Tag: asks

I know unsolicited advice is obnoxious, so forgive me, but I think you show real promise and can’t help myself. Here it is: this tumblr shows you are a good art student. Let it show that you are a good artist.

I don’t post my writing on here because a lot of lit journals count self-publishing on blogs as a publication and it would preclude me from submitting. Although, tbf, I have something like 6,000 followers on here, which means that I would have a far larger audience than virtually any journal…so I am beginning to wonder what the point of holding off is. Aside from propping up an elitist  academia. 

hi- you don’t know me, but my name’s emma and I’m a poet in the mfa at Colorado State in Fort Collins. Are you doing your mfa in Laramie? 

Hey Emma, I was actually in the MFA at University of Montana. I moved to Laramie for a few months after leaving the program because I fell in love with a man who is in the lit program there. I have a sort-of-friend, Zach, who is in your program though! 

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books youve read this month. go.

Those I have finished/those I can recall…most are re-reads:  Ban en Banlieue  by Bhanu Kapil, The Book of the Body and Desire by Frank Bidart, Time Slips: Queer Temporalities, Contemporary Performance and the Hole of History by Jaclyn I. Pryor, Ways of Seeing by John Berger, Poetry In Painting: Writing on Contemporary Arts and Aesthetics by Helene Cixous, Death and Sensuality by Bataille, A Lover’s Discourse by Roland Barthes, Simone Weil: An Anthology (Penguin Edition), Suffering by Dorothee Soelle, Schizophrene by  Bhanu Kapil, Modernism and the Celtic Revival by Gregory Castle, Joyce’s Revenge by Andrew Gibson, James Joyce: A Critical Introduction by Harry Levin, Holy, The Firm by Annie Dillard, The Writing Life by Annie Dillard, Louise Gluck: Collected Poems, The Joyce Paradox: Form and Freedom in his Fiction by Arnold Goldman, James Joyce and the Exilic Imagination by Michael Patrick Gillespie, James Joyce: Ulysses by Vincent Sherry, Joyce in the Hibernian Metropolis: Essays edited by Morris Beja and David Norris, The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce edited by Derek Attridge, Spacecraft Voyager 1: New and Selected Poems by Alice Oswald, Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul by Ariel Glucklich, Colonial Desire: Hybridity in theory, culture and race by Robert J. C. Young, A Mystical Philosophy: Transcendence and Immanence in the Works ofVirginia Woolf and Iris Murdoch by Donna J. Lazenby, Space, in Chains by Laura Kasischke, The Cloud of Unknowing And the Book of Privy Counseling translated and edited by William Johnson, Stay, Illusion by Lucie Brock-Broido, The Master Letters by Lucie Brock-Broido, and Women Mystics in Medieval Europe by Emilie Zum Brunn & Georgette Epiney-Burgard.

You have such an extensive knowledge of art & literature! May i ask you where it is you learnt so much from? And what are some of your favoriete sources to continue gathering knowledge or find Posts in general? Thanks

Oh god. The honest answer is that I spent a lot of my adolescence and early twenties maintaining complicated  interpersonal relationships and indulging my own self-destructive frenzies. Then, in 2015, I went to graduate school in a new state, developed really fucked up insomnia, and entered a state of self-imposed and much needed hermitude during which I found some type of silver lining in the agony of chronic sleeplessness by using the extra hours to scour the internet and the library for things which peaked my fancy. It’s hard for me to direct people to places to find the sort of content that I post, because it is pretty sprawling. I would suggest checking the sources on my posts and my previous blog recommendations under my ask and asks tags. For full length manuscripts available (illegally) for free online, you should check out Libgen. You can find a ton of the books I reference on there. For tight contemporary lit/art journals I love Jacket2, at Length, Conjunctions, Triquarterly, Guernica, Diagram, Paperbag zine, and Bomb. Entropy is also an awesome resource. Find galleries you like and hit up their websites. There are way too many for me to mention here …some galleries who host pretty obvious artists but have amazing online reproductions are Hauser & Wirth, Alison Jacques and Luhring Augustine. Type in artists you like on google with pdf after their names or thesis plus pdf to find esoteric images of their work. I dunno. If you have some more specific subjects you are interested in let me know and I will try to get back to you with links/recs. 

have you heard or read about sheela na gigs? i feel like they’d be something that might interest you!

No, I haven’t, aside from the occasional mention in some sprawling research I have been doing on James Joyce for the last year (when thinking about the role of the sacred feminine in late colonial/semicolonial/postcolonial/pick your term here Irish nationalist movements). But I am looking right now and they are awesome! Also: now I understand a PJ Harvey song much better. Thanks! 

could you pls tag gore, rape, and nsfw stuff so I can blacklist it

I usually tag rape and intimate partner violence in the first five tags so that people have a heads up, but I will make an effort to tag nsfw and gore as well. As a caveat though, a huge portion of what I post centers on violence and trauma, and I understand my frenetic posting habits well enough to know that things will slip through. This whole blog is tagged as NSFW. I understand, however, that there are some things on here that people would like to access without seeing the more jarring or upsetting content, and that even for people who visit this blog to interact with that content, sometimes we are all in spaces where we can’t deal with that kind of onslaught of pain…so I am willing to make an attempt to accommodate for that. Please note that I am a survivor of rape and of intimate partner violence and domestic violence in my family of origin, so I really am sympathetic to the request, and have been angsting over this subject, but, after consideration, I feel I need to make it clear for the emotional safety of my readers that this blog is a space for me to take notes and curate content to use in my art, and the vast majority of it is pretty intense. It is also often hard to distinguish what is going to be triggering for another human. Anyway…short answer: I will strive to include a larger variety of screening tags, but this blog is a therapeutic space for me and I cannot ensure that all potentially triggering content will be tagged well enough to prevent it from leaking through.