nylon + insulation + zippers = heart

osarinainkorea:

solo exhibition by oh hye-seon.  hearts made from nylon stockings, insulation and massive amounts of zippers.

nylon + insulation + zippers = heart

osarinainkorea:

solo exhibition by oh hye-seon.  hearts made from nylon stockings, insulation and massive amounts of zippers.

Behind the scenes: the making of the breakfast blog!

Behind the scenes: the making of the breakfast blog!

“university creative-writing courses situate writers in the world that most of their readers inhabit—the world of mass higher education and the white-collar workplace. Sticking writers in a garret would isolate them. Putting them in the ivory tower puts them in touch with real life.”

the curious conclusion of a new yorker article eli recommended to me…

writing exercise


* Get someone to write for you, pretending they are you.



(courtesy of Bernadette Mayer)

“Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, much less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back content so that we can see the thing at all.”

Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation
“There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world.”

“I am exaggerating of course. Like a book.” -M.R.
Yes poetry still makes me feel shattered.

Yes poetry still makes me feel shattered.

“Connoisseurs of reading are very silly people. But as Thomas Merton said, one day you wake up and realize religion is ridiculous and that you will stick with it anyway. What love is ever any different?”

Mary Ruefle, again
Oh Mary Ruefle you slay me.
(Thanks, Sarah, for brightening my subway ride with A Little White Shadow)

Oh Mary Ruefle you slay me.

(Thanks, Sarah, for brightening my subway ride with A Little White Shadow)

This is what workshop comments from Sharon Olds look like. Could I be more charmed? (No.)

This is what workshop comments from Sharon Olds look like. Could I be more charmed? (No.)