this is for sean…

looks like this guy shares your hatred of airports:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/books/review/Russo-t.html?ref=review

Summer Writing.

I just wanted to post to say I’m still writing, and I hope everyone else is. And if anyone wants to continue a correspondence over the summer in the manner in which we did in class (workshopping, commenting, etc.), this might be a place to say that YOU’RE still writing too. So, yeah. I hope [...]

found poetry…

…is really fun, but doesn’t it imply that someone lost it to begin with? hmmm… 
 
ok sorry, that was the very strange segue to the reason for this post–Doug found a Legitimate Dangers book on the ground beneath a chair opposite the chalk board after class today. If it’s yours, just let me know and we [...]

Spoofing William Carlos Williams… on NPR

An episode of This American Life on apologizing a la “This is Just to Say” from class: here (starts at 51:00)

summer workshop group?

hey guys,
i am going to be working on campus all summer and i was curious as to whether anyone else will be sticking around as well. during my conference, barbara and i talked about me starting a workshop group for anyone in our class who will be around to meet once a week or so [...]

100 words (something annoying)

It’s the best fodder…
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Chomp. AGH…Chomp. Wet chomp. Loud wet chomp with slurping noises. Sex. Every time I hear someone chew with their mouth open I think of sex and sloppy wet noises, and now it’s my mother slurping her soup, and I’m going to have to fucking kill her. My mother and sex can’t be [...]

Jiri Kylian, choreographer

This has nothing to do with words, but I found it interesting and impressive:

Maddie’s group — I just wanted you all to know that I intended to read everyone’s stories now, but no one has anything posted.

O’Hara and the New York School

Hi guys — this made me think of the New York School exercise we did at the beginning of the semester. I’m not sure if any of you have read much Frank O’Hara, but the poet Dan Chiasson wrote an excellent, excellent review in The New Yorker of the latest selection of O’Hara’s poems. (It’s [...]

Revision Exercises

Hey guys: this came up in a couple of meetings with my group this week, and I thought it might be helpful for the group as a whole. If you’re looking for a fun way to start digging into your nonfiction — stranger studies, nonfiction shorts from last week, whatever you’ve got down on paper [...]