January 2012
8 posts
“Poor Naz. he wanted everything perfect, neat, wanted all matter organized and filed away so that it wasn’t mess. He had to learn too: matter’s what makes us alive- the bitty flow, the scar tissue, the signature of the world’s very first disaster and promissory note guaranteeing its last. Try to iron it out at your peril. Naz had tried, and it had fucked him up. I tried to make out what it was...
Neko Case, Christmas Card From A Hooker in...
If you attend Mount Allison,
and are a writer of poetry, prose, creative non fiction or any otherwise creative putter-of-words-on-a-page (creative putter, like in golf) then you should submit to Seven Mondays. Clearly I am not submitting. But you should. The deadline is January 7th! Send submissions to 7mondays@gmail.com
We are also looking for submissions of black and white photography. Drop them off at the Fine Arts...
December 2011
8 posts
King Krule, Bleak Bake
drinkin scotch and cutting paper- I am happy. I’m going to post some new art soon.
Adrianne Rich, Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying ”The possibilities that exist between two people, or among a group of people, are a kind of alchemy. They are the most interesting thing in life.”
(I wish I could find a better formated version of it online! Oh well.)
&
Hey winter, start acting like it.
☨: On Remembrance and Taking it Personally →
Kate says it best.
eeriergusts:
This was spurred by something I felt to be rather hypocritical and very personal. At first I tried writing something with fancy jargon and statistics in order to convey what remembering the Polytechnique massacre means for me, and found it inherently flawed because I was arguing on a level of…
November 2011
1 post
Derek Wallcott
“…what you’re taking on is really not a renewal of your identity but actually a renewal of your anonymity”
September 2011
3 posts
Gaspereau Press today! Oh my goodness, I am so excited.
“One of the duties of the artist – not the only duty, but a central one – is to impel people to imagine the complexity of thought and feeling inside another person. Art complicates moral action, because we have to accept that other people matter, that their hardship and suffering, even their rage and sorrow, are, to some extent, our responsibility.
Propaganda has the opposite aim: it...
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“At Ekibastuz, any writing would be seized as contraband. So he devised a method that enabled him to retain even long sections of prose. After seeing Lithuanian Catholic prisoners fashion rosaries out of beads made from chewed bread, he asked them to make a similar chain for him, but with more beads. In his hands, each bead came to represent a passage that he would repeat to himself...
May 2011
9 posts
“When I say you don’t have to explain what you’re going to do with your life I’m not suggesting you lounge around whining about how difficult it is. I’m suggesting you apply yourself with some serious motherfuck-i-tude in directions for which we have no accurate measurement. I’m talking about work. And love.”
Dear Sugar
April 2011
8 posts
New Rules for Better Living
I have forgotten all of them, right now.
I’m gonna post some art soon.
Chancellor, from Coke Machine Glow. If you don’t...
Baby how long?
March 2011
2 posts
January 2011
1 post
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