorgeous photography and artwork Oranges & Sardines always has.

"Twilight"

I have a poem on the obsession with "Twilight" in the lastest issue of qarrtsiluni, the theme of which is "new classics." Check it out at: http://qarrtsiluni.com/2010/05/07/twi...

"Mesh and Lace"

I'm back on Fringe for their theme issue on work with a short story called "Mesh and Lace." It's a departure for me--I haven't published a story in years. The story is about a twenty-seven-year-old woman coming to terms with her job as a waitress in the diner next to the highschool she graduated from. She got pregnant on prom night, married, and, ten years later, is invited o a reunion. She the story at http://www.fringemagazine.org/lit/fic....

New Work Online

Haven't kept up with my Goodreads profile in a while, but, just in case anyone's out there, I have two new poems this year online: "Blackbirds," an experimental sestina at Fringe magazine (http://www.fringemagazine.org/lit/lon...) and "About That Gold Bikini," a persona poem about the famous scene in Return of the Jedi at BloodLotus (http://www.bloodlotus.org/).