Monthly Archives: April 2012
Tuesday, 4/10
Anthony Carelli is coming to campus today! Fasten your bow ties, poetry fans! So; I found the high school poems but have been reluctant to share them. They make me cringe a bit; it’s like looking through old photos of a … Continue reading
Monday, 4/9
My Stockton students did some freewriting in class on Friday. As I was fretting away a freewrite with them, suddenly this phrase was set down as if by an unseen force, a fragment which has stood out from the rest … Continue reading
Easter Annotation, 4/8
Rich Kathy Graber Poetry Workshop April 8, 2012 Fragmentation/Juxtaposition: Creating Completeness from Collage (A Collage) Tony Hoagland, in his essay “Fragment, Juxtaposition, and Completeness,” reminds us of the tension that is generated between fragments that have been brought into a … Continue reading
April, 4/7
The literary magazine has returned from the printer! I had a poem published –– –– a slightly revised version of the poem about the whale that I wrote the first week of Kathy‘s class this semester. For those not in … Continue reading
April, 4/6
Good Friday to ye! I am off to class today at Stockton; then hoping to check out the new student art gallery afters –– the one built atop a pool there. Today’s poem was written/”published” last year (as an audio … Continue reading
Thursday, 4/5
I have to drive 2-1/2 hours up the parkway to Bergen County for a noon-thirty meeting today; then back. Last June, my family went further than North Jersey –– drove all the way to Amherst, Mass. The second poem I … Continue reading
April, 4/4
Two years ago, I think I wrote an original poem every day in April; I think it was because Dan Sanchez was doing it, and I thought, “Well, if it’s good enough for Dan Sanchez, then!” For some reason I … Continue reading
April, 4/3
I found a cache of poetry on my hard drive from college. I know there’s another, buried in a folder within folders, from high school, but I haven’t had the nerve to open it yet; to go diving into that … Continue reading
Monday, 4/2
I’ve started looking through some old poems & poetic prose-bits stashed on my computer; things that have somehow survived being transferred from one computer to the next during my roaring twenties. Folders have just gotten buried in deeper folders; it’s … Continue reading
First, April.
Ohmigod, it’s April! What happened to March? Wasn’t it just the end of February, though? I had a busy week: left me dizzy & weak. Tuesday, Laura McCullough came to school for a lively reading/discussion with our visiting poet-professor Kathy … Continue reading
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