How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with?
I canot workshop. It does not work for me. I just send it out, post it, or read it. I do not even really discuss my ideas with other folks. Writing is a solitary act. I work alone and lonely. Plus, I hate to waste other folks' time by not taking their advice.
Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Travis Sharp : part one
Why is poetry important?
Poetry, which is not escapism, can distance and make strange the real so that you can actually for the first time see it. Not all poetry does this, but it can do this, and that is why it is important.
Monday, 29 April 2019
G. E. Schwartz : part two
How did you first engage with poetry?
At about age three into four when my mother, who took me to various evening novenas and weekly and sometimes daily mass would begin to show me how to follow along the prayers on the page which in the missal were shaped like poems--they had line breaks and scansion. It was also most certainly my first introduction to reading, so both were indelibly braided within me.
At about age three into four when my mother, who took me to various evening novenas and weekly and sometimes daily mass would begin to show me how to follow along the prayers on the page which in the missal were shaped like poems--they had line breaks and scansion. It was also most certainly my first introduction to reading, so both were indelibly braided within me.
Alexandre Ferrere : part five
How does a poem begin?
I would be tempted to say that, in my practice, it begins by the end, as it is once a situation or an idea has ended that I try to recreate the invisible path towards a particular sensation. But it sometimes begins like a bull in a china shop—in a logic of chaos, not being able to grasp the idea. In that situation, I tend to focus on forms and colors so as to create a visual narrative, before reinforcing or destroying contents, aiming for an immediate effect on the reader.
I would be tempted to say that, in my practice, it begins by the end, as it is once a situation or an idea has ended that I try to recreate the invisible path towards a particular sensation. But it sometimes begins like a bull in a china shop—in a logic of chaos, not being able to grasp the idea. In that situation, I tend to focus on forms and colors so as to create a visual narrative, before reinforcing or destroying contents, aiming for an immediate effect on the reader.
Sunday, 28 April 2019
Lucas Lejeune : part three
How does a poem begin?
As a post-conceptual writer, I almost never write from scratch. Most of my poems start from one or multiple source texts I find online. Usually neutral or collective content. Some poem however, begin with an idea. I will then look for the appropriate source text. I then edit the raw material using mathematical protocols and constraints, as well as basic operations such as permutation or juxtaposition. The degree of editing I put in the poem usually depends on my state of mind. Sometimes, I might just copy and paste, adding maybe a linebreak or two, letting the original text convey it's information and raw musicality. Some other times, I might turn a raw list of data into long and complex sentences having little resemblance to their original source.
As a post-conceptual writer, I almost never write from scratch. Most of my poems start from one or multiple source texts I find online. Usually neutral or collective content. Some poem however, begin with an idea. I will then look for the appropriate source text. I then edit the raw material using mathematical protocols and constraints, as well as basic operations such as permutation or juxtaposition. The degree of editing I put in the poem usually depends on my state of mind. Sometimes, I might just copy and paste, adding maybe a linebreak or two, letting the original text convey it's information and raw musicality. Some other times, I might turn a raw list of data into long and complex sentences having little resemblance to their original source.
Jennifer Kronovet : part two
How did you first engage with poetry?
When I was a teenager, poetry, to me, meant Walt Whitman. There is a certain brain state when I read him—an opening into what the lyric can do—even though I don’t see him as my poetry grandpa.
When I was a teenager, poetry, to me, meant Walt Whitman. There is a certain brain state when I read him—an opening into what the lyric can do—even though I don’t see him as my poetry grandpa.
Saturday, 27 April 2019
Candice Wuehle : part four
What poets changed the way you thought about writing?
Every poet I read changes the way I think about writing a little bit. But the most directly influential would be Lisa Robertson for her unapologetic intelligence, Hannah Weiner for her radical expansion of what a poem is, Carrie Lorig for her ability to create work so raw and sincere that it feels a little religious (in the best way) to read. And Johannes Göransson for completely disrupting the way I thought a poem should (or could) speak, for expanding my notion of voice into something beyond the lyric “I”—beyond human, really.
Every poet I read changes the way I think about writing a little bit. But the most directly influential would be Lisa Robertson for her unapologetic intelligence, Hannah Weiner for her radical expansion of what a poem is, Carrie Lorig for her ability to create work so raw and sincere that it feels a little religious (in the best way) to read. And Johannes Göransson for completely disrupting the way I thought a poem should (or could) speak, for expanding my notion of voice into something beyond the lyric “I”—beyond human, really.
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