dwelling in possibility
My mind keeps going back to this idea: recast “I dwell in possibility” as though a negative outcome were possible.
Category: Ecopoetics
“a system does not regulate everything”
Kevin Killian “Kona Spray Ad Campaign” ecopoetics 1 Trying to write about gay eco-erotica. Not sure what to say. Only that I would not ordinarily have encountered this story in my everyday life. So...
impulses of the brush
Kimiko Hahn, writing critically of various descriptions of zuihitsu: I was looking for a definition of the zuihitsu from my shelf of Japanese texts, but discovered none gave more than a sentence or two....
pastoral
Pastoral Michael Kelleher Ecopoetics 1 page 57 This is an enjoyable piece. It doesn’t torture me by raising questions, other than a desire to read up on the meaning of “pastoral.” I can read...
corn 3
The repetitive appearance of the word “corn” in “Everything I Know About Corn” is a pattern. The pattern is like corn kernels. The poem is shaped vaguely like an ear of corn, tall and...
more about corn
I’m remembering a conference on the Prose Poem, August 2001, Walpole New Hampshire. Robert Bly attended. His main emphasis in writing prose poems is close observance of, intimacy with, the object. Including plants. He...
corn
Lisa Jarnot Everything I Know About Corn ecopoetics 1, page 55 I’ve read this poem many times. I’m starting to feel like I’ve eaten corn from reading the poem a lot. I enjoy eating...