Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan.
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Poem dump
Since I hardly have time to post on this blog lately, I’m going to drop a couple different pieces on you per post that have nothing to do with each other. I like using this blog as a portfolio of sorts so I want to get as much uploaded to it as possible without making 6 different posts in one day.
So! Here it comes. The great unloading of the past week(ish)’s worth of work.
The first is a revised version of a poem I posted earlier.
My prof had some great suggestions for how to make the poem read faster, as it was dragging its feet before workshop.
The next two I’ll mash together since they’re both experiments in our latest class endeavor: chapbooks.
I was playing around with a possible cover for my chapbook here. This one is made from a page out of Basic Tools of Research and coffee grounds laminated on top. The grounds didn’t entirely allow for lamination so some of them shake and move around a bit, kind of like an etch-a-sketch.
And this little guy above is a bolder attempt at a chapbook, made from laminated gum wrappers (a regular cast member in my visual art, lately) and masking tape. Objectively, it’s the cutest thing.
Finally, my latest workshop poem. This version’s the revised one based on suggestions from my prof (get rid of “The” at the beginning of the second stanza, get rid of the final word in the poem) and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. I created it out of the casual encounters section of Craigslist, which now shows up as a visited link on my browser. I’m shameless.
In other news, my Vonnegut blog is starting to come together which is fun. I’d still love it if you peeped it sometime soon. It has inspired me to ramble less (perhaps my biggest blogging faux pas) and to make my posts more interactive. Expect TDIM to improve some, I guess is what I’m getting at. Shit, am I rambling? Okay, I’m done. Now.
Cheating on my blog
It’s a good thing no one reads this blog religiously enough to notice when I neglect it.
And I really don’t mean to neglect it! This blog is an extension of myself. I made it on the cusp of a real creative breakthrough in my poetry and I can’t– won’t — throw it away.
But, for the time being, it looks like TDIM is gonna take the backseat to my new blog, Vonnegutnut, since the latter is a project for class and therefore demands my immediate attention.
I’m pretty excited about Vonnegutnut, though. I was unsure of its premise in the beginning but I’m becoming more confident in my vision and I can tell things are gonna get good, fast.
So, please! If you will, follow it. I’ve designed it to appeal to Vonnegut fans and not-yet-fans alike, so stop by and click around. But really, click around. You never know where a picture or word might lead you.
Until next time, friends. I’ll try and post some of my work here soon, but the majority of my new material will be Vonnegutnut blog posts. All the more reason to give it a look!
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