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Neruda Pastiche Finished Well, almost... First of all it's a first draft. So I'll return to the poem to work on lyricism, word choice, and phrasing. Second of all, it's only 95% finished. Meaning, there are 3-4 missing…
Neruda Pastiche for Braided Sorrow A pastiche is an intentional imitation. At least in poetry. When I took International Poetry at USF we had to write pastiches every week, that is whatever poet we were studying that we…
An Incurable Condition: Poetry On The Mind I don't know what it is about yesterday and today, but I have poetry on my mind. Perhaps it was the conversation I had yesterday with one of my SOTA students. Y has been critiq…
Yes, I'm Still A Poet, Part Duex If you'll recall, earlier this week I dug out a poem in order to incorporate it into one of the plays I'm writing. Doing so reminded me that I've been focusing solely on theatre for a…
Yes, I'm Still A Poet I've been writing poetry for more than 10 years. In fact I moved to San Francisco in 2002 in order to seriously study my craft as a poetry student at the University of San Francisco. Lately I've…
Having An Opinion Is Hard Work Today my decisions on the Young At Art submissions I read are due. And let me say it was very difficult choosing between submissons. Sometimes it was clear who I wanted to select for the…
Breakthrough! Wednesday morning as part of my daily commute I was thinking about the MTC commission. I was thinking about Lalo. How was I going to get Lalo out of the psych ward? In fact, I've been thinking about this…
4th Annual Intergenerational Writers Lab: Reading at Intersection for the Arts Last night my friend Laura and I attended a reading at Intersection forthe Arts. IWL is a project of three arts organizations in the…
Editor's Choice I received an email yesterday from the good people at BorderSenses saying that one of my poems is being featured on their website as part of their Editor's Choice section that highlights artists and th…
Hodgepodge: All Sorts of News Earlier this week I recieved an email from somone at the Young at Art Festival, a San Francisco youth arts festival. According to the email Octavio Solis recommended them to me (he told m…