February 2012
75 posts
“how does one go about creating a “fake” feeling? and to what uses might an...”
– sianne ngai, ugly feelings (via karaj)
the poet Dean Young says “the blood may be fake but the bleeding has to be real.”
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“I’m struggling to know what to do with all this loss.”
– J. today in queer histories seminar.
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My obsessions, according to my advisor today
Gender, monstrousness, perception, whimsy with a dark undercurrent, hybridity, language, consciousness, praise, love, self vs. other, change vs. permanence, boats, sailors, clowns, journeys, discovery.
So is that too long for a book title…?
poetheads
: hey do you have any greens you could bring to dinner?
: yeah I just bought an ounce.
: no, I mean like... kale?
: oh, yeah, I have a bag of that too. I'll bring it.
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“Desire: yes: the sudden knowledge, like coming out of ‘flu’, that the body is...”
– Adrienne Rich, Re-forming the Crystal
“you were not the source”
“this desire was mine”
for the lover who made you not-bored, the lover who made you think you were boring
“it could be used a hundred ways” (and one of those ways could be feminist leaving, feminist burning bridges, queer art of...
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“I want to say that at least for certain (“queer”) people, shame is simply the...”
– Sedgwick, in “Queer Performativity: Henry James’ The Art of the Novel”
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“I take the precious, devalued arts of gossip… to have to do not even so...”
– Eve Sedgwick, from the Introduction to Epistemology of the Closet
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We're writing Szymborska (RIP) imitations this... →
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“Nothing’s sacred for those who think.
Calling things brazenly by name,...”
– Szymborska, from her poem “An Opinion on the Question of Pornography”
“I have become obsessed with dialogue.
Do tell.
Well, at work I endeavor to...”
– My friend Suzanne is now blogging, and it’s already brilliant.
Hey, message me for my password. Please. Do it.
Hey y’all, I am moving over to oxxxenfree.tumblr.com so that I can password protect it (Tumblr wouldn’t let me do it to my main blog.) If you would like to keep following me over there (and I wish you would), will you send me a message/fan mail/whatever it is on here, and I’ll respond with the password?
the secret lives of your creative writing...
me: sometimes I get nervous that I'll accidentally tumble something personal in my students' tumblr.
hrob: don't worry, I showed a boob to my student today.
“Poems I don’t entirely hate.”
– Working title of my manuscript
POP FEMINIST PERBLOG: HEY EVERYONE: A ZINE! →
rgr-pop:
Katy and I have been talking for a while about collaborating on a zine project about the ways that we’ve been silenced by dude feminist allies in radical spaces. 2012 has been a bad year for male allies, right? (jk, all years are bad years for male allies)
Anyway, I found out I’ll be for sure…
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Performative wholesomeness: Maureen responds to... →
farmhaus:
I received “I love crushes more than real things” (unthinkable creatures publishing) via Kristen Stone of queeragripoetics.tumblr.com. It was incredible. Flipping through it, seeing the words I had thumbed through my iPhone delivered thousands of miles back in analog was…
I waited to read “I love crushes more than real things” until Valentines Day, even though I’d...
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“I’m thinking of Kafka, because he is someone who, in the writing/living...”
– Hélène Cixous, in an interview with Henri Quere, 1984, from white ink.
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This morning, when I was walking home across the isthmus in last night’s clothes, I had an Indigo Girls song stuck in my head (“we’ll leave the figuring to those we pass on the way out of town”) and I was shifting a bag of groceries from hand to hand and thinking about how my parents are coming up next weekend and suddenly I remembered.
It’s been almost exactly one...
co: I'm listening to Tom Waits
ob: I'm in bed, staring at the ice dream poem, which I've tentatively titled LOVERS.
co: guess it's winter.
“If you really want to be trans-genre, I think you have to leave behind your...”
– L.F. at our poetics coffee this morning.
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WE WILL
karaj:
“who will write the history of tears?”—roland barthes, a lover’s discourse: fragments
I love this. karaj, you know what’s up.
“…the loss of the past might carry an erotic charge.”
– carolyn dinshaw, getting medieval: sexualities and communities, pre- and post-modern (via karaj)
Ah, yeah. I just got out of seminar and we were talking about this very thing. Someone in class actually termed the kind of pleasure we GET from the archive as a “Hitachi epiphany” (vs. the...
