I'm looking for a few more students to come out this coming Sunday, December 20th for three hours
to join me for my Submission Blitz workshop. We will bring work, work in
progress, and lists of places to potentially submit. We will match work with
targets so that January 1 you are ready to come out of holiday haze ahead of
the game and eager to submit to new venues.
Remember
to bring your own list of targets to share and any hard copy zines you want to let us peruse as well as at least one in-process poem or short
story or project you are revising. I’ve printed out a copy of Tweetspeak Poetry's Submission Map for us to flag state by state to indicate where we’ve
published as a class. Bring a friend…you’ll keep one another accountable to your
goals!
All
the details here: Salvage Your December with Tania Pryputniewicz.
Interview Live at
r.k.v.r.y. Quarterly Literary Journal with Tina Pocha
Suffering was
incredibly grounding. It brought everything into perspective--what was
important, what was painful, what was undoing. It returned me to love—Tina Pocha
I had the honor of interviewing poet Tina Pocha this week
for r.k.v.r.y. Quarterly. You’ll find a link to her poetry and her reflections
on the gift of disclosure and other musings on addiction, the role of labels
such as “addict” or “poet,” and the ways Pocha’s childhood in India weaves
itself into her approach to valuing the process of writing poetry:
In Indian tradition,
the marriage of Shiva and Parvati is thought to be symbolic of the ultimate
integration of the soul, the achieving of enlightenment where we bring together
all the (seemingly) disparate parts of our selves into one whole. I’m tired of
living divided—head from heart, strength from tenderness—and poetry helps me to
bring it all together.
Quest 2016
I’ve committed to blogging in response to prompts offered by
Tracking Wonder’s December line up of visionaries. (Yes, you can still join us if you want to play in public across platform of your choice and/or in private Facebook Forum. To join, visit Tracking Wonder's Quest 2016 page; from that page, you can also view my short video about the work last year's Quest helped me develop with Tarot and Writing as well as videos by my stellar Quest mates and their projects). This year, I’m using the lens of the
Tarot and blogging in response to what I see as well as creating a synthesis
image of the cards in colored pencil. Most recent posts address:
The Star Card as Daydreaming Self…(Barry Kaufman’s
Daydreaming Prompt)
Re-visioning the Aeon Card Through Lens of Birth…(Seth Godin’s
Miss Me Prompt)
