Steve Ersinghaus

The poetry is moving along and we’ve passed the half way mark in the 100 Images challenge. Somewhere near the 50 mark I hit a transition with one of the weaving characters in the under narrative of the poems, a woman who deals with some sort of identity issue. I have no desire [...]

Jesse Abbot writing hypertext poetry.

Whenever I need a poetry boost, I take up Frank Stanford. His language forces the brain into interesting tilts. He teaches the eyes to swim faster.
For example, from Their Names Are Spoken:
We dream on
Now night a cool moss
On the undersides of the cold ground
Keeps growing on the stones
This is amazing. To position [...]

Jesse Abbot is getting into the game.

To me it’s an interesting process. Prior to Carianne uploading her image, I take lots of time in the morning writing extensions to existing poetry, playing with new ideas, and worrying about the people who are emerging in a narrative working between the images, such as a cave woman who sits in a city [...]

A couple of shots of Carianne in her studio and I in mine.
Where the 100 Images Project is being made.

Mark Bernstein poses an interesting mortality question. It’s also about the mathematics of reading. In a lifetime, how many books can we read, and what now constitutes “book” or “book knowledge” besides the obvious package? At the moment, I’m reading Jesper Juul’s half-real because John game me a copy. I’m also [...]

Bryan Carroll getting into the poetry game:
Watersides
a tattoo is stained glass
the view over the hood.
Might have been summertime
just as the weather would
before the orange, blue and yellow.
I hope you don’t mind the ink.
I can only imagine.
what my eyes will see
on this stained waterside.

The 100 poems will be going up at Media Play. I must slowly catch up to Carianne.
This will be a fun and challenging exercise.

Briefly considering the issue of those who saw the invention of the desktop and those who grew up with them as appliances.
And to keep the juices going, I think I’m going to write a poem for every Carianne piece posted here. Some catch-up to do.

I have so many small projects going, it’s hard to know where to concentrate effort. One item to complete is Brimmer and Death, a story based on a world created by Neil Gaiman.
Two things to do: freshen up the dramatic pull of the story. It’s still a little dull.
The last is to work on the [...]

Seriously itching for the new novel.
Where are you Wally?

I agree with this entirely, especially on the theme of editing for compressed intensity. The only difference with Sandoval was that the amount of text spaces made editing a several years process. There’s still much to do with novel, too. The editing never ends.

I’d always been bothered by something in Brimmer and Death. Names. I’ve been through many of them and finally hit on a core but nuanced issue: Death herself. There’s a relationship here between a problem with linking in the story and their slow developing syntactical interference (which is a good thing). In the story, [...]

Deadwood is amazing. But for the background. Dan Dority, for example, played by W. Earl Brown, is totally realized. On screen, his manner, style of speech, habits and shape fit into Deadwood’s world without seam.
Last week we saw Dan streetfight with Captain Turner (Allan Graf). Dan is getting it pretty good. He reaches [...]