media consumption log: may 2023

 

Media Consumption Log:

Late April/May 2023






Books: 
  • A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin
  • Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir
  • The Feminine Mystique by Betty Freidan
  • The Collected Poems of Anne Sexton
  • If I Were Another: Poems by Mahmoud Darwish
  • Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
  • The Tempest by William Shakespeare
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky*
  • Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
  • Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici*


Poems I've Read Recently:



Poems I've Written/Writing Life Update:

I wrote thirteen poems in late April/early May. I've been writing a lot about my sister. My work's been permeated with grief. I wrote a few chunky prose poems, but I'm finding my stuff's been getting shorter and shorter. I've been enjoying playing around with format (couplets with one line at the end; returning to the slash formatting from Work/house).

I am also working on a response essay to something I wrote last summer about being a digital coquette, self-objectification in a feminine body, and desire as a coping mechanism (controlling how I am seen vs. the reality of how others perceive me). I might post the original, but definitely not the response essay.

My piece "THE WOMEN WOULD LIKE TO SEE ME NOW" came out in the Santa Clara Review. I wish you could read it online, but it's in PRINT!!!!11!!111!!!1! So, if you want to read it, you're going to have to ask for my contributor copy or for me to take a picture of it for you. The editors placed it right next to a really nice painting, too. 

My piece "HAVE YOU BEEN INJURED?", which I wrote on a road-trip through the South (we were in West Virginia at the time), came out in The Rockvale Review, and you can read it here.

Also, I'm hosting an Open Mic for the Salem Arts Festival. You should come and read your work. That'd be cool. 




Albums and Playlists:

I make monthly playlists to keep track of stuff I find each month. I am so godawful at remembering artist/song names, so this method keeps me sane. Here are my May tunes and here is my April mix. 
  • The Young Will Eat the Old (Tebi Rex; Irish duo I saw at Soundhouse Club in Dublin last summer; I wrote a poem about their concert, which is one of my favorite poems; anyway, I super love "I Never Got Off the Bus", "Lotus Eaters", "Hero & Hubris" and "Robbin Szn")
  • Peripheral Vision (Turnover; shoutout to Kelsie at the Yellow Button for cultivating most of my May taste; "Cutting My Fingers Off", "New Scream")
  • Love Lives in the Body (Soft Blue Shimmer)
  • Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky; I grew up playing The Nutcracker on my flute. I love classical music so much)
  • This playlist, which I made and listened to on a summer road-trip through the South (it's great for staring out the window; feat. Blondshell, The Greeting Committee, quinnie)
  • Heal My Head (Valleyheart; I've also been listening to stuff from Nowadays and Everyone I've Ever Loved; this band left the same church I did and have been writing about their experiences with faith. I went to the HMH listening party at Gulu-Gulu in Salem)
  • This playlist, which has all of my Fleetwood Mac faves.




Other, Unrelated Thoughts:

  • I've been thinking about Taylor Swift and capitalism. What's new. 
  • I've also been thinking a lot about how our writing shows us what we cannot accept, before we choose to accept it. Writing as Rorschach test. And how bodies do the same thing. Bodies as containers/vessels for narratives we lack the words to express. Or something. 
  • Sentimentalism and materialism often go hand-in-hand. 
  • I'm afraid to be okay with impermanence. 
  • I'll never be able to do everything I want in life. I cannot split myself into other selves. I cannot go everywhere. I cannot