This week’s guest post comes to us from Sarah Warburton, who previously brought us the hand-knitted Tardis socks. She’s been at it again, this time incorporating poetry into her clothes. I’m totally stealing this idea, just as soon as she teaches me how to do it myself! Continue reading “Fashion Friday 8/30/13”
Month: August 2013
Fashion Friday 8/23/13
How would you like some adorable photos of recent Sappho’s Torque contest winners? Here are a couple of our winners from the Book Spine Poetry Contest, wearing their cute prize t-shirts. Continue reading “Fashion Friday 8/23/13”
Short Form Debrief: Snapshot from My Summer Vacation
School starts tomorrow. Actually, I’ve been back a couple of weeks, but classes start tomorrow. Am I ready? Nope. Am I looking forward to it? Sure. Is this how it is every single August? Yup.
Periodically, I’m going to have my students perform something I call the Short Form Debrief. They’ll write very short poems on a particular subject. This will not take a long time. There is no pressure. It’s a low-stakes sandbox way of playing with language. And because I generally don’t ask my students to do any work I haven’t done or am not doing myself, here’s my SFD from my summer vacation.
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“Salem, Mass.”
The oldest place I’ve ever seen:
trees glistening like seaweed canopies,
sailboats in the harbor and flowers in “sweltering” 80-degree heat,
houses crammed with centuries of ghosts and books and fires.
Fashion Friday 8/16/13
The evil eye enjoys a wide variety of cultural meanings around the world, but a commonly held idea is that it’s meant to bounce away other people’s malicious envy against you, karmically turning it back on them as bad luck. Like with a lot of interesting symbols, my Arab-American upbringing flirted Continue reading “Fashion Friday 8/16/13”
Snack Haiku
one day past quite ripe,
black leather of the plum slides
off like sealkie skin
Anniversary Rêveuse
So believe it or not, today is the one-year anniversary of the Rêveurs Revelation Fashion Project! Fabulous, right?
First, I want to say how grateful I am to everyone who has participated in this along with me, either in pictures or on their blogs or just by doing it in their shy, subtle way, dressing the part with a whisper in my ear and a Mona Lisa smile each month.
Second, congratulations to the people who found out about this jaunt and then read The Night Circus and fell in love with it. (You’re welcome.)
Third, thank you also to the people who have encouraged me to keep doing it. I have been thinking about this project quite a bit lately, what with the anniversary of it approaching and all, and I’ve decided Continue reading “Anniversary Rêveuse”
Fashion Friday 8/9/13
Hello! Our Fashion Friday post this week comes to us from guest blogger Sarah Warburton. (View her blog here.) Sarah writes mysteries, has read pretty much everything, and is my awesome Saturday morning writing date. I’m not sure anyone else could lure me from sleep before dawn on a weekend to drive down to a coffee shop with my ancient (read: heavy) laptop to write, but Sarah’s company and keeping-you-honest presence make it more than worth the effort. In addition to being a really wonderful writer and reader and writing partner…
…she knits.
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Amy Pond: I thought…well, I started to think you were just a mad man with a box.
The Doctor: Amy Pond, there’s something you better understand about me ’cause it’s important and one day your life may depend on it…I am definitely a mad man with a box. Continue reading “Fashion Friday 8/9/13”
Fashion Friday 8/2/13
This week’s installment of Fashion Friday comes to us from Alanna McAuley, who is actually a former student of mine. (Long former. She’s graduated from college now.) She recently stumbled upon a really wonderful advancement in fashion geared toward a highly specific and selective group of people… Continue reading “Fashion Friday 8/2/13”
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