Finished reading a Randall Jarrell book.
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Finished reading a Randall Jarrell book.
Author: coffeehousejunkie
thirsty?
// Thinking about marketing… wondering about Wall Street… considering poetry… for some reason this all makes me very thirsty.
Downtown Asheville, Early Autumn
Coffee and poetry
This morning I was working at The Dripolator.
why am i taking this class?
Last night the teacher told me I should check out the writings of Randall Jarrell based on a poem draft I read for class. Other comments included the words “authoritative” and “tender.”
Another classmate came up to me and asked if I had studied poetry. That make a total of three classmates who have asked how it is I know so much about poetry and poetic techniques. The answer is simple: No, I didn’t go to school and study poetry. I just read books.
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What’s up with the office doorbell? It’s worse than my office phone ringing off the hook.
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Listening to a lecture on classical mythology.
Poets Teaching Poets, part 3
Last night, I submitted one of my poems for workshop. For those readers unfamiliar with what happens to a poem/poet during a “workshop” session, imagine a colonoscopy performed by pre-med students.
I could play the pained poet and claim that I am still recovering from the ordeal, but that’s not true because I’m still giggling.
Poets Teaching Poets, part 3
Last night, I submitted one of my poems for workshop. For those readers unfamiliar with what happens to a poem/poet during a “workshop” session, imagine a colonoscopy performed by pre-med students.
I could play the pained poet and claim that I am still recovering from the ordeal, but that’s not true because I’m still giggling.
Poetry, the highest form of art
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Someone just brought me homemade chocolate cookies. Thank you!
Poetry, the highest form of art
“Imagine living in a society where poetry was considered to be the most important art form. Where a poet could easily fill a football stadium. Where a poet’s death was the top news story for days.” Link
This echoes the thought that Icelandic books is the most important in Europe.
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Stopped by Asheville Brewing Co. on the way home after class. ABC was packed for the Presidential debate.
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Bus broke down. Only got home 5 minutes late. How’s that for efficient public transit?
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Is trying to catch the 4 o’clock bus.
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someone’s cellphone is ringing in the other office… answer it, please.
You’re kidding, right? Magazine ad sales increase?
Ad pages in the monthly magazines’ January through September issues had fallen 7.4% from 2007, according to Media Industry Newsletter. The first nine months of 2007, by comparison, slipped only 1% from 2006. Before that, we’d seen a few years of gains.
Okay, so maybe it is not all bad.
The Economist… presented a crisp example of excellence in editorial, ad sales, circulation and marketing. Women’s Health continued its ascent…. Every Day With Rachael Ray even reversed the newsstand decline of first-half 2007.
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back at the office… why was the guy on the bus trying to sell passengers a stolen credit card? Idiot.
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listening to Morphine play over The Drip’s house stereo system
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making final revisions to a childrens book that is supposed to go to press today
The idea is not the story
Does one really create ideas? I suspect I know what this writer is attempting to say. However, writing prose is about the story not the idea. Ideas embedded in the story make it great, but the idea itself won’t sell the story. The etymology of the word “idea” is “figure, image, symbol” and “to see.” A great idea is nothing unless it has a narrative substance. Besides, does one create an idea or does one have an idea?
Overheard @ The Dripolator
Barrista: So you like spending money on higher education? What, you like got your degree lit… and… now it’s like sweet, I can’t get a job anywhere.
Print is dead, long live print
From Print is Dead blog:
…even though I wrote a book called Print is Dead, even I don’t think that publishing is over. Rather, it just needs to change and be willing to embrace new ideas and business models.
Link
Can intelligent literature survive in the digital age?
A transatlantic debate is currently raging about whether a decade of staring at computer screens, sending emails and text messages, and having our research needs serviced instantly by Google and Wikipedia, has taken a terrible toll on our attention, until our brains have been reconfigurated and can no longer adjust the tempo of our mental word-processing to let us read a book all the way through.
NOTES:
1) Andrew Cowan, “Books special: Can intelligent literature survive in the digital age?,” The Independent, accessed September 18, 2008, https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/features/books-special-can-intelligent-literature-survive-in-the-digital-age-926545.html
Coffeehouse Junkie 