I posted my only decent poem on Instagram and twitter yesterday. It got a lot of praise, which was awesome. (I'm no poet and I worked really hard on that damn thing for my creative writing class a few years ago.) It sparked a conversation with Twitter friend @AmandasNotFunny about our terrible poetry from middle school and high school. I told her ( Read more... )

In this post, I mentioned the ¡Ban This! event that my library had been planning for a couple of months. In case you don't remember it's a reading/signing of the book ¡Ban This!: The BSP Anthology of Xican@ Literature which was a collabtorative effort by 39 different contributors as a response to Arizona's dismantling of the Mexican-American ( Read more... )

I was going through my old Myspace blogs today and found a villanelle poem that I wrote for my creative writing class in spring '09. As much as I like to write, I've never been very good at poetry. I remember when I had to write this I was concerned that the rules of a villanelle would feel too restricting, up until then I'd only written free-verse ( Read more... )