First Reading / Upcoming Revisions

My first reading from A Meditation on the Misplaced occurred on Friday, November 12 at Living Arts in Tulsa, as part of the Oklahoma Avant Garde Poetry Reading.

It's probably kind of surprising that such a thing even exists. Nobody would think we have art here, but we do. Walking around the Brady and Blue Dome Districts, I passed by about eight art studios, and I was really surprised.

---

In other news, my goal is to revise the book by December 10th, when I imagine the semester must be ending for those in school. The revisions will be minor, fixing some formatting errors on italicized text by replacing them with scanned images of that text in my handwriting, as well as moving one page from the end toward the beginning. If I feel like it, I'll add some more writing in the end as well.

Ideas for New Projects

My digital camera doesn't work anymore, so I will rely more on the scanner for now, and develop a few rolls of film.

I have a bunch of Polaroids that didn't fit into the final version of A Meditation on the Misplaced, so I'll have to do something with those. I'm picturing small, handmade books, or at least ones that feature a lot of scanned in handwriting, doodles, and "marginalia." (See, I'm still obsessed with Susan Howe.)

Resurrect an old textbook and try to inject some life into it, and/or let its concepts inform my writing.

Write about the poetics of blending / merging in a way that (sort of) makes sense.

I can see relationships between many different things that interest me, and I want to express them, but sometimes it is overwhelming, and I don't know where exactly to go next. I think I'll let my mind take a stroll through Paul Auster's worlds of urban alienation for a while, and if my identity remains intact when I emerge, we'll see what happens :)