February 2012
1 post
I got published...
…in the Allegheny Review.
This whole poetry thing…well, it just warms my heart. But seriously.
January 2012
2 posts
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January 24, 2012 > January 24, 2011
Last January, I was looking for a reason to leave. Fresh off the plane from Buenos Aires, I was cultured, worldly, hungry, and resentful of anything labeled “American.” I discovered I was attractive. I dipped my feet into a modern-day fairytale for a weekend, and when the book shut in my face, I stumbled back to what I knew. I was arrogant in my solitude. I was proud of my...
Teach for America: you missed out.
That’s all.
December 2011
4 posts
YES.
“You cheated? You’ve been cheating this whole time!?”
“But I—” “No! No… I’m done.”
“I don’t even feel like playing anymore.”
project of the week:
write a coherent poem in spanish. (sharp inhale)
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November 2011
1 post
October 2011
3 posts
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“[I’m] really excited for the next Twilight movie. The trailers say...”
– A Denison grad, on Twilight.
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My poems would be so much better if I wrote them with a Montblanc pen. Cough cough.
September 2011
2 posts
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In Autumn, On The Way
Despite my fervent desire to leave Ohio, someone once told me I would become one of those sentimental assholes who romanticizes the state anyway and encapsulates it into an unjustifiably beautiful picture.
…..Nah.
In Autumn, On The Way
Foot taps gas,
calf muscle contracts,
and eyes squint toward
the bright sun of a Saturday morning:
perpetual inhabitant of a transient space.
...
This is why it’s harder to open yourself up than close yourself off.
August 2011
1 post
Anonymous asked: heey, do you go to denison university? im thinking of going there!! whats it like? :)
July 2011
3 posts
when life throws you curveballs (and you hit them...
Funny to look back on an old (let’s be honest with ourselves - relatively fresh) outlook on life that you were so sure of, so cocky in. Just when I started to feel like I had figured things out, I ate (most of) my own words. Couldn’t be happier I did.
30. Mar. 2011 “The Like-Minded Couple”
It’s time for a little rant.
Recently, one of my friends (and...
June 2011
12 posts
full of unabashed 13-year-old, big-eyed, swollen-hearted hope.
UGH.
Too good not to share.
Mosul
by David Hernandez
The donkey. The donkey pulling the cart.
The caravan of dust. The cart made of plywood,
of crossbeam and junkyard tires. The donkey
made of donkey. The long face. The long ears.
The curled lashes. The obsidian eyes blinking
in the dust. The cart rolling, cracking the knuckles
of pebbles. The dust. The blanket over the cart.
The hidden mortar shells. The veins of...
“So why do you fill my sorrow
With the words you’ve borrowed
From the...”
– Damien Rice, “Delicate”
Things I want:
• Someone to tell me I will end up as a sweater-vest wearing, hipster professor of creative writing.
• To live in a studio apartment with a Great Dane and throw exquisite dinner parties with expensive wine and jazz/swing music.
• To move.
• To wind up / to not wind up as a thirty-five-year-old spinster with too many cats.
• To journal relentlessly, to learn always, to stop unconsciously (!) using...
from The Tinajera Notebook (Forrest Gander)
Through my torso, the smooth
diffusion of aguas ardientes. Another
shot. Dawn.
Fan whir covers distant
rooster crow, dog bark cuts through fan whir.
That the world has you in its time? Is that what
...
late sunday,
boss is on the tv singing some old song about
fast cars and luck, dreams of young boys
hang in the space between
each push of the piano’s pedal.
that’s all i got. it’s a weird night. i think i think too much.
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“I-am-curious play pal with insatiable appetite for roaming the sexual planes...”
– Take on Sagittarius/Libra pairing courtesy of “Love on a Rotten Day.” Hilarious.
Milford, Ohio (working title for a working poem)
I suppose if I ever had a hometown, it would be Milford:
The summer stifle,
The blooming humidity of July in southern Ohio.
The pockets of lilies in the front yard, early,
The butterfly bushes whose flowers never drop
Though long since crushed by ice and snow
Filling out the season.
I suppose it would be also
The gas lantern, ignited, like
Brilliant egg sacs waiting to burst –
The...
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Lo que se busca en la noche.
We wrote things to each other.
I found your notebook.
“We should do it again sometime.”
Amanda. Te ves muy bonita. Lastima que te vas.
Joel - Pero regreso! Sos lindo.
A penguin, a face, fire hearts and snakes.
Amor es dolor.
Hola como te vas? Hi is this right.
Religion. Como ser buena persona.
Tengo sueño. No puedo hablar.
Helado. Dulce de leche. Vanilla.
What’s the word for fork again?...
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IF YOU HAVEN'T READ AMY HEMPEL
do yourself a favor, pick up one of her books of amazing short stories, and start it.
i guarantee you’ll finish it.
start with Nashville Gone to Ashes.
now.
May 2011
11 posts
40 literary terms you should know
nevver:
Aphorism
Apostrophe
Applicability
Bete noire
Bildungsroman
Bowdlerize
Byronic hero
Caesura
Death of the author
Denouement
Didactic
Epigraph
Epistolary
Fin de siecle
Foil
Hamartia
Heresy of paraphrase
Hubris
Humours
In medias res
Intertextuality
Irony
Literary agent hypothesis
Magic realism
Malapropism
Meiosis
Meta
Mise en scene
Picaresque
Purple prose
Roman...
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ode to adverbs, or, have you ever seen a luna moth...
No? Good. Because it’s one of the saddest events in nature.
In the midst of working on final exams and papers, one can easily get absorbed in self-pity and unhealthy doses of stress. Will I get this done on time? what if I fail? I’m so tired…
In the past three days I have managed to switch my sleeping schedule to roughly 5am bedtime, 5pm wake up.
I was walking back from...
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“Alouette, déployer l’aile…
Alondra, abre las alas…
Skylark,...”
– Because some things are equally as beautiful in a different language.
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“Youth is a mask that doesn’t last, so live it long and live it fast.”
me duele que estes tan distante.
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“I remember you said, “Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts...”
– Someone Like You - Adele
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why is death
the thing that seems to best bring out our patriotism?
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days like today.
Days like today I think of you in your pea coat,
The collar parting sharply along your neckline
Like an invitation,
And, if the wind is strong,
Framing your face to keep away the bite.
I think of that magic trick warmth - the one where
You hold my hands outstretched and
(light as a feather stiff as a board)
Hold yours above like airplane wings,
Spilling a downdraft of body heat onto my...
April 2011
23 posts
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Today.
Today I found a picture of an old friend that made me want to kiss him
On the mouth - no.
On the nose, tender like a gosling feather.
To cup his face in my hand like a lost animal,
To run my ring finger down the crinkle of his nose,
Make my face his mirror image.
To uncurl his brow like smoothing out a crumpled page,
Like smearing pastels over watercolor paper,
Blend them outward into his...
kropotkinskayastation asked: Awesome! I've been hoping you'd turn on this feature. Now...what to ask? Haha...I really like your blog. I just wish I could read better Spanish. But it's good practice. Buenos Aires is one of my favorite cities. I've never been there, but I'm dying to go there. I think that's how I stumbled upon your blog. Did you study there?
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Real-life talk.
I am sitting in the computer lab. Wearing a glow-in-the-dark wristband that reads, “NO WOMAN LEFT BEHIND.” There is a Powerade bottle next to me full of vodka and orange soda. I have no idea how long I’ve been here but today I have managed to piss off a reptile owner because I out-smarted him in snake lingo, sneak into a surprise baby shower and eat too many cupcakes, fall off a...
Who figured out their ask button?
THIS winner right here.
@heizmind -- →
heizmind:
laitaliana:
@laitaliana Leí tu articulo sobre las culturas y como te fuiste enamorando de Bs As. es grandioso conocer algo que te gusta y te apasiona y todas tus fuerzas se centran en lo que QUIERES VIVIR! es una forma de ver mas alla y lo que te hace sabiendo que vivimos en un pais diferente y luchamos por vivir mas experiencias en otro lugar.
Yo estoy haciendo lo mismo que...
laitaliana - nice poem
wallberlin:
Hey Laitaliana,
That was a nice poem. It actually wasn’t all that sappy. I like your blog, “Cada Dia Un Poca Mas.” You should activate the Ask Me feature for messages.
Well hey thanks! As soon as I figure out how to do that…. hahaha. And I like yours, too! Cheers.
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I bought 3 journals today.
I will fill them all.
“Feigning interest is a sure sign of love. Try it sometime.”
