Photos Like Sonnets

“Swiss-born artist Rudy Burckhardt put poets on film and made photos work like sonnets.” Check out this article on the only photographer the New York School of Poets considered one of their own.
This marriage of poem and photo, or photo as poem, poem as photo, brings us full circle, from writing with photographs to [...]

Being a Poet

I found the following in a response written by writer/editor Jennifer Bosveld of Pudding House Publications and felt that it called back to what we’re trying to do . . .
“Poet is my title and the following is my job description:
Spend 100% of my time observing the relationships between all things living and seemingly [...]

Wu Ming and collaborative writing

Hey guys. Just a little bit of something interesting I wanted to share. Maddie and Sean and I (anyone else?) were at a lecture yesterday by Roberto Bui, a member of an Italian writers’ collective called Wu Ming. (The name alternatively means “anonymous” or “five writers,” depending on how you pronounce the first syllable.) He [...]

Kerouac

I was looking around the web for some more information on Jack Kerouac and came across a piece on NPR (here) that details some aspects of On The Road. The site also has some other interesting bits about Kerouac and his writing in general. You can listen to him reading (which is pretty sweet) and [...]

What Can An Art Class at Another College Teach Us in Our Writing Class?

The Spore Collective Manifesto
I wonder what we as writers can learn from following the experience of this sculpture class at the University of Mary Washington.  Check out the student blogs, too, as they reflect on the experience. What do you think?