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[aslant]

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my new desk arrived a couple days ago, and it is all assembled. i love it. i can sit and write before i leave in the morning, when i get home in the afternoon & there's still the golden of the end of the day. it's blurry, but you get the idea...



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two of three housemates are gone for the weekend. i am going to this conference all day saturday, which is supposed to be good for me. i've never heard of any of the poets, though. (not that i know very many anyway.)

i had a horrible dream in which i was fighting with sticks and redhot pokers against some blonde man. i threw chairs at him, etc. eventually he screamed because i broke his finger, and we stopped. hmm.

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[ex-bury632.livejournal.com]

lucky you!

maxine kumin and sophie cabot black are incredible, especially the latter. jorie graham i used to read a few years ago...probably when i was about 16, but then i realised how little i could relate to most of her poems because they're very much based on her upper-class white lifestyle. as for c.d. wright, he (i believe) was involved in the same movement of beginning spoken-word poets like john ashbery (who on surface do not call themselves spoken word poets). wright and ashbery were, i know for sure, judging a chapbook competition late last year put on by NPSA (national poetry society of america or somesuch). :) it should be good.

as for the bad dream, i was actually going to write you. i actually had a job inefficiency dream. you know those dreams where you keep fucking things up, you keep taking too long to get things done, et cetera? in this dream i even got in a screaming match with my boss. good lord.

things = stressful right now, and my boss noticed it. she asked me about it (albeit VERY nicely/understandingly heh) last evening because a few of the supervisors i'd worked with on various shifts had noticed that i wasn't feeling "up to par". i explained that no i'm not feeling up to par but that is simply because i need to find an apartment and SOON, i'm trying to finish the semester with some amount of grace and this school fucks things up so i'm trying to deal with the reprocussions of working with unknowledgable faculty advisors. et cetera et cetera.

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[aslant.livejournal.com]

ooh, fabulous. thank you for the background info. now i am much more excited about going. less of a 'taking my medicine' feel to it, y'know.

sorry to hear about the stressful dream. i hope the apt situation gets resolved soon...i am certain everything will work out.

xo.

[mordicai.livejournal.com]

i have my computer precariously perched atop a coffee table of glass.

but i digress. i'll just show it to you when you get here.

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[aslant.livejournal.com]

i keep forgetting how soon that will be!
as in, about twenty days from now!

[ex-mthrtong.livejournal.com]

the desk set-up is lovely. it looks like you get great lighting, which is the main thing for me.

ooh, cd wright is my absolute favorite poet. and maxine cumin rocks. i've seen jorie graham and natasha tretheway both read here..in fact, i had dinner with both of them (on different occasions, that is). and i was just reading something of lorna goodison's....i cannot remember what it was. anyway. sounds awesome. you will have a great time, i suspect. :)

[souvenant.livejournal.com]

[mrbaby.livejournal.com]

hey, where've you gone?? according to my userinfo page, yr journal's been deleted - is that right? at least let me have your email - please?? i'll miss if you go, more than you know... xo

[mrbaby.livejournal.com]

it looks like a really nice place to write :-)

i only know maxine kumin in relation to anne sexton (i think they were pretty good friends). i'm pretty clueless about contemporary american poets, tho' i find sharon olds beguiling (tho' i sometimes want to run away from her...)

[glimmerkirk.livejournal.com]

eeee! a desk! my suitcase was right there before! ;)

xo!

(oooh! and c.d. wright! she was the editor for the winter ed. of ploughshares. her stuff is quite amazing. i think she wrote this book of poems called 'tremble' or something like that? :) its nice. i wanna gooo! *packs stuff* )

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[aslant.livejournal.com]

ha! i am revealed as the imposter i truly am! every single person here knows at least one of these poets. i feel foolish.

xo, darling.

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[glimmerkirk.livejournal.com]

aww...don't feel so, love. i randomly found her at a barnes&noble just 'cause the title seemed cool :P i still don't know anything real about her....(and i just happen to have the copy of ploughshares right next to me. :) its the one i bought by the T in harvard square :) :) )

so don't feel foolish. :) i think you're brilliant. :)

xo, darling.