"And now it’s time for novel writing, which today comes from the West Country, from Dorset." Narrative is so fundamentally different from lyric. This is kind of obvious, but writing both of them, I'm amazed by the different muscles they employ, and...

That's one of my own lines. From an untitled (they're all untitled) severance song:After form fails a furling, reports dying away, look away. The panicle sprouts from the clavicle, from spinal grimace, ribs fasicled by the itch of a glance that...

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti In my intro to creative writing class this past Tuesday, a student asked a crucial question. Roughly paraphrased, she said something like, Okay, I see the value of paratactic and dissociative writing. But how can we learn to...

"...at least some of the time, disorientation begets creative thinking."

Actually, that's very far from what I am, as teacher and family man. And Facebook keeps me well in touch with a wide range of peeps. That said, I have increasingly fewer impulses of the sort that lead me to blog here, leading to an endless succession...