Archive for 'Collected Writings'
Updates Of Joy and Disappointing Nature
Poetry: In my hands is the Dos Passos Review Volume #7, Issue #1. On its 46th page is the poem, “South China Sea” — my poem. I’m critical of it. I don’t like the spacing — I like my poems bunchy, contained. Some of my lines, now that they are memorialized on paper don’t spring [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2010 under Blog, Collected Writings.
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Breakthrough(s)/Switchback(s)
I’ve pined for a breakthrough. Something to re-invigorate. In the weeks prior to my anniversary in late May, I felt a strong pull to get away from the emotional dependence on writing. In spite of the strong flow of story (evidenced by the stacks of sketches on the desk) my sense was that the emotional [...]
Posted: July 10th, 2010 under Collected Writings.
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elimae: Ghost Story
Without much adieu, here is the poem “Ghost Story” as published on-line by elimae magazine. Click here for the poem. To make appropriate note, this poem took on a radical change in publication. It was, as written, a landscape poem; it wasn’t meant to be written and viewed in portrait form. The editor, Coop Renner [...]
Posted: April 18th, 2010 under Blog, Collected Writings.
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Poem Picked Up: Dos Passos Review
One of my favorite of my own poems, “South China Sea” has been picked up. Finally. After dozens of submissions. I received word last week from the Dos Passos Review out of Longwood, Virginia that they were accepting it for June of 2010 and may also consider it for their website. This is exciting and [...]
Posted: April 18th, 2010 under Blog, Collected Writings.
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Death, A Conversation, Turning A Poetic Corner
On the phone yesterday. A lot, it turned out although the morning didn’t promise such a thing. With a sick dog in my life who eventually passed in the early evening, it felt like I was always talking to someone. Always relaying messages and information. The vet and her advice. My wife who was in [...]
Posted: March 20th, 2010 under Collected Writings, Commentary.
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Poems In The Deronda Review
It’s been a few months since I heard of my acceptance from The Deronda Review but to my surprise in the mail on Saturday I finally got my two contributor copies. Volume III. Issue #1, Fall and Winter of 2009-10. Immediately I opened the 8 1/2 x 11 magazine up and looked down the list [...]
Posted: January 31st, 2010 under Collected Writings.
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Influence Of Genre
The new year 2010 has brought it’s usual brood of bad weather outside and renewed writing focus inside. My desk is absolutely teeming with ideas, the pile growing beside the computer, the “kitchen sinks” as I like to call them are filling. I can’t seem to contain that story churn characteristic. Unlike what I detailed [...]
Posted: January 21st, 2010 under Collected Writings.
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Noel Coward Poem
her name found written in a book of Noel Coward’s letters: Andrea Drinard
Posted: January 3rd, 2010 under Collected Writings.
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Charles Bukowski: Coming Up As Writer Today
“Love Is A Dog From Hell” rejected for it’s unmarketable title. Bar fighters (especially the loud ones, the mad ones) don’t improve their pugilistic. They make the evening news circuit. Live at 5:00, 6:30 and 11:00. Face notorious. Updates on-line regarding their whereabouts. No novel, Post Office. The arcade of whores and “mad women” who [...]
Posted: December 26th, 2009 under Collected Writings.
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Promise Before The Sword: Act I
October 19th, 2009 First day of writing the feature length, Promise Before The Sword. Using Blake Snyder’s “Beat Sheet” as a guidepost, I hand sketched out the first five pages of screen time (through “Theme Stated”). All of these scenes have been hashed out in concept months ago. These are the scenes for setting tone [...]
Posted: October 23rd, 2009 under Collected Writings.
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