#whatshouldwecallpoets: Archive

Poets and publishers, CJ Martin and Julia Drescher, are two of many currently experiencing the aftershocks of last week’s tornado that ripped through Oklahoma and Texas. Martin and his partner, Julia Drescher, are asking for your help as they assist CJ’s mom, who is uninsured and suffered life-threatening injuries as a result of the storm, […]

May 24, 20132 notes

loveforcjmartinandjuliadrescher:

Chris Martin (known to many of you as CJ) and Julia Drescher have suffered a tragic loss. Chris lost both his father and his grandmother in the tornadoes in Granbury this week. His mother survived but she is just out of the ICU. The family does not have medical or burial insurance. There has…

May 21, 20138 notes

May 10, 2013171 notes

My Writing "process"

May 7, 201349 notes

#whatshouldwecallpoets #poetry #writing process #futility

“Events like this as well as the Writers Guild of America strike of 2007 and 2008 remind us also how unreliable is the usual equation of “skilled worker = complacent business unionist; industrial unskilled worker = revolutionary radical.” As the work of labor historian David Montgomery has emphasized, skilled workers frequently have more direct control over the production process than their unskilled counterparts, and more to lose as managers attempted to increase productivity by taking away control of the production process.” —

At the Barricades with E! Writers

(A must-read)

May 4, 201312 notes

When someone calls me a poetess