Sasha Fletcher's Blog, page 3
June 23, 2011
GOSH I AM SORRY I HAVE BEEN SO NEGLECTFUL
April 2, 2011
the return of things that well whatever anyway
So lots of things have happened around here I guess and while this would be the place and time to mention them I have decided to not do that at all!
I am still working on the book. It is coming along. I need to cut 2 poems and seriously reconsider 2 other poems and then there are 2 poems that I need to play with how they're ordered or they might need to get cut, even though I think they are pretty swell. In other news it's baseball season. It is difficult to find shoes that fit me right especially since I do not like stores because whatever, the internet.
Mostly though I've been watching Adventure Time. Also I've been writing poems and getting sick. I had a migraine from 9-5 yesterday. I am thinking about the future. The future is a thing that does not actually exist but I am going to go get my dvd player from my old roomate and that will be neat. Last night we watched a really awful werewolf movie but we made pretty good french bread pizza and also the Phillies won. In addition, Bats Out of Hell is awesome but could have totally lost some stories in the third quarter. But I feel like the last two stories in Captain Maximus could have gone too. But whatever.
I am still working on the book. It is coming along. I need to cut 2 poems and seriously reconsider 2 other poems and then there are 2 poems that I need to play with how they're ordered or they might need to get cut, even though I think they are pretty swell. In other news it's baseball season. It is difficult to find shoes that fit me right especially since I do not like stores because whatever, the internet.
Mostly though I've been watching Adventure Time. Also I've been writing poems and getting sick. I had a migraine from 9-5 yesterday. I am thinking about the future. The future is a thing that does not actually exist but I am going to go get my dvd player from my old roomate and that will be neat. Last night we watched a really awful werewolf movie but we made pretty good french bread pizza and also the Phillies won. In addition, Bats Out of Hell is awesome but could have totally lost some stories in the third quarter. But I feel like the last two stories in Captain Maximus could have gone too. But whatever.
December 11, 2010
RAISE YOUR HANDS, PILGRM.
TABLE OF CONTENTS [thus far]
my eyes have seen the dawning...............................................................................1
let me tell you about my day....................................................................................2
like teeth singing......................................................................................................3
jawbone....................................................................................................................4
birds flying south......................................................................................................5
but it's alright...........................................................................................................6
all hands and the cook..............................................................................................7
city living..................................................................................................................8
i can see your bones from here.................................................................................9
torch song................................................................................................................10
abide with me...........................................................................................................11
it's not a snowstorm it's a shipwreck......................................................................12
let me tell you about my boat..................................................................................13
wake up your saints and settle down for the night.................................................15
lead me to water lord i sure am thirsty...................................................................16
it is going to be a good year.....................................................................................18
tightrope...................................................................................................................19
mama don't care if you ain't a preacher so long as you say your prayers..............20
some accounts of travelers on legends and fables..................................................21
i have got my suitcase, my starry crown.................................................................23
prove it.....................................................................................................................24
if that is what it takes..............................................................................................25
poem called 'a grand pronouncement'...................................................................26
some accounts of travelers on legends and fables.................................................27
this is what it has come to......................................................................................28
trouble! o trouble! ..................................................................................................30
almost killed me......................................................................................................31
i will be going away.................................................................................................33
bedtime stories.......................................................................................................34
meet me here at dawn............................................................................................35
you are a beauty and i am alright...........................................................................36
woe is me.................................................................................................................37
two or three nocturnes...........................................................................................38
after all is said and done.........................................................................................40
well that's just it isn't it? ........................................................................................42
the sky is falling......................................................................................................44
my eyes have seen the dawning...............................................................................1
let me tell you about my day....................................................................................2
like teeth singing......................................................................................................3
jawbone....................................................................................................................4
birds flying south......................................................................................................5
but it's alright...........................................................................................................6
all hands and the cook..............................................................................................7
city living..................................................................................................................8
i can see your bones from here.................................................................................9
torch song................................................................................................................10
abide with me...........................................................................................................11
it's not a snowstorm it's a shipwreck......................................................................12
let me tell you about my boat..................................................................................13
wake up your saints and settle down for the night.................................................15
lead me to water lord i sure am thirsty...................................................................16
it is going to be a good year.....................................................................................18
tightrope...................................................................................................................19
mama don't care if you ain't a preacher so long as you say your prayers..............20
some accounts of travelers on legends and fables..................................................21
i have got my suitcase, my starry crown.................................................................23
prove it.....................................................................................................................24
if that is what it takes..............................................................................................25
poem called 'a grand pronouncement'...................................................................26
some accounts of travelers on legends and fables.................................................27
this is what it has come to......................................................................................28
trouble! o trouble! ..................................................................................................30
almost killed me......................................................................................................31
i will be going away.................................................................................................33
bedtime stories.......................................................................................................34
meet me here at dawn............................................................................................35
you are a beauty and i am alright...........................................................................36
woe is me.................................................................................................................37
two or three nocturnes...........................................................................................38
after all is said and done.........................................................................................40
well that's just it isn't it? ........................................................................................42
the sky is falling......................................................................................................44
November 29, 2010
audible humming
i don't often post on this thing. most of the time i don't really know what to post is a big part of it i think. so i guess i am just going to write a long rambling thing about my thoughts and feelings.
