Tag Archives: poetry
Visiting Juvy, Again
Finally, I got to spend a day in Juvenile Hall as an adult. I’ve been trying to get inside for a year now, ever since I started working at the county library and realized that there is a library inside … Continue reading
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Not Invisible
This will be a short(er) post. I know I’ve been writing a lot, lot lately, a lot that only I can probably keep up with. I enjoy myself. I do. I forgot to mention that 6 of my poems are … Continue reading
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WordPress Blues
I’ve been unfaithful to my blog. I’ve been having a hard time with wordpress lately. It’s feeling cluttered and bulky and suffocating. Sure, it has a lot of features, but I’ve taken a liking to Tumblr, with its simple streamlined … Continue reading
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Take Poetry Back: Obscurity is Not A Stamp of Awful
Memoirists. Confessional poets. Are they passe? Should they just give up? Why would anyone talk about theirselves? Why continue? Aren’t there enough visceral, personal experiences out there? Yes. Yes, there are. But do I get tired of reading good ones? … Continue reading
Summing up 2011 on The Stifled Artist
I started this blog in 2007, directly when I moved out of my favorite city in the whole world: San Francisco. My husband and I moved out because rents were skyrocketing, and the beautiful little apartment we had lived in in … Continue reading
Weekly Feature: Amanda Eades, Editor of Railroad Poetry Project
I’m happy to be revisiting the Creative People Who Rock feature here. I’ve asked Amanda Eades, the editor behind a poetry publication and platform quickly gaining momentum and now inundated with poetry on it’s third issue: Railroad Poetry Project. The … Continue reading
Groveling, Poetry, What it All Means to Me
I always wanted this blog to be full of piss and vinegar. Witty, acerbic, profound, astounding. I find lately that all I preach — follow your dreams, do what you love, be yourself — is easy in principal, but much harder … Continue reading
You Need Chaos in Your Soul
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. –Friedrich Nietzsche I spend a lot of time involved in wild flights of fantasy, where I imagine strange and extraordinary things occurring, meeting the right people in the right places, magical results coming from little creations. And when I’m … Continue reading
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Bukowski, Why Be a Poet, Why Ignite Sparks
(photo credit Largo Poet) “If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It … Continue reading
Weekly Feature: I Am An Anti-Capitalist, A Book Review
*This week, for the weekly feature, we have a book review by poet and scifi writer Josh Pearce. I first met Josh in college, in a creative writing class, and found his writing refreshing, though he’ll tell you I blindly … Continue reading
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