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The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page:
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.
Sitting on this same bench, facing the sea
You saw me knee deep in tears, as if
I was fighting my childhood and my age
And struggling against myself.
You saw me knee deep in tears, as if
I was drowning, again, because of you
And struggling against myself:
Furiously, I reached for the shore.
I was drowning again, because of you:
The salt was burning, reddening the scars.
Furiously, I reached for the shore
Was a live blade under every step I took.
The salt was burning, reddening the scars
Inside your chest. The steady beating drum
Was a live blade: under every step I took
Slowly crushed the coil.
Inside your chest the steady beating drum
Kept beating pace by pace, ignoring me.
Slowly crushed the coil
And every wave was harmful.
Kept beating pace by pace, ignoring me,
The sea, under the darkest autumn sky
And every wave was harmful
Sitting on this same bench, facing the sea.
(Pantoum by SiRiChandra)
Ilka trifft Will Smith im Hyatt.. Wie eine typische Interview Suite im Hayatt in Berlin aussieht, zeigt uns Ilka in dem kurzen Film "Ilka's Welt" auf www.youtube.com/dosenkino
Creative Writing Professor Michael Knight reading at the July Friends of Literacy "Burgers for Books" Event
A skein of ideas, images, views:
So little time to think, so long the day
And winter coming. I knit warmer garments
Hoping for spring, of course; my hands busy
In the manual work, my eyes skipping
From the book to the needles,
From the needles to the yarn.
For there is no difference from meditating:
I immerse myself in the tangle
And avoid the knots.
(Free verse, SiRiChandra)
We try to use fewer words, making their meaning
Significant to ourselves, in a clean way.
We talk too much and any time we’re leaning
To sputter words when we have nought to say.
I am a talker, and I love words as sound
I love their taste and colour on my lips
Passing the gates of teeth they will resound
Horses and horsemen on their iron trips.
Sometimes I’m lost, because my words have no
Significance to you: ‘cause I believe
That you would understand the things I know
And what I do not say you will receive.
After a rave of words, when side by side we lie
We brush off broken speeches, the crumbles of today.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
We are passionate about bringing a relaxed approach while creating beautiful, natural and vibrant images.
We are passionate about bringing a relaxed approach while creating beautiful, natural and vibrant images.
On 3 July 2018, participants of English PEN's Brave New Voices programme came together for a special celebration event. The evening marked the launch of latest anthology The Future House with readings from the book.
Brave New Voices is English PEN's ongoing creative writing outreach programme for young people from refugee and asylum-seeker backgrounds.
Photo: Suzi Corker
Julian Wicks reads during the Uncanny Senior Symposium for Literature Majors was held in the Old Main Lincoln Room on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
I am a girl, but if I was a male
Would you love me so much to kiss my lips?
You say the strength of love is a hot gale
That my clothes and my will strokes and rips.
Are you sure you’re a girl? ‘Cause my blond hair
Is much longer that yours; and my slim neck
Is more slender than yours; and I can’t bear
To guess no more. And so, let’s check.
Do you think you may ask me to unveil
My secrets at first meet? I wonder why
You believe there are proofs that cannot fail.
And so, let’s kiss before we say goodbye.
Closed the velvet curtain, they kissed, hidden by shame:
And when their lips were joined, then love could say its name.
(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)
Uncanny Senior Symposium for Literature Majors was held in the Old Main Lincoln Room on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
Poets Sarah Vap, Dexter L. Booth, and Patricia Colleen Murphy read from their recent work at the Hayden Library on the Tempe Campus. This public reading was followed by a book signing and reception with light refreshments.
Sarah Vap received her MFA from Arizona State University. Vap is the author of six collections of poetry. Her most recent book, "Viability," was selected by Mary Jo Bang for the National Poetry Series, and was released by Penguin in 2016.
Dexter L. Booth earned an MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University. His collection "Scratching the Ghost" was selected by Major Jackson for the Cave Canem Poetry Prize.
Patricia Colleen Murphy, a graduate of ASU's MFA Program in Creative Writing, founded Superstition Review at Arizona State University, where she teaches creative writing and magazine production. Her collection, "Hemming Flames," was selected by Stephen Dunn for the May Swenson Poetry Award.
Sydney Bieber reads during the Uncanny Senior Symposium for Literature Majors was held in the Old Main Lincoln Room on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
I am a decentered circle
my weight shifts and shifts
and falls and falls
I am trapped by my instability
weighed down by my weight
How much a star must suffer
No loose ends swim in my waters
I tie them all to my belt
dragging the load of certainly with me
Always upstream
never with the current
that is my path
my determination
my choice
My will is strong
but its content
undetermined
All I have is drive
but I channel it
into empty ravines
Remembrance and regrets
they too are part of venture
Life is too overwhelming
as that a single voice
could ever capture it all
I love you precisely because
you possess a strong commitment
to challenging paradigms of oppression
Float untied
The knot’s a noose
Should I fly
yes I should
I should sore like an eagle
but there is no flight
no reaching up high
without learning to float
Which birds are stupid
enough to fly carelessly
their flight is perilous
but skill carves out
a space for safety
This is where I crank ideas.
