Author Archives: Rich
The View Since Monday.
On Monday I had my final conference with Kathy Graber. The first thing she said to me when I entered her office was, “You have a real knack for creative nonfiction,” which was peculiar because I was taking her Poetry … Continue reading
On Revisions: A Re-visioning.
I am working on revisions for Kathy Graber’s class this weekend. I have a difficult time of it. Prose, for me, is simpler to reform. I can spot a stray sentence-hair that needs plucking. With poetry. Those stanzas. Fragments. Well. … Continue reading
Narrative Speed and Neutrinos; with a Digression on Daydreaming; see also “Birth Chart.”
I have been thinking a lot about the narrative and neutrinos (and the narrative of neutrinos) ever since that student’s presentation last week. Narrative speed, the relationship between the duration of the narrated––the (approximate) amount of time (presumably) covered by the … Continue reading
Come what May.
I didn’t get enough sleep last night to contend with you, new May month. Em writes, “There’s something about the end of a semester, even as an instructor. That whole whiff of possibility thing.” That is what I am thinking … Continue reading
Monday, 4/30
I meant what I said: I am going back to prose in the morning. But once, when I was twenty-years old and living in New York, I went on a rant against Starbucks to this person I was trying to … Continue reading
Sunday, 4/29
Poetry month is almost over; up next: May. Tomorrow is my last day at Stockton until the fall. Until the fall. It has such an ache to it. I am grading research papers. I also need to start revising four … Continue reading
Saturday, 4/28
Kathy Graber is reading at the Noyes this afternoon! Afterwards, I’m looking forward to a quiet weekend thereafter. I feel very calm, for some reason, this morning, and hope it will last. At the South Jersey translation of Irish pub, … Continue reading
Friday, 4/27
Poetry month is almost over. In anticipation of that (perhaps), I have apparently won a fiction contest over at Elephant Talk. Today, I return to my alma mater, Ocean City High School, for their poetry day. I’ll be bringing copies … Continue reading
Thursday, 4/26
I Skyped with my sister last night. I said, “So, I’ve been posting poems, old and new, mostly new now, to feed the new blog, you know, but now I’m getting good-anxious for poetry month to be over so I … Continue reading
Wednesday, 4/25
It is that time of year when one thinks of getting older, for some reason, and of moving on to the next season & newer stage. My friend Rita is joining the alleyways group this summer as an artist-in-residence, to … Continue reading
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