things are good overall. living with skyler is great. tonight we had indian food. it was awesome. we should probably not order out much. which i mean i guess we do it between 2 and 6 times a month, which isn't that often maybe, but whatever. we [i] need to eat better. i need to exercise. because saying this in a public forum is helpful and constructive. i wish i was really really absorbed by a tv show right now. i am reading this great book called ORIENTAL TALES by margaret yourcenar right now. it is for an awesome class on linked/unified collections of poetry and fiction. so far i have mostly just liked the fiction.
part of me thinks i should submit more. mostly i guess i want everything here is ok picked up before i start putting too much of this new book out there. i am going to try to get a ruth lilly and fail. i have looked at their finalists and i do not think they will like me. i could use that prize money though.
josh bell told me the other day that awp claims this is the shittiest year for the job marker of teaching creative writing since awp started keeping track of these things which was probably 1992 or something, so whatever. speculative quantitative data can suck my dick. there is probably a better way of putting that, but hey.
i feel good about the new book. i feel really really good. there are things in there right now that might not belong, but i turn it in to workshop in a week so i'll just let the class figure that out. it's probably going to be around 50 pages. so us workshopping it may take something like 6 hours. josh bell will probably say funny things and then i will put them here on the internet and it will ruin his life.
i bought flannel sheets fr the bed when i went home for thanksgiving. also happy thanksgiving. also when i say i bought flannel sheets for the bed what i mean is that my mom bought us flannel sheets because she is rolling in that tenured faculty dough. which is still probably not enough money to fill a swimming pool. probably like a kiddie pool, like the one we had as kids with a whale head that you hooked up to the hose and it sprayed out a blowhole and this was all on the deck and i think my dad would put a tarp down and just sit in the shade with a book while my brother and i sat there shouting for an hour or hours or whatever how do you tell how time passes anyway? really. i mean it. it's hard. josh was telling me he doesn't have a watch or cell phone and so he's always really really early for stuff because he assumes that since he has no real way of keeping track of time outside his apartment where there is a clock and a computer that he will be late. so he's early. hopefully soon he'll finish his second book and someone will publish it immediately and then i can read it because i have been reading no planets strike something like once a month for almost two years now and i would just really like another book of his to read is all.
just read jason bredle's two books. i think i liked his first one better, but either way i think he's awesome and am real real excited for magic helicopter to put out his third book. i hear if you preorder it you get a free pair of glow in the dark vampire teeth until they don't have any more to give.
should probably have put more hyperlinks in this post. whatever.
friday morning me and ben mirov and eric amling are headed to north carolina to read poems out loud and get drunk. we are probably going to far a lot in the car. eric amling's girlfriend: i am, in advance of this probably occurrence, real real sorry.
things are good overall. living with skyler is great. tonight we had indian food. it was awesome. we should probably not order out much. which i mean i guess we do it between 2 and 6 times a month, which isn't that often maybe, but whatever. we [i] need to eat better. i need to exercise. because saying this in a public forum is helpful and constructive. i wish i was really really absorbed by a tv show right now. i am reading this great book called ORIENTAL TALES by margaret yourcenar right now. it is for an awesome class on linked/unified collections of poetry and fiction. so far i have mostly just liked the fiction.