I happen to own a laptop as well as a desktop pc, and so far, I established the habit of working on my laptop and using my desktop to surf / play games / make music / whatnot.
Btw, pardon the b/w photo, I was feeling kinda arty.
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.
ENGL 016-301
Instructor: SUSAN BEE
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Studio visit with Amze Emmons in South Philadelphia.
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Amze Emmons is a Philadelphia-based, multi-disciplinary artist with a background in drawing and printmaking. His images evoke a sense of magical/minimal realism inspired by architectural illustration, comic books, cartoon language, information graphics, news footage, consumer packaging, and instruction manuals.
Emmons received a BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University and a MA and MFA from the University of Iowa. He has held solo exhibitions in, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, among other locations. His work has been included in group exhibitions in innovative commercial galleries, artist-run spaces, and non-profit institutions. Emmons has received numerous awards including a Fellowship in the Arts from the Independence Foundation; an Individual Creative Artist Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Arts Council; and a Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. His work has received critical attention in The Huffington Post, Itsnicethat.com, Coolhunting.com, New American Paintings, as well as many other print publications. He is currently an Associate Professor at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. Emmons is also a co-founder and co-contributing editor of the popular art blog, Printeresting.org.
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The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, students, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
Feel free to stop by my facebook page:
The Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University presents the Stellar Alumni Reading Series, a mixed-genre reading of poetry and prose with Iliana Rocha (MFA 2008) and Vedran Husić (MFA 2013).
About the Authors
Iliana Rocha earned her PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. Her work has been featured in the Best New Poets 2014 anthology, as well as The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Blackbird, and West Branch. Karankawa, her debut collection, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and is available through the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Central Oklahoma and lives with her three chihuahuas Nilla, Beans, and Migo.
Vedran Husić was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and raised in Germany and the United States. His collection of stories, Basements and Other Museums, won the St. Lawrence Book Award and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2018. He has work published in The Gettysburg Review, The Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, Ecotone, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of fellowships from The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the National Endowment for the Arts.
ASU Tempe campus
Thursday, Mar. 14, 2019
Ed Passi (c) at work as a writer—publications and advertising days.
Buddy AE Neal Travert (L) had since returned to Texas.
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showing exhibits from the Express Yourself competition hosted by Yale College, Wrexham during February 2012.
left hand picture - "Granny shares her library book" by Craig Pearce - Glamorgan Gates, Merthyr Tydfil (1st place - Visual Art - Voluntary/Community Organisations)
middle picture - "Through Dylan Thomas' Eyes" by Thomas Richards Centre, Blaenau Gwent (1st place - Visual Art - Secondary School)
right hand picture - "Daniel Owen a'l waith" by Cymdeithas Brodwaith Cymru (Ammanford) (2nd place - Visual Art - Voluntary/Community Organisations)
Jaynee Bowker reads during the Uncanny Senior Symposium for Literature Majors was held in the Old Main Lincoln Room on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
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On 3 July 2018, participants of English PEN's Brave New Voices programme came together for a special celebration event. The evening marked the launch of latest anthology The Future House with readings from the book.
Brave New Voices is English PEN's ongoing creative writing outreach programme for young people from refugee and asylum-seeker backgrounds.
Photo: Suzi Corker
Better not to look at the pictures
Coming from the past. Faces long forgotten,
People long forgotten, names that don’t come to mind.
Some of them are no more with us.
Coming from the past, faces long forgotten
Look at you from the screen.
Some of them are no more with us,
And despite this, we remember their names more easily.
Look at you! From the screen
Unwrinkled, shiny eyes
(And despite this, we remember their names more easily)
Here comes the band, and you are among them.
Unwrinkled, shiny eyes
Over velvety cheeks
Here comes the band - and you are among them -
Staring at the floor, copycatting a Yes album cover.
Over velvety cheeks,
The band aims to look grown up, professional
Staring at the floor, copycatting a Yes album cover.
Look at them: they appear more childish.
The band aims to look grown up, professional.
Sporting school jumpers, cheap jeans,
- Look at them - they appear more childish
And still we don’t remember their names.
Sporting school jumpers, cheap jeans,
They are our brothers, our lovers,
And still we don’t remember their names:
Better not to look at the pictures.
(Pantoum by SiRiChandra)
An old picture of the Ilios, late '70.
Someone is no more with us.