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Can’t get over the fact that Underworks ships binders with return address “Simple Solutions, Inc.” SIMPLE FOR WHOM? Will ponder this.
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Autostraddle loves Glitter Tongue! →
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“FATHER DEAR. BE, YOUR FATHER-GOOD AND GOOD,
HE IS GOOD NOW, IT IS NOT GOOD TO...”
– a letter e.e. cummings wrote to his father at age six. (SIX!)
“Since I’m nothing on T, at fireplaces I thoughtless it wounded be hardworking be...”
– poem thing in progress?
You guys, I love teaching and all, but
there are a million things I’d rather do this afternoon than try to keep a grown-up face while talking about Tension and Climax in the short stories of Flannery O’Connor. Which is why I’m going to take my students on a surprise field trip to see Lynda Barry talk about cartooning and myopia and spaghetti.
The sexiest part of sex in the upper Midwest in...
…is that part where you get to be like, “SURPRISE! I’m wearing longjohns!”
& I heard her roar loudly: "Hey, world!": Things... →
genderbitch:
Tomato
Tapdancers
Trogdor The Dragon
Trains
Taurine
Those People Who Are Totally Just Gay
Tesla
Tag
Tortillas
That awkward moment when everyone’s talking about homophobia and gay vs. straight and still uses the T
Tumblr
T-Bone Steak
T-shirt
Tabard
Testicles
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“Here, glittertonguing, we all try, in concert, to say love and mean something...”
– Tamiko, in our poetic intro to Glitter Tongue.
ultramariconeria: Queer reading list for getting... →
ultramaricon:
A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (Barthes, Roland)
Codependent No More (Beattie, Melody)
The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities (Easton, Dossie)
Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Freeman, Elizabeth)
All About Love: New Visions (hooks, bell)
Fear of Flying…
Love this. Would also add:
A Dialogue on Love (Sedgwick)
Glitter Tongue →
I launched this labor of love today: 30 queer love poems including some by yr Tumblr favorites, including ultramaricon, queeragripoetics, ecrivaine, & me.
love is the most important project →
queeragripoetics:
[[GLITTER TONGUE: love poems by 30 queer and trans poets! live today! extra special!]]
“I know, daddy, you’re a woman. But on some level, who isn’t?”
– Jack, from the Yentl scene of Will & Grace
“to me, writing is about being a prude: the squeamish pleasure of writing...”
– queeragripoetics (via karaj)
yes, this. & the pleasure part is key. otherwise it’s just… squeam.
Here are some ramblings that may or may not be related. I think that workshop is a kind of very ritualized agreement to mutually receive whatever breaks in decorum we turn in each week...
“Wearing earrings in one ear (on the right lobe) is considered as a mark of...”
– Why Do Men Wear Earrings. Posting this because I just got one ear pierced over the weekend. Am I really a homo and a hippie, or are the criminals just trying to misguide us?
“Criticism that hands down sentences sends me to sleep; I’d like a...”
– Foucault, in a 1980 interview with Le Monde in Paris
“how the “doomed labour” of the avant-garde might be redeemed: “If we want to...”
– Jennifer Moore quoting Christian Bök in her excellent new essay on contemporary poetry and the aesthetics of failure, in Jacket2.
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when you're lost and lonely
sc: have you ever done a writing between the lines? where you take a poem and double space it?
me: only once
sc: that is what i sometimes do when im lost and lonely
“Time frolics when you’re having fags.”
– my partner, on how quickly this week went.
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“Do not be deterred by the biological complexity of the transformation. That...”
– Wild Fermentation, instructions on how to make sauerkraut.
Big night out
I have an antibiotic in one pocket and a brachiopod in the other.
I am going to write an epic poem called “the last of the lentil soup.”
“I’m an American girl and I’m the junk food queen. I still have a banana split...”
– Lana Del Rey, interviewed by Steve Bateman 2010 (via fagcity)
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“xo etc.”
– WHAT IS THE ET CETERA?
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“Sometimes in these early sessions, Shannon says about why he became a therapist:...”
– Eve Sedgwick, from A Dialogue on Love