Bluer Sky!

BLUE SKY!

Even if it is freezing!

Dickinson Love Comic

I dwell in Possibility – (466)

BY EMILY DICKINSON

I dwell in Possibility –

A fairer House than Prose –

More numerous of Windows –

Superior – for Doors –

Of Chambers as the Cedars –

Impregnable of eye –

And for an everlasting Roof

The Gambrels of the Sky –

Of Visitors – the fairest –

For Occupation – This –

The spreading wide my narrow Hands

To gather Paradise –

After Emily Dickinson

This drawing model keeps staring down at me as if to ask, Really?  Are you really going to write today?  And I keep thinking, It's possible.  And I keep staring out the window . . .

Prototype for Dickinson comic below

I love my little wooden models!

Dickinson comic

Am I a real boy yet?

Comic of "For I will Consider My Cat, Jeoffry" by Christopher Smart

Comic

The Optimist

Some sources say this is by Ben Franklin

Flexible Hours

I Feel Like Flying

I Will Not Pinch Boys

The Last Issue of Sentence

The last issue of Sentence arrived today, and I am so sorry to see this magazine fold.  I love this issue, and I esp.  love the cover.  I suspect every prose poet from my generation owns this anthology, and it looks as beat up as the one in this picture.  The anthology was printed as cheaply as possible, as if designed to dissolve with reading. The pages turn brown and fall out.  The editor, Michael Benedikt, would not allow it to be reprinted.  It is one of the few books I own with a limited shelf life.

The Prose Poem is one of the great International anthologies, and it introduced me to writers such as Michaux, Jacob, Ponge, Eich, Cortazar, Jozsef, Szymborska, Herbert, and others.

Author Photo Comic

FaceTime

Interview with Shanna Compton, Editor of Bloof Books

http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2014/01/meet-the-press-nin-andrews-in-conversation-with-shanna-compton-editor-of-bloof-books.html

Comic

Late Christmas Card?

Happy New Year!

Good Morning!

New Years Resolutions

Am I the only one whose list barely changes?

Restaurant Comic

Doctor Comic

Day after Xmas

Denise Duhamel's article in The Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/denise-duhamel/advanced-women-poets-book_b_4454702.html

Storyscape

I've been reviewing old journals and pictures to help me get back into my childhood mind and memories, and work on a new series, some of which are here: http://www.storyscapejournal.com

Alien Baby Jesus

LunaLuna

The lovely Leah Umansky (whom I was trying to draw in the cartoon above) interviewed me on LunaLuna:http://lunalunamag.com/2013/11/30/interview-with-poet-nin-andrews/
http://lunalunamag.com

One Size Fits All

Self Promotion

So I was listening to this coach talking today in the locker room at the Y.  She was telling these girls, "You have to value yourself.  You have to know yourself.  Like, if you were a present, all wrapped up for Christmas,
What would you be?
Who would want you?  Why?"

"Self promotion, she added, "is very important.
You have to know your worth."

Deer

You really don't think I am going to run away, do you?

My New House

Dear Diary

Christmas List

New Fracking Comics

Here:  http://environmental-comics.blogspot.com

Dear Diary

Thank you letter

Grade School Journal Entry

I love old journals.  This is my attempt to replicate an entry from 3rd grade--the handwriting esp..

Sonnet 6

SONNET 6

Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:
Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
With beauty's treasure, ere it be self-kill'd.
That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thyself to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigured thee:
Then what could death do, if thou shouldst depart,
Leaving thee living in posterity?
    Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair,
    To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.