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You will not turn. A pillar of coarse salt
You will become, a faceless white pilaster.
Leaving your misdemeanour could be a fault
But looking back at it is brings to disaster.
You may use mirrors: a mirror is a screen.
Medusa taught you that when you killed her.
She was up to destroy you: yet unseen
You turned and used a weapon of thin air.
But now again: don’t turn. Your shoulder blades
Will sprout up wings to lift you out of here
Your heels will grow two fins, and out of Hades
You’ll drift, and in a tick you’ll disappear.
The city is aflame. How can we both survive?
At our back a salt stone is thrown into a beehive.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
Woman at the Washington Zoo received the National Book Award for poetry in 1961. Here you can see the tremendous work Jarrell put into editing the poem.
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Dana Diehl
The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presented a reading and book signing by two of its stellar alumni: Dorothy Chan (MFA 2015) and Dana Diehl (MFA 2015).
About the Authors
Dorothy Chan is the author of Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, Forthcoming March 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). She was a 2014 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets, The Cincinnati Review, The Common, Diode Poetry Journal, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. Chan is the Editor of The Southeast Review. Visit her website at dorothypoetry.com
Dana Diehl is the author of Our Dreams Might Align (Splice UK, 2018) and TV Girls (New Delta Review, 2018). Her collaborative short story collection, The Classroom, is forthcoming from Gold Wake Press in early 2019. She earned her MFA in Fiction at Arizona State University and her BA in Creative Writing at the Susquehanna University Writers Institute. She has been an artist in residence at the Sundress Academy for the Arts, Signal Fire, and the Rutgers Camden Summer Writers' Conference. She lives and works in Tucson.
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018
ASU Tempe campus
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My hands hover
halfway in the air,
swelling the blood in my limbs.
I have attempted to sort through
signals and sounds scratching
in my head, crowding my conscious.
I have said I want Your will,
want to do Your will,
but on whose terms?
I claim to taste Your calling,
but I am warm in my bed
without a reason to release
myself from the comfort
wrapped over me.
You say to deny ourselves,
and I admit I cannot deny
this pulsing inside me,
steady, picking up speed.
You move in me,
twisting open doors
I’ve bolted in place.
For they are not my chambers
but Yours.
When You speak I want to listen.
Where You point I will follow.
My heart is hooked to the
back of Your caravan.
Here am I.
Send me.
Mike Cahill, a visiting screenwriter, meets with creative writing student David Harrison to review his script. Photo by: Philip Channing
Watching my hands, the palms, and seeing the lines
I remember my mother telling me:
“You’ll have a son and daughter, I see the signs
And a long life, and lovers, this I see”.
I never had a child to call my own
Or I had one – could I have forgot? -
Lost in a dream or nightmare, in the unknown
Dark of my past old life: in a weak spot.
And in my palm she saw my life, and what
She desired for me. But I trampled on
All what she wanted. I made a cleaver cut
With what she was. She had to agree upon.
They say you have to look at both your hand to know
Which one will be your future: your other hand will show.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
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www.nanowrimo.org - writing a 50 000 word novel in 30 days -
In 2008, I left my former life and one of the first things I did was nanowrimo. I wrote with a frenzy and obsession in a way similar to the way I had lived my life until then. It was a novel of ordinary office workers who had super powers in an alternate universe and saved the land of Zetoec from ultimate destruction but a price was paid. That year I wrote more on a blog about writing than I did in the novel. Personally it was a year of truly understanding my obsessions.
In 2009, I wrote "Inside Her Drawers" ... about a woman in her later years that is afraid of letting go of "her treasures" for she believes that it is only those treasures that keep her alive. Naturally, those treasures are lost at a time of significant change and the old woman dies. During nano last year, rather than do a blog, I posted a pic a day on Flickr as inspiration to keep writing and in doing so learned to trust the process. It is through that habit, I reconnected with the world in a way I did not imagine possible, and through that process of trust at a broader level I am where I am today.
Today in 2010, I will start nano for the third time. And for many reasons, today is also a day of new beginnings. As with the other years, I don;t have a specific storyline in mind - it will evolve ... I have a vague concept and I know the process will take care of its own. This year I want to honour the child, and especially the child within ... this year (hopefully) will be a children's story. I do know that there is a camel in this story.
.. and there is no better way than to start a story and a new beginning than with a blank sheet ... happy nanowrimo-ing and happy futures :)
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Christina had the Young Adults take an adventure in creative writing. First they went through some creativity exercises to loosen up the mind, then they wrote a story!
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Tired and dark, eyes are a pool of dream
Hoping in vain for rest, blinking and red.
Humming under my voice, I sing my theme.
