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April 24, 2014
How Antonin Artaud Came to Influence the Beats
Antonin Artaud had great fashion sense. Bronx-born writer Carl Solomon joined the United States Maritime Service in 1944 and traveled overseas to Paris, where he was encountered Surrealism and Dadaism. When he came back to the US, he voluntarily admitted himself to a New Jersey psychiatric hospital as Dadaist expression of being beat, being conquered, […]
April 21, 2014
Redeemer Writers Group Meets Tonight
Hope you had a fantastic Easter! Tonight (7-9pm) I’m leading a writers workshop with Nana and Maurice at the Redeemer Offices, 1359 Broadway, 4th Floor, Main Conference Room. Admission is free. Please bring 1-2 pages of your writing for critique.Filed under: Faith, Writing Tagged: Redeemer Writers Group, writing workshop
April 17, 2014
Before the Beats, Rimbaud Had a “Bohemian Life”
Photo by Etienne Carjat (1871) Rimbaud’s kinda cute, eh? Before Jack Kerouac coined the term “Beat Generation” during a conversation on the Lost Generation with fellow writer John Clellon Holmes, before he went on the road and lived a bohemian life, he attended (and dropped out of) Columbia University. It was through his Columbia connections—which […]
April 16, 2014
The Feast Day of Saint Bernadette
image via Wikipedia Bernadeta Sobiróus was only thirty-five years old when she passed away. A miller’s daughter from Lourdes, France, Bernadette was fourteen years old when she first saw a “small young lady” appear to her while she was out fetching firewood in Massabielle. This apparition requested that a chapel be built in the grotto near […]
Writing Wednesday: Are Writers Right or Left Brained?
via sommer+sommer Years ago, I read somewhere that right-brained people are more likely to put their right shoe on first. Since being right-brained is associated with creativity, naturally I began telling myself to put my right shoe on first whenever I left the house. How left-brained of me! Using facts — instead of intuiting — […]
April 10, 2014
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Music, when Soft Voices die”
Portrait of Shelley by Alfred Clint (1819) When you think Beat Generation do you also think Romanticism? No?? Don’t get tripped up by the overuse of the word “neon” and other supposed markers of so-called Beat poetry. Think more about their shared notions of colloquial language, intuition over reason, and spontaneity. Beat poetry is a […]
April 9, 2014
Writing Wednesday: Keep In Touch with Your Alumni Network
One of the best decisions I ever made was attending Scripps College. I accepted their offer of enrollment sight unseen. I had never even been in California before arriving a few days before orientation! I made so many great friends — and I’m STILL making new friends because of Scripps. A few years after graduating, […]
April 3, 2014
Allen Ginsberg’s William Blake Vision
William Blake’s illustrated “Ah! Sun-Flower” I’m kicking off this National Poetry Month series with William Blake for reasons that will soon become obvious. In 1948, when he was in his early twenties, Allen Ginsberg experience a supernatural vision. He was alone in his Harlem apartment, reading William Blake, when the Romantic poet appeared to him. […]
April 2, 2014
“We’ll Keep at It, Anyway,” Responds Author to DBW Report That Most Authors Make Less than $1000/Year
via Mediabsitro Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond of the excellent writing and publishing blog People Who Write gave a compelling response to Mediabistro’s depressing “Most Authors Make Less Than $1,000 a Year: DBW” post: We’ll keep at it, anyway…. Yes! Yes, we will. Nana, a friend of mine whom I met through a writing group, goes on […]
April 1, 2014
Kalo Mina and Happy National Poetry Month!
Happy National Poetry Month! I cannot believe it’s April already. The winter months feel like a blur of snow. While a lot of people complained about it, for some reason I just didn’t seem to mind this year. Maybe it matched my mood. Or maybe since I spend most of my time cooped up […]
