Category: Communications
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Communications Log: All sorts of egg on my face over here.
Specifically, there are three types of egg on my face. First, I misremembered something in a big way because I was trying too hard to do a thing that didn’t make sense. Once upon a time I shared the origin story of my first-ever epic poem, the pantoum Random Bearings. However, it wasn’t the origin…
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Communications Log: Permission to Hold Yourself Accountable
Want some Permission Slips + Accountability Slips to get you moving and grooving with your own poetry writing? The creative process brings up a lot of feelings for most everyone. Sometimes you’re scared to commit something to the page for fear of someone reading it and then hating it or hating you. Sometimes you feel…
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Communications Log: Biscuits and Gravy and Poetry
I’m nervous to admit this (a strange thing to say for someone who in the 3rd grade farted while a fake volcano was erupting and hasn’t been embarrassed since), but I kinda wrote my very first epic poem because of a boy. [ cue everyone’s eyes rolling so far back into their heads they’re at…
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Communications Log: Morning Writing Streaming 3 Days A Week
Woah, Nelly, has it ever been a minute since I did this. So go easy on me. I’m out of practice. As of this writing, I’m livestreaming Monday through Wednesday mornings for 3.5 hours of writing accountability followed by a share-what-you-did chat. I’ve done this “shared digital workspace” thing three times before and all three…
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Communications Log: The Flowing Frontier
I’m gonna level with you: if this site didn’t have a hefty Star Trek schtick, it would’ve had some other schtick. Because to my mind poetry and math/science/progress just fit together. When writing poems, poets are always looking for the perfect word or turn of phrase to convey all the meanings in a single line.…