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Teaching blackout poetry at the Texas Teen Book Festival
In some ways, I’m probably the worst person to teach blackout poetry. I’ve done it for so long, I don’t even really think about it any more. Making art and teaching art are two different skill...
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To be a teacher and remain a student
C.S. Lewis wrote a great introduction to his Reflections on the Psalms that I used in the “Be An Amateur” section of my last book: I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned...
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The light of the universe
“Every time we have built new eyes to observe the universe, our understanding of ourselves and our place in it has been forever altered.” —Lawrence M. Krauss
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Low-hanging fruit
Whenever I’m told to go after “low-hanging fruit,” I think of drawing a cartoon with two characters standing over a tombstone. “He picked the low-hanging fruit,” one says. “Yeah,” says the other. “But...
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Keep charts and complain
I made this blackout back in 2010, but it came to mind last night when I was finishing up Malcolm Harris’s book about millennials, Kids These Days, and I read this sentence: “The First Amendment...
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This year
After I made this one I was reminded of Joe Brainard’s New Year poem “1970,” quoted in Ron Padgett’s biography: 1970 is a good year if for no other reason than just because I’m tired of complaining
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A person this was not lost on
My friend Alan Jacobs recently quoted Zadie Smith: “To speak personally, the very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”
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