So quiet.
When I thought about this, I didn't
think it would be so quiet.
So that is a segment from Revenant.
I worked on that which now is about 32 poems for three years,
which--
yeah.
It just when you think of it that way
you're like, oh, my gosh why don't
I-- why am I not writing something else that
has more bulk?
But after that I spent a lot of-- there
were a lot of constraints that I put on myself to write that.
One of them was everything that I wanted to write
or thought about I had to filter through the idea of self
as it related to imagination in this place.
And so after that project, after a period of recovery
where I felt like I wanted to go out and see my friends.
And I also wanted to write in what
to me felt like a completely different way.
And I see now it's really not.
But I wanted something where everything could go in
and where I had no constraints and where I felt--
Let me back up and say I think what's
interesting-- one thing that's interesting about Revenant
to me is everything that's left out
which speaks as much to the project
as everything that was included.
And so with this next project, which is a book--
a chapbook to be published by Morgan and CUE
Editions this spring I wanted everything to go in.
I thought of it as my post authenticity project.
And I also want to say you met Morgan as a name that came up
in Revenant.
And just a really special thank you to--
sorry.
But as a writer you really-- you have to have a community.
And Morgan has just been the bedrock of mine
and so thank you.
I didn't think I was going to cry.
But I cry a lot about things like this
so why am I surprised.
But, no.
But I mean, in addition to being the publisher of this project,
he's just really been a supporter.
And really like I said, he's really
been the glue that's kept my artistic community together
and I'm just so thankful.
So that said, this project also are poems that connect,
they also don't have titles, and they're also
prose poems which I said I wasn't going
to do this to my friends who've only been to one poetry reading
in their lives.
But this is what they look like.
Just big blocks of text.
And I want to say that because a lot of people think of poems
is based on a fragment in the line.
And for me they're--
I don't know if it's the journalistic roots?
But to me I wanted something-- for whatever reason,
I just keep writing like this.
So these also don't have titles and I'll read them together,
and I think they're ideas that speak to each other as well.
Oh, and I should mention one last thing.
This project yet is untitled, so if anyone has any ideas
my email is stephanie@voicesinc.org.
I'm taking suggestions.
So far we just haven't landed on the one.
I think I'm stalling.