part of me thinks i should submit more. mostly i guess i want everything here is ok picked up before i start putting too much of this new book out there. i am going to try to get a ruth lilly and fail. i have looked at their finalists and i do not think they will like me. i could use that prize money though.
josh bell told me the other day that awp claims this is the shittiest year for the job marker of teaching creative writing since awp started keeping track of these things which was probably 1992 or something, so whatever. speculative quantitative data can suck my dick. there is probably a better way of putting that, but hey.
i feel good about the new book. i feel really really good. there are things in there right now that might not belong, but i turn it in to workshop in a week so i'll just let the class figure that out. it's probably going to be around 50 pages. so us workshopping it may take something like 6 hours. josh bell will probably say funny things and then i will put them here on the internet and it will ruin his life.
i bought flannel sheets fr the bed when i went home for thanksgiving. also happy thanksgiving. also when i say i bought flannel sheets for the bed what i mean is that my mom bought us flannel sheets because she is rolling in that tenured faculty dough. which is still probably not enough money to fill a swimming pool. probably like a kiddie pool, like the one we had as kids with a whale head that you hooked up to the hose and it sprayed out a blowhole and this was all on the deck and i think my dad would put a tarp down and just sit in the shade with a book while my brother and i sat there shouting for an hour or hours or whatever how do you tell how time passes anyway? really. i mean it. it's hard. josh was telling me he doesn't have a watch or cell phone and so he's always really really early for stuff because he assumes that since he has no real way of keeping track of time outside his apartment where there is a clock and a computer that he will be late. so he's early. hopefully soon he'll finish his second book and someone will publish it immediately and then i can read it because i have been reading no planets strike something like once a month for almost two years now and i would just really like another book of his to read is all.
just read jason bredle's two books. i think i liked his first one better, but either way i think he's awesome and am real real excited for magic helicopter to put out his third book. i hear if you preorder it you get a free pair of glow in the dark vampire teeth until they don't have any more to give.
should probably have put more hyperlinks in this post. whatever.
friday morning me and ben mirov and eric amling are headed to north carolina to read poems out loud and get drunk. we are probably going to far a lot in the car. eric amling's girlfriend: i am, in advance of this probably occurrence, real real sorry.
November 24, 2010
new review
josh schneider just wrote a review of my novella and i thought i should share it.
in december j.a. and i [by and i i mean j.a.] are [is] going to release the pdf chapbook that came with all pre-orders as an html ebook for everyone to read because we [he] believe[s] in the spirit of giving.
the thesis is coming along. feeling pretty good about it. going to do some laundry and pack fr thanksgiving break. hope everyone is doing well. should really start posting more. maybe longer rambling things that don't have a point. that way it can be just like my writing. everybody wins!
in december j.a. and i [by and i i mean j.a.] are [is] going to release the pdf chapbook that came with all pre-orders as an html ebook for everyone to read because we [he] believe[s] in the spirit of giving.
the thesis is coming along. feeling pretty good about it. going to do some laundry and pack fr thanksgiving break. hope everyone is doing well. should really start posting more. maybe longer rambling things that don't have a point. that way it can be just like my writing. everybody wins!
November 8, 2010
current table of contents fr the thesis
my eyes have seen the dawning
let me tell you about my day
like teeth singing
jawbone
short adventures with shipwrecks
but it's alright
all hands and the cook
city living
i can see your bones from here
torch song
abide with me
it is going to be a good year
now we sit us down to eat
short adventures with rivers
after all is said and done
a report from the settlers on their progress
some accounts of travelers on legends and fables
i have got my suitcase, my starry crown
prove it
if that is what it takes
poem called 'a grand pronouncement'
no news today
some accounts of travelers on legends and fables
this is what it has come to
throw your arms around me to the sea and back
almost killed me
i will be going away
meet me here at dawn
my mouth is full of trouble
mama don't care if you ain't a preacher so long as you say your prayers
trouble! o trouble!
a pile of bad news
two or three nocturnes
i apologize
the sky is falling
let me tell you about my day
like teeth singing
jawbone
short adventures with shipwrecks
but it's alright
all hands and the cook
city living
i can see your bones from here
torch song
abide with me
it is going to be a good year
now we sit us down to eat
short adventures with rivers
after all is said and done
a report from the settlers on their progress
some accounts of travelers on legends and fables
i have got my suitcase, my starry crown
prove it
if that is what it takes
poem called 'a grand pronouncement'
no news today
some accounts of travelers on legends and fables
this is what it has come to
throw your arms around me to the sea and back
almost killed me
i will be going away
meet me here at dawn
my mouth is full of trouble
mama don't care if you ain't a preacher so long as you say your prayers
trouble! o trouble!
a pile of bad news
two or three nocturnes
i apologize
the sky is falling
October 13, 2010
things!
