May 12th.
Do we want wine, snacks, or such? Could be a cool way to end the semester.
Krys
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Thursday, April 3, 2008
For your entertainment Krys =)
People You May Know
4 am is a traffic jam.
My clock, out of pity, skips it
When I’m lucky.
Fingers trace a dent in my durafoam nest,
My closet is full of stiff flowers that still reek
a hint of Sensodyne.
My sheets smell like the song
You used to whistle while scrubbing dishes,
Perhaps the tune that stood with Audrey Hepburn
Outside Tiffany’s, but I could be wrong.
I’m never really wrong.
That car rattled around blind corners
And your fidgeting kept me awake
At the wheel, but I wasn’t driving.
You make noise on your airguitar
It sounds like nothing, so I miss it more than anything.
Can’t take the kid from the fight, take the fight from the kid,
Sit back, relax, sit back, relapse.
The cold dissection of memory drags towards 4:02, and
I’m breathing in milk; it’s supposed to dull the burn.
You hum to Ace while she drives in circles;
We will eventually forget to remember
but not without remembering to forget.
I love you. Fuck you. I’ll change.
Più è quello cambia, più è la stessa cosa.
Your dashboard bobblehead quivers in disapproval,
So I knock it off my nightstand, and pray for sleep, or 5.
4 am is a traffic jam.
My clock, out of pity, skips it
When I’m lucky.
Fingers trace a dent in my durafoam nest,
My closet is full of stiff flowers that still reek
a hint of Sensodyne.
My sheets smell like the song
You used to whistle while scrubbing dishes,
Perhaps the tune that stood with Audrey Hepburn
Outside Tiffany’s, but I could be wrong.
I’m never really wrong.
That car rattled around blind corners
And your fidgeting kept me awake
At the wheel, but I wasn’t driving.
You make noise on your airguitar
It sounds like nothing, so I miss it more than anything.
Can’t take the kid from the fight, take the fight from the kid,
Sit back, relax, sit back, relapse.
The cold dissection of memory drags towards 4:02, and
I’m breathing in milk; it’s supposed to dull the burn.
You hum to Ace while she drives in circles;
We will eventually forget to remember
but not without remembering to forget.
I love you. Fuck you. I’ll change.
Più è quello cambia, più è la stessa cosa.
Your dashboard bobblehead quivers in disapproval,
So I knock it off my nightstand, and pray for sleep, or 5.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Quiz?
Two people have asked about a "quiz". I officially don't know but have emailed Barbara and will post any information she shares.
Note to readers: I post information for your edification. Will you post poems for my entertainment?
Note to readers: I post information for your edification. Will you post poems for my entertainment?
Friday, March 14, 2008
My Blog
In case you guys are interested, here's my blog:
http://thekippocrite.blogspot.com
It's... aggressive. Some find it offensive. Don't be offended, it's just my writing style to get people engaged. Let me know what you think!
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Syllabus per Prof
Hello again,
Your favorite neighborhood reporter here with news hot off the presses!
3/18 Visiting Poet Chad....ummmmm I lost the last name somewhere but yeah visiting poet.
3/20 Literary Forms. Please bring the Making of a poem to class.
3/28 in class exercises. Please bring the notes from the 3/11/08 class.
after spring break or midterm recovery period as some of us will be calling it....
4/1 Conclude "narrative exercises"
4/3 In class exercises
4/8 3rd Practice of Poetry exercise to be workshopped. Don't forget to bring copies of your typewritten poem.
4/10 Turn in revised poem. In class exercise.
4/15 Class visit from Famous poet(ess?) Elizabeth Robinson. Read her online before her visit. Now, I really was going to locate and post links to her work but I thought I'd let you each experience just how many Elizabeth Robinson's you could locate on Google.
Good luck on your midterms.
I have emailed this to you individually, please email me if you have not rec'd a copy.
miguelk@berkeley.edu
later.
Your favorite neighborhood reporter here with news hot off the presses!
3/18 Visiting Poet Chad....ummmmm I lost the last name somewhere but yeah visiting poet.
3/20 Literary Forms. Please bring the Making of a poem to class.
3/28 in class exercises. Please bring the notes from the 3/11/08 class.
after spring break or midterm recovery period as some of us will be calling it....
4/1 Conclude "narrative exercises"
4/3 In class exercises
4/8 3rd Practice of Poetry exercise to be workshopped. Don't forget to bring copies of your typewritten poem.
4/10 Turn in revised poem. In class exercise.
4/15 Class visit from Famous poet(ess?) Elizabeth Robinson. Read her online before her visit. Now, I really was going to locate and post links to her work but I thought I'd let you each experience just how many Elizabeth Robinson's you could locate on Google.
Good luck on your midterms.
I have emailed this to you individually, please email me if you have not rec'd a copy.
miguelk@berkeley.edu
later.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Class Cancelled March 11, 2008
Classmates:
Our Professor is not feeling up to par quite yet. Please note that
tomorrow's class [Tuesday March 11th] is canceled. (NOTE: the dictionary
told me both forms of cancel(l)ed are correct,verb v noun. Interesting
eh?)
So on Thursday March 13, 2008 please come prepared with your Practice of
Poetry exercise (please bring copies to be work-shopped).
If it is not too much trouble, please send a reply that you have received
this note as I will endeavor to make sure no one shows up to class
unnecessarily.
Looking forward to the next round of poems.
Krys
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Hey Classmates our online notes for todays class
Assignments:
3/11 Making of a Poem- Bring book to class (see syllabus dated 2/21)
3/13 2nd Practice of Poetry exercise (pp 63-106). Bring 4 copies to class for workshop.
3/18 Wonderful visit by great poet and editor Chad Sweeney
3/20 in class exercise
3/21 Holloway Poetry Reading 7pm
Friday March 21st @ 6:30pm
Linh Dinh
with Marisa Libbon
Poetry that "raids and reinvents the language with an ardor bordering on delirium" from Linh Dinh. More info coming soon!
Per the professor you all should read good contemporary poetry
Good online journals
http://www.octopusmagazine.com/
http://jacketmagazine.com/00/home.shtml
http://www.conjunctions.com/
Written journals she recommends we try to look at:
Jubilat
Verse
No a journal of the arts
Colorado review
Denver quarterly
conjunctions
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