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Monday, December 14, 2009

Me, Interviewed:

What is your poetic statement?

I think writer Sam Rasnake said it best when he said that one of my poems was “…a strong meeting of lyric mode and narrative mode and that’s not easily done.” I never could get a grip on how to sum up my writing style, but I was aware that I had a writing style because...



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THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (interviews)

  • JENNIFER CHANG: "...other poets appear in my poems when I'm feeling the anxiety of influence, which is really the anxiety of self..."
  • CECILY PARKS: "A really good poem makes me feel like I might cry. I get that tingly feeling on the backs of my eyeballs."
  • LEIGH ANNE COUCH: "I have really enjoyed seeking out first books by poets I love..."
  • ERICA DAWSON: "I have a little mission to prove that things from the 17th century and earlier were pretty damn sexy and sassy in their day, and still can be sassy today."
  • JULIANA GRAY: " I'm not sure I believe in writer's block. Certainly there are times when the creative powers are lying fallow and we aren't producing much or any work, but as for a "block"– some kind of barrier between you and the language – I just don't buy it."
  • CHUCK RYBAK: "...everything I hope for in my own writing: a chance to refashion the seemingly mundane as magical."
  • STEPHEN FRECH: "...while I rarely work on poems at night, I am doing the kind of reading that fills me up with images and language that enter my poetry."
  • RHETT ISEMAN TRULL: "...I think my urge to write poetry was more of a need to search ... to find the right words for emotions that had been too complicated for me to begin to express before."
  • DAN ALBERGOTTI: "To write a poem is to ... attempt to connect at a deeper level than our daily interactions and superficial conversations will allow."
  • DOUG VAN GUNDY: "Making whiskey and making poetry both involve distillation, to my mind: the extraction and concentration of the essential."
  • IAN DOUGLAS: "But I'd like to think there is someone out there who needs my poems desperately, as I've needed the poems of others."
  • JENNYLYNN KELLER: "Jocks. But maybe that just means I haven't found the right poet yet."
  • TONY MANCUS: "...I don't really know what makes someone a 'poet' or what makes someone fated to be this thing. The best handle I've got has to do with attention and intention."
  • PAUL SIEGELL: "Poets are not hard to find. Poetry readers are."
  • MISSY MCEWEN: "My favorite word at the moment, and probably for always, is 'obsession' "

For some poetry & stories written by me, Press 1:

  • O&S: four poems (recording)
  • Trouble (a short story)
  • four poems: Sucker, Jelly, July, & Even on Sunday
  • Red Velvet Cake
  • Two poems
  • Orange Lover
  • All I Know about my Aunt Philomena (a short story)
  • Blood (Best New Poets 2007)

Dial B for more blogs:

  • Silliman's Blog
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  • Glass Half Full
    P90X = OhEmGee. - *this is insane - www.beachbody.com*In an effort to avoid the discouraging plateau of weight loss, I've employed the use of P90X. Well, at least I started ...
  • ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL
    WEAR A PAGE FROM A POETRY BOOK - *LIQUOR UP YOUR LEPRECHAUN!!!* Let the shenanigans begin! Get rowdy this ST. PATRICK'S DAY with the most unique T-SHIRT - or thong - at the pub crawl. ...
  • Missy McEwen's Immunization Against Invisibility
    Introducing Nick Paradise - Although rapper Nick Paradise is Yonkers based his sound and indefinable style can't be pegged to one specific region and his energetic delivery, unique ...
  • Qwik-Bake Synthetics
    Protected: Aubade by Walter Bjorkman - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

ON SPEED DIAL:

  • Writers Almanac

Blog Archive

  • ►  2011 (1)
    • ►  January (1)
      • The Poetry Chain Gang (Volume 3)
  • ►  2010 (11)
    • ►  November (1)
      • On Poetry
    • ►  October (1)
      • Poets & artists paired!
    • ►  September (2)
      • It's MiPO, Yo!
      • Trouble (an e-chapbook by me)
    • ►  August (3)
      • The Poetry Chain Gang (Volume 2)
      • Delicious Dangerous by Michelle McEwen
      • The first five of the MiPOesias Chapbook series fo...
    • ►  July (1)
      • Delicious Dangerous (chapbook by me!)
    • ►  June (1)
      • More me on the World Wide Web:
    • ►  February (1)
      • Saturday Pie by Melissa McEwen
    • ►  January (1)
      • Ocho #29: featuring my poem "Peach Juice"
  • ▼  2009 (25)
    • ▼  December (1)
      • Me, Interviewed:
    • ►  November (2)
      • O&S 2009 Pushcart Nominations
      • OCHO #27!
    • ►  September (3)
      • THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 15 w/ Jennifer Chang)
      • Poets & Artists
      • THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 14 w/ Cecily Parks)
    • ►  August (2)
      • THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 13 w/ Leigh Anne Couch...
      • THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 12 w/ Erica Dawson)
    • ►  July (2)
      • Michelle McEwen (that's me!) will be reviewing you...
      • THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 11 w/ Juliana Gray)
    • ►  June (2)
      • THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 10 w/ Chuck Rybak)
      • THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 9 w/ poet Stephen Frec...
    • ►  May (2)
      • THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 8 w/ Rhett Iseman Trul...
      • THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 7 w/ Dan Albergotti)
    • ►  April (2)
      • Poet Al Young discusses daybreak, Jazz, & "slithy ...
      • THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 6 w/ Doug Van Gundy)
    • ►  March (2)
      • Michelle McEwen: The O & S Recording (four poems)
      • O & S (April 2009)
    • ►  February (3)
      • MiPo: A Community Chapbook
      • THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 5 w/ Ian Douglas)
      • The Best American Poetry (I'm interviewed!)
    • ►  January (4)
      • THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 4 w/ Jennylynn Keller)...
      • THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 3 w/ Tony Mancus)
      • THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 2 w/ Paul Siegell)
      • THE POETRY CHAIN GANG (part 1 w/ Missy McEwen)
  • ►  2008 (5)
    • ►  December (1)
      • Sweetwater, Saltwater
    • ►  November (4)
      • Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta!
      • Borrowed Scenery
      • Leaning In
      • Degrees of Freedom

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