The prose of Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then has a frustrated and frustrating music, the rhythm of minds trying to resolve the past and the present and memories that might be fantasies, likely are fantasies, or may be the future.…
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The Heavy and the Light in Poetry
by ekswitaj •
I am troubled and challenged by Hannah Gamble’s How to Write a Good Rape/ Suicide/ Break-Up/ Genocide Poem, or Lightness as the Necessary Companion to All That’s Sad and Disturbing. Troubled because if we react to unrelenting sadness and…
So What If Poetry Is Dead?
by ekswitaj •
The latest round of poetry-is-dead/no-it-isn’t (are we up to one-a-month yet?) kicked off with a silly article in The Washington Post responding to Richard Blanco’s inaugural poem. As might be expected, such a brightly silly piece flying in such a…
Wrapping Up #DigiWriMo
by ekswitaj •
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Duck Digital Writing One Digital writing can only persist if it is shifted between media as technology shifts. There is a beauty in this ephemerality and changeability. Two What are words? on Prezi Three…