2016 is still in the future. It is a prospect. A dream. One of many possibilities. I like the optimism and hope that holds hands with new things – it is untarnished, it hasn’t yet learned how to be jaded or world-weary. This is where I’m supposed to make resolutions and such, but I don’t […]
So, this year is almost gone, 2016 is almost here, and like most people, it’s time for me to take a look at what has transpired. Things forgotten, things to be remembered. I start with something I do better than talking about my own work, which is promoting the work I’ve read from others, and […]
So, life has been busy with Thanksgiving almost upon us. Shopping, unnatural amounts of carting the kids around, work, work, work, snow, winterizing the car, winterizing the house, snow, and so on. Add on the fact that everyone in the house has been taking turns being ill, and it’s been a long month. That said, […]
We’ve come a long way in four weeks. When we started, all I had was a general idea about a poem inspired by “The Stars are Projectors” by Modest Mouse. This was followed by research and an initial revision. Most recently, I transformed the poem into a short-lined, syllabic piece, but was left with inconsistencies […]
Last week I made some changes to the original poem began two weeks ago after doing some research. I then took the blocks of text and added line breaks. After that process this is what I had: The moon before, on summer nights when the day’s water was on our skin, sweat, blue, like it […]
Last week we began a poem based on personal experience and “The Stars Are Projectors” by Modest Mouse. To refresh, here’s what we had: The moon before, on summer nights when the day’s water was on our skin, sweat, blue, like it wasn’t real, and it wasn’t real, it was just a ghost light shining […]
So, I’m working on some new poems, and I thought I would offer a glimpse of what goes into me writing one, from start to finish. As I go, readers should see how the process of writing informs the poem, how the poem is not just some static entity we read in a book or […]
I’ve been sick this week. In the middle of summer, somehow, pneumonia wormed its way into my lungs and has spread through my household. Of course, this has meant a good amount of sleep, not so much work, and waking hours spent binge-watching Once Upon A Time on Netflix. Fairy tales are the source of […]
So, I wrote a blog post. I wrote two reviews. I kept my “Works” page updated. I got busy. And I forgot to write anything other than reports and stories and poems. A little more clearheaded, I’m asking: Can we start over? Yes? Great. Writing has occupied my nights, and I have some wonderful recent […]
Rather new on the flash scene is freeze frame fiction. Edited by Dino Laserbeam, this quarterly publication recently put it’s first volume up for sale on Amazon, and the contents of volume ii are available for free on the freeze frame fiction website. Both volumes have fantastic artwork from Luke Spooner. As a first reader […]
NOLAN LIEBERT 