I did a reading! It starts with me reading from THE BATTLEFIELD WHERE THE MOON SAYS I LOVE YOU. The first poem I read has audience participation and you can't really hear them but if it's loud enough you sort of can. I stumble a little, then I don't. My bad dudes.
In other news, EVERYTHING HERE IS OK was a finalist for octopus again. Someday soon someone will want it and that'll be sweet too. But being a finalist is pretty sweet.
I've been waking up late. Or getting out of bed late. Sometimes these are the same things.
These poems are awesome. Ben Fama pointed them out to me. Hot damn.
I am working on a poem that starts "george washington chopped down a cherry tree because he needed some teeth but all we got is wolves and crows."
I am reading at this event in Brooklyn on Sunday. Sunday is the second game of the National League Conference Series. I am going to shower and probably reheat some fried rice assuming it has not gone bad. If it has, I will have me some Kraft Mac'n'Cheese.
In other news, EVERYTHING HERE IS OK was a finalist for octopus again. Someday soon someone will want it and that'll be sweet too. But being a finalist is pretty sweet.
I've been waking up late. Or getting out of bed late. Sometimes these are the same things.
These poems are awesome. Ben Fama pointed them out to me. Hot damn.
I am working on a poem that starts "george washington chopped down a cherry tree because he needed some teeth but all we got is wolves and crows."
I am reading at this event in Brooklyn on Sunday. Sunday is the second game of the National League Conference Series. I am going to shower and probably reheat some fried rice assuming it has not gone bad. If it has, I will have me some Kraft Mac'n'Cheese.
September 13, 2010
oh this and that
wrote two poems since i got back. mostly i've been building furniture. on the other hand, i've done massive amounts of rewrites on other poems and also the two new ones are i think pretty good. the are called ABIDE WITH ME and also TORCH SONG.
things are alright here. time to make lunch here. been reading and rereading 31 poems by dean young. first time i ever got excited about dean young. i am excited by a lot of this book. some of it not so much at all. but a lot of it. reading and rereading CRUSH and NO PLANETS STRIKE. these books are probably going to guide me through this thesis a lot. reading a lot of emily pettit and ben mirov. have you been reading emily pettit and ben mirov? this is a legitimate question.
things are alright here. time to make lunch here. been reading and rereading 31 poems by dean young. first time i ever got excited about dean young. i am excited by a lot of this book. some of it not so much at all. but a lot of it. reading and rereading CRUSH and NO PLANETS STRIKE. these books are probably going to guide me through this thesis a lot. reading a lot of emily pettit and ben mirov. have you been reading emily pettit and ben mirov? this is a legitimate question.
wrote two poems since i got back. mostly i've been buildi...
wrote two poems since i got back. mostly i've been building furniture. on the other hand, i've done massive amounts of rewrites on other poems and also the two new ones are i think pretty good. the are called ABIDE WITH ME and also TORCH SONG.
things are alright here. time to make lunch here. been reading and rereading 31 poems by dean young. first time i ever got excited about dean young. i am excited by a lot of this book. some of it not so much at all. but a lot of it. reading and rereading...
things are alright here. time to make lunch here. been reading and rereading 31 poems by dean young. first time i ever got excited about dean young. i am excited by a lot of this book. some of it not so much at all. but a lot of it. reading and rereading...
August 26, 2010
i need to get back into exercising
today i built the couch. right now skyler is in a box sailing across the kitchen. tomorrow i will show you what that looks like. a few minutes ago we ran the toaster oven to burn off what was in it. we did. it is gross. it smells like burnt synthetic gross stuff and also the smoke alarm went off and we are terrible neighbors but also i do not care. i need some pants tapered. i started two poems today. one is called TORCH SONG and the other might be called ABIDE WITH ME. skyler just said I AM ...
