Tag Archives: Karen Head
I Live to Be a Ray of Sunshine in My 5 Readers’ Lives…
Summer is a drag. Especially this summer. All my friends seem to be gone. Karen is in Oxford, England; Bob is not on campus. There’s drama brewing in GPS; Chickenpinata is damn near defunct thanks to a mass exodus of … Continue reading
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If Not Talking Back to the Muse, At Least Listening to Her a Little More
I’ve been reading a lot lately, and realizing how much in the last year since Chris and I have lived together that that hasn’t been the case. When I was single, I read about hour before bed every night–it could … Continue reading
April is Poetry Month… & I Haven’t Made a Single Post (Horrors!)
Tuesday the 6th was Chris’s b-day, and instead of traditional birthday things, I dragged him to the DYPS’ reading at the Oglethorpe Museum (he was very amenable, all things considered). The reading was in tandem with their exhibit, Henri Matisse: … Continue reading
Tigerlilies & Valentines
Mentioning the Tigerlily poems in the last posts got me thinking about them, both as long, narrative poems, and as Southern poems. I remember that Karen and Grace both liked them, as well as a few others in that class, … Continue reading
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But You Can’t Take the South Out of the Girl
Ok, so “tomorrow” came a few days later. Sue me. It’s weird. My head is full of ideas–places I want to go in these poems, lives I want to explore. I’ve been reading Southern history and articles about Northwest Louisiana, … Continue reading
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You Can Take the Girl Out of the South…
Taking Karen’s Southern Poetry class has rekindled in me some Southern connection in my writing that has been dormant for a while. One of the first questions she posed was, of course, what is Southern poetry? Is it simply poetry … Continue reading
Favors, & Anguish, & Blurbs, Oh My!
It is extremely hard for me to ask favors of people. I’m not talking about the “Hey, Chris, can you please replace the toilet paper?” kind of favor. I mean the kind where I ask someone to do something for … Continue reading
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And Now a Word from She Who Is Soon-to-be Published
I’ve been thinking about cover art and blurbs and such, and I can’t tell you how stressful that is. I’m beginning to think writing the book was waaaaay easier than all the stuff that comes after. Karen says I ought … Continue reading
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When Good Poems Go Bad
I’ve been working on this poem that just isn’t going well. Going well? Try, not going at all. Well, let me back up. As I said in my last post, this poem, called “The Art of Loss,” was to … Continue reading
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Decatur Book Fest Recap
I was going to write about the amazing reading at Java Monkey during the Decatur Book Festival–everyone’s, not just mine, heheh –but then somehow I got distracted and the week got away from me. And now it’s 9 days later, … Continue reading
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