When time is a dry brook, I float downstream
Letting the gloomy thoughts drop on its bed.
Tired and dark, eyes are a pool of dream
- Closed - to avoid the smallest gold sunbeam
- Open - to see the word that’s still unsaid.
Humming under my voice, I sing my theme.
The shade shows far away atoms agleam:
Maybe they’re real. Maybe I’ve been misled;
Tired and dark, eyes are a pool of dream.
I saw the lightings explode in my bloodstream
Pulsing away in colours as they bled:
Tired and dark, eyes are a pool of dream
Humming under my voice, I sing my theme.
(Villanelle by SiRiChandra)
That summer night we went down by the sea
To watch the fireworks, and I was then so small…
Perching on father’s shoulders I would see
The lights exploding. In my arms, my doll.
Walking, I raised my eyes to watch the faces
The lamppost light painted their skins in greens.
I felt so scared I tripped on my paces:
My parents turned into spine-chilling beings.
I could not ask: I was afraid of talking.
The neon lights were blazing their sick colour.
I watched my feet, bare in the sandals, walking,
My dolly’s face, my hands, and they discoloured.
I can’t remember fireworks, the nightmare dulled the show
That night I had for parents two persons I didn’t know.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
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The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presents a reading and book signing by two of its star alumni: Renee Simms, who earned a Master of Fine Arts in 2007, and Dustin Pearson, who earned a Master of Fine Arts in 2017.
About the authors
Renee Simms received her MFA from Arizona State University, a JD from Wayne State University Law School, and a BA from University of Michigan. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, was a John Gardner Fiction Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and received fellowships from Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center. In addition to teaching in the Rainier Writing Workshop, Renee teaches at University of Puget Sound where she is an associate professor of African American Studies and contributing faculty to English. Renee’s debut story collection Meet Behind Mars was a Foreword Indies Finalist for Short Stories and listed by The Root as one of 28 brilliant books by black authors in 2018. Renee is currently at work on a novel and a collection of linked essays.
Dustin Pearson is the author of Millennial Roost (C&R Press, 2018) and A Family Is a House (C&R Press, 2019). He is a McKnight Doctoral Fellow in Creative Writing at Florida State University. The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Pearson has served as the editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review and a Director of the Clemson Literary Festival. He won the Academy of American Poets Katharine C. Turner Prize and John Mackay Graduate Award and holds an MFA from Arizona State University. His work appears in Blackbird, Vinyl Poetry, Bennington Review, TriQuarterly, [PANK], Fjords Review, and elsewhere.
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The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English hosts alumni Allegra Hyde (MFA 2015) and H. Lee Barnes (MFA 1992) for a reading from their work.
Allegra Hyde is the author of the 2016 John Simmons Short Fiction Award winning collection “Of this New World.”
H. Lee Barnes is the author of numerous books including “Dummy Up and Deal,” “When We Walked Above the Clouds,” and “Minimal Damage.”
Dorothy Chan
The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presented a reading and book signing by two of its stellar alumni: Dorothy Chan (MFA 2015) and Dana Diehl (MFA 2015).
About the Authors
Dorothy Chan is the author of Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, Forthcoming March 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). She was a 2014 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Academy of American Poets, The Cincinnati Review, The Common, Diode Poetry Journal, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. Chan is the Editor of The Southeast Review. Visit her website at dorothypoetry.com
Dana Diehl is the author of Our Dreams Might Align (Splice UK, 2018) and TV Girls (New Delta Review, 2018). Her collaborative short story collection, The Classroom, is forthcoming from Gold Wake Press in early 2019. She earned her MFA in Fiction at Arizona State University and her BA in Creative Writing at the Susquehanna University Writers Institute. She has been an artist in residence at the Sundress Academy for the Arts, Signal Fire, and the Rutgers Camden Summer Writers' Conference. She lives and works in Tucson.
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018
ASU Tempe campus
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Port town in the far north of Israel; fantastic historical sites from the Crusader and Ottoman times
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I miss you more than I can say, you both,
A split image that is for me not cracked:
The one who loved me, the one that loves me not.
My silence does not mean that I forgot;
I am the mirror: you are still intact.
I miss you more than I can say, you both.
I know you are around, at my earshot
But I don’t know the song that could attract
The one who loved me, the one that loves me not.
Nobody told me how, nobody thought
To explain what it feels like being sidetracked.
I miss you more than I can say, you both.
And now I draw my rope, untying each knot
Searching and probing for the one that lacked:
The one who loved me, the one that loves me not.
I play it as it comes, I have no plot
And you may stay away or interact.
I miss you more than I can say, you both:
The one who loved me, the one that loves me not.
(Villanelle by SiRiChandra)