what the world needs now, is bathroom poetry, sweet bathroom poetry …
November 19, 2008
(Click on the excerpt to find out more about the project.)
the question isn’t are you willing to wear a white poetry bikini then wade into cold, cold water. it’s why *aren’t* you willing to do so.
November 18, 2008
When: Noon, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008
Where: Green Lake Bath House, Seattle, Washington
We’ve all seen poetry. We’ve seen bikinis. We’ve seen cold water. But have we seen all three in one place? I don’t think so.
A group of brave souls in white poetry-printed bikinis will take the plunge for poetry this December in an event like no other. A.K. Allin, the mastermind behind this chilling event, is looking for 25 hardy individuals to join her. She also needs happy, warm, non-bikini volunteers to bear witness, to hand out towels and to take pictures.
And! She needs some polar bear poetry written just for the occasion — so get to work and produce something “suitable.”
If you have a derriere (and my guess is you do), a poem or a thermos of cocoa to contribute, Allin asks you to contact her at mimiallin at gmail dot com.
I’m only able to catch the very beginning of this event, since I have a planning meeting for Home Alive that day, but I will be there as long as I can be. Whether I’ll be there in a bikini is another story. I haven’t decided yet. I do know I don’t look particularly good in white. It might be a public service for me to remain fully clothed and on the sidelines. (But no worries. I promise to at least stick my toes in the water.)
creativity and the disorganized brain
November 16, 2008
poet in myanmar sentenced for secret message
November 11, 2008
festival of the trees
November 1, 2008
(Click on the excerpt to read the entire piece.)
obama and the arts
November 1, 2008
(Click on the excerpt to read the entire piece.)
venus poetry project
October 26, 2008
(Click on the excerpt to visit the site and play along.)
matthew hittinger talks about why he writes
October 25, 2008
(Click on the excerpt to read the entire piece at Dustin Brookshire’s blog. Also, all I could utter after reading that excerpted paragraph was: “Yes, yes, yes!”)
jo hemmant’s ‘plus-sized’
October 24, 2008
(Click on the excerpt to read the entire piece.)
a gothic writing prompt
October 24, 2008
(Click on the excerpt to read the entire piece.)
This is my blog wherein I, Dana Guthrie Martin, write things and stuff. Most of the time, writing and I hobble along in a sort of three-legged race where there is no finish line. (more...)
An audience is a group of people listening. The more devotedly this is done, that is the more attentive one is to each sound and the more curiosity one has about those to come, the more an audience is an audience. — John Cage, from Zero: Contemporary Buddhist Life and Thought,” Vol. III, 1979.
-
beg, borrow, but don't steal
This work is licensed under Creative Commons. If you don’t credit Dana (by using her full name and preferably by linking back to the appropriate post) for however you copy, distribute, transmit or adapt her words, you are being bad. And naughty. And she will have her servant monkeys hunt you down and cut your hands off so you can never copy, distribute, transmit or adapt anyone’s work again and call it your own.
(Unless, of course, you were to use your butt cheeks to manipulate your keyboard with the copying, distributing, transmitting, adapting and whatnot, but Dana fortunately has only met one person whose butt cheeks are that talented. He could play a major third on a piano using nothing but his ass. She kids you not.).
-
flick, flick, flick
-
i cannot be bought
