3rd Annual 30/30/30 Poetry Month Series :: Inspiration, Community, Tradition :: Day 1 :: Introduction and CHY RYAN SPAIN on KAREN FINLEY
The Operating System is thrilled to welcome you to our 3rd Annual 30-on-30-in-30 Poetry Month Celebration! In this wildly popular series, begun in 2012, we invite creative people from a range of backgrounds to share a story about how their
EDITORIAL:: #WORLDPOETRYDAY :: AWARENESS, INTENTION, GRATITUDE
A question to our creative audience - poets and non poets alike: if we imagine ourselves in an epic, global room, whose hand would I see raise when asked if you were aware that today is World Poetry Day, an
COMMUNITY :: THE INSTITUTE OF NARRATIVE GROWTH : CAITS MEISSNER and MARK GONZALES
There is nothing more at the heart of The Operating System than a deep belief in the transformative power of creative practice -- of storytelling and narrative practice, in particular. In light of that, nothing could give me more pleasure
A VERY SPECIAL INVITATION to THE 3rd ANNUAL POETRY MONTH 30-on-30-in-30 SERIES
The Operating System is thrilled to invite you to participate in the 3rd Annual 30-on-30-in-30 Poetry Month Celebration! In this series, we invite creative people from a range of backgrounds to share a story about how their work has been
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 29 :: MORGAN VO on MINA LOY
“I was trying,” Mina Loy observed in 1927, with reference to her polyglot, punning, scholastic, asyntactic, unpunctuated free-verse poems, “to make a foreign language, because English had already been used.” Read more: http://marjorieperloff.com/reviews/loy-mysteries/#ixzz2Rp0FfojT Under Creative Commons License: Attribution from Morgan Vo, on and of Mina
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 28 :: BUD BERKICH on WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
William Carlos Williams: Backyard Artist I first experienced the poetry of William Carlos Williams in the fall of 1994, as an English major at Rutgers College. For me, it was an unforgettable experience. Williams' poetry shaped my own writing and philosophy
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 27 :: BENJAMIN WIESSNER on HARRYETTE MULLEN
I am going to start with an admission—I have a deep and varied past with the poetry of Harryette Mullen. Her masterpiece, Sleeping with the Dictionary, opened my eyes to so many possibilities in poetry. The experience I had is described best by her line, “I’ve been licked all over by the English tongue.”
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 26 :: JASON GRABOWSKI on FRANK O'HARA
IT IS GOOD TO BE SEVERAL FLOORS UP IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT WONDERING WHETHER YOU ARE ANY GOOD OR NOT AND THE ONLY DECISION YOU CAN MAKE IS THAT YOU DID IT – THE ONLY THING TO DO IS SIMPLY CONTINUE IS THAT SIMPLE YES,
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 25 :: MATT GANO on JACK McCARTHY
I first met Jack McCarthy at the Seattle Poetry Slam in 2003. He was doing his normal “catch the crowd off guard” old-man routine on stage, blending his extreme charm and undeniable wit with true sentiment and a little bit
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 24 :: ELIZABETH CLARK WESSEL on GRACE PALEY
There is a long time in me between knowing and telling. My favorite Grace Paley stories have one-word titles: Wants, Debts, Love, Friends, Mother. Each is just a few pages long. To me they comprise a world literature. Expansive, weighty, inexhaustible. To
