This is a pretty accurate representation of my current internship in brazil, the work one needs to be really minimal though.
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Every morning, I have woken up knowing that I will never run out of books to read. That has been my life.
The rumor is true–reading poems at Malaprop’s for Poetrio, May 1st
Everyone has a story. Everyone is interesting for at least 15 minutes.
Picture of me taken by Sable for the Spring 2011 issue of Proxart Magazine
Which you should check out (Free PDF of Proxart Winter 2010)
Poem: The honey bee
Can do better, will do better.
Andre Dubus III, Six-Word Memoir from the Memoirville interview at Smith Magazine (via wwnorton)
Poem: The Storm Approaches
Time is like air; it is there always, changing people and forming character.
William Trevor (via theparisreview)
People have one great blessing – obscurity – and not really too many people are thankful for it.
Bob Dylan’s Playboy interview, 1966. (via somethingchanged)
The winning poetry prize moment captured on video
Friday night’s Mountain Xpress poetry prize event was captured on video by Jesse Hamm. Check out the video of Brian Sneeden winning the poetry prize and reading the award winning poem, “The Temple.”
Poem: There’s A Place
Sometimes I think a writer should make up his mind whether he’s going to be a writer or a reader. There isn’t time for both.
Jessamyn West (via theparisreview)
Poem: Foggy Sunday Morning
If you’re participating in the 30 poems in 30 days writing challenge, it’s day eleven. How are you doing with the challenge? This poem sketch was written yesterday, but I was offline so here’s poem 10 of 30.
And the Winner of the 2011 Mountain Xpress Poetry Prize is…
Selected from ten finalists by Keith Flynn, founder and managing editor of Asheville Poetry Review, Brian Sneeden’s “The Temple” won the 2011 Mountain Xpress Poetry Prize. Congratulations Brian!
Brian shared double duty Friday night at the 2011 Mountain Xpress Poetry Show as he and I were invited as members of the Rooftop Poets to read at the event as part of “the next generation” of Asheville poets.
The Poetry Show provided an excellent environment to read and hear local poetry. Each one of the finalists read well-crafted verse; from laundry to bath tubs. Laura Hope-Gill kicked off the evening with a wonderful collection of poems. It was also a special delight for me to hear Matt Owens and Mesha Maren of the Juniper Bends reading series present their work. I’ll spare you an event review. But I will mention that Jaye Bartell was the evening’s host and I would like to thank the person whose cell phone rang incessantly during the reading of my poem “The Last Chestnut Tree.” Without you I wouldn’t have been able to pull off that performance.
A wonderful and full evening provided by the Mountain Xpress team and talented local poets!
EXPERIENCE DESIGN PYRAMID
This may seem a bit academic but for me it is pretty fundamental to remember when doing experience design. I put this checklist together to remind me why some experiences fail. Usually they are missing one or more parts of this experience design pyramid. Do all 6 and your experience is like magic!
photojojo:
Take note on these lessons from Wieden+Kennedy’s Executive Creative Director, John C Jay:
via SwissMiss
Be authentic. The most powerful asset you have is your individuality, what makes you unique. It’s time to stop listening to others on what you should do.
Work harder than anyone else and…
R. Buckminster Fuller at Black Mountain College by Nancy Newhall ca. 1948 Color Transparency (via adamferriss)
Coffeehouse Junkie 