Sep 10, 2020 | Current Ned Note, On Books, On Writing, Past Notes
I loved reading about Vladimir Nabakov’s writing process… intriguing to see inside the master’s work habits and see how he acted like a magpie and a chaotic creative coming closer and closer to a final story. This process of collection and collation...
Aug 3, 2020 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
Andrew Grace Placing your foot in a bucket of darkness, three miles to home: ostrich farm, oat field pimpled with buttonweed, Rayleigh Scattering dissolved by mist above. Two hours you spent rivering a womb-humid artery for floodwater to pass through & now passage...
Jun 20, 2020 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
By Terrance Hayes Audio: Read by the author. You can be a bother who dyes his hair Dennis Rodman blue in the face of the man kneeling in blue in the face the music of his wrist- watch your mouth is little more than a door being knocked out of the ring of fire around...
Jun 2, 2020 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Poem: what they did yesterday afternoon, by Warsan Shire these are what my prayers look like; dear god i come from two countries one is thirsty the other is on fire both need water. later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole...
Mar 16, 2020 | Current Ned Note, On Books
by NICK FARRIELLA Dearest Rosemary, It was a limpid dreary day, hung as in a basket from a single dull star. I thank you for your letter. Outside, I perceive what may be a collection of fallen leaves tussling against a trash can. It rings like jazz to my...
