skip to main | skip to sidebar

The Black Telephone

poetry's calling

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Michelle McEwen: The O & S Recording (four poems)

Open publication - Free publishing - More poetry

Posted by Michelle "Mim" McEwen

Newer Post Older Post Home

The Black Telephone

Home of the poetry chain gang.

"The black telephone's off at the root/ The voices just can't worm through." from Daddy by Sylvia Plath

The Operator:

Michelle "Mim" McEwen: I'm a bibliophile, logophile, magazine junkie, library-lover, poet, storyteller, and bookworm living in central Connecticut.

View my complete profile

Followers

Contact me:

Mimsy75@gmail.com

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

-
ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL

-
Qwik-Bake Synthetics

-
Glass Half Full

-
Missy McEwen's Immunization Against Invisibility

-

ON SPEED DIAL:

Writers Almanac

Blog Archive

► 2011 (1)
- ► January (1)

► 2010 (11)
- ► November (1)
- ► October (1)
- ► September (2)
- ► August (3)
- ► July (1)
- ► June (1)
- ► February (1)
- ► January (1)

▼ 2009 (25)
- ► December (1)
- ► November (2)
- ► September (3)
- ► August (2)
- ► July (2)
- ► June (2)
- ► May (2)
- ► April (2)
- ▼ March (2)
  - Michelle McEwen: The O & S Recording (four poems)
  - O & S (April 2009)
- ► February (3)
- ► January (4)

► 2008 (5)
- ► December (1)
- ► November (4)

Subscribe To

Posts

Posts

Comments

Comments