Goose Hill

During my poem-a-day challenge for NaNoWriMo 2014, I've given myself the freedom to experiment with some different forms that I've been curious about, but a little too bashful to try before. I know what that sounds like, but different poetic forms, especially some of the more contemporary/experimental ones, can be a little …intimate. Well, very intimate, actually. Erasure of text from Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle . page 165. I'm still figuring out how I feel about erasure as a poetic form. I'm not sure that I would lump my erasures into the same category that I would my poetry. The hands-on, collage-like process of erasure creates something that, to me, feels more like visual art .  You are working with a page from an already printed (and/or bound) text (that was, hopefully, in bad shape before you started tearing pages out). You can erase (i.e. cross out) the words you don't want to use in creating your new text, but you can't add words (ev...

Here's a brief slideshow of the lovely blur that was October and the release of The Book of Scented Things .   The Literary House launch party on October 7, 2014.   Me, reading my poem & talking about poetry. Editing discussion at the Arts Club of Washington on October 29, 2014. With Caroline Knuth, lovely poet-friend who came to the DC launch. It's been an amazing celebration of a month for our beloved anthology and both launch events were such fun. We were joined by contributors, friends, family, and even Chanel! Thank you to everyone who helped make these events so successful and thank you for welcoming The Book of Scented Things into the reading world.  Some other things that happened in October: The Book of Scented Things landed an amazing review by poet-perfumista Kathleen Rooney in The Chicago Tribune ! It ran in their dedicated books section, Printers Row Journal , on October 16. Jehanne and I attended our first Dodge Poetry Festi...