Dropped off Anand at programming Python camp, ensconced at Fairgrounds, doing a little more writing on the Patreon story. ***** The central quadrangle was suitably festive for the opening week dance; the University had hired a troupe of luminous Feyrians to dance glittering acrobatics above the crowd – with hundreds of the small beings hard […]
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I’ve just been so sleepy the last few days, not sure why. Grief from losing Ellie, probably, along with coming down from the exhaustion of Clarion West teaching. I slept ten hours last night, and I could’ve slept more. But I’m a few days behind on the Patreon story, and I owe a story to
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Yesterday was a really nice day — I spent most of it alternating weeding, planting dahlias (long overdue, but I figure it’s still better to get them in the ground than not), and finishing reading Ruthanna Emrys Gordon‘s _The Half-Built Garden_, which I just loved to pieces. It’s a little surreal reading it, actually —
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Benjamin Rosenbaum and I were talking to the Clarion students yesterday about the writing life and how to make it sustainable long-term — we told them our goal for ourselves, and hopefully for them, was “a sustainable praxis for yourself that makes your life good.” We talked about other things too, like goal-setting, and how
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We did idea-jam at Clarion today, and Ben made us try to come up with 30 first lines in 10 minutes. I only managed 20! But here they are, in case they’re amusing to you. ***** 1. She leapt into the darkness, gladly. 2. Somehow her bra had made it into his laundry basket; it
Benjamin Rosenbaum and I are deep in Clarion teaching, which is pretty all-consuming, and if you’re waiting on something from me, you’re probably going to need to wait a little longer — we’re working very long days and just carving out enough time for sleeping is a bit of a challenge! But it should get
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I’m working on a new project, inspired by all the poets I met at the South Asia Institute _Testimonies on Paper_ exhibit. I was listening to them read their beautiful work, and found myself thinking about saris. I’m going to try writing some sari poems, which might turn into a sari poem chapbook? We’ll see.
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When I was working on Bodies in Motion, I was in grad school, and broken-hearted, so I was going to bed very early (8 p.m.) because I had nothing else I wanted to do in the evenings. While it was miserable emotionally, this turned out to be terrific for productive writing. I developed a ritual:
I may post some of the assignments and such here, if I think they’re potentially useful to others. Obviously, nothing confidential to the class and our students’ work! ***** Good morning, students! I haven’t discussed this assignment with Benjamin yet, because he’s still asleep, but I wanted to get it down before I forgot about
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the first raspberries are here, sweet and slightly overripe I’ve been traveling; I do that a lot. but now I’m here for at least four weeks in a row and I have *plans* for the garden mostly digging out overgrown weeds. but I will reward myself with taking photos and cutting flowers for the house
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