fallen verses

(from here via notcot)
Make it big, and it’s art. Make it big, and public, and it’s art people talk about.
I wonder if the problem with poetry is that it’s too quiet now. The maddest among us don’t howl so much as froth. I certainly mumble in the background somewhere about the ephemeral. Maybe it just [...]

…is the middle ground. Extremes (and complexities) of emotional response are pretty much our stock-in-trade. It might well be the ethos of the middle-brow suburban working stiff to parrot the old-media-spawned desirability of a ‘balanced’ perspective but the unbalanced, unpopular, subversive, perverse, creepy, critical, curious, unconventional and not-always-well-intentioned are just a few of the acceptable [...]

I would like to think most of us are aware of HIV/AIDS and realizes these are a Bad Thing, but I don’t know. There are a lot of crazy people out there who believe the strangest things for no apparent reason (and, even worse, when shown they are wrong!). I can’t begin to understand that [...]

I wrote this for my other blog, ineffably.net, but I thought someone might find this of interest here as well.
I wonder, sometimes, if people don’t view the word “ineffable” in the same light that I do. If it may be seen as undesirable, a lack, a failing. In some ways, it is a failing–a failing [...]

link (via Poetry Hut Blog)
Maybe I’m the only one who isn’t familiar with Lewis Hyde, maybe not. I don’t recall having ever heard of him or his book The Gift. If that NYTimes piece is indicative of his views, I probably should look into it.
Intellectual property is a murky idea. How do you really “own” [...]

Complain loudly enough, and the mountain will move for you (via Poetry Hut Blog).
Or, if not mountains, you can squelch free speech and artistic expression that does not match with your iron-age belief system. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems the “moderate christians” should be with the people standing up against this. If that [...]

This is me not working on my NaNoWriMo project. Video from here about this. Usual caveat that if you see a gray bar, click it.
It didn’t take too much of that talk for me to understand it and realize I’ve been doing it wrong in a lot of my creative endeavors recently. In writing, or [...]

from TED

This video is about this guy with the unpronounceable last name’s research into the mental states of creativity, etc., which he calls “flow.” An interesting look at the psychology of creativity in relation to the “normal” world.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. A leading researcher in positive [...]

via Poetry Hut Blog
Burger King Launches Canadian Online Poetry Contest (link)
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Haiku is an ancient form of Japanese poetry consisting of a set number of syllables per line: five syllables in the first line, seven in the second line, and five in the third. The website includes haiku samples and an easy-to-use haiku-writing application….
/boggle
I think this [...]

I don’t know if most people’s conversations with friends talk about philosophy and psychology and culture and generally ignore sports, but mine do. A couple of weeks ago I was hanging out with my best friends playing Rock Band 2, and during a short interlude I put forth a theory I have about happiness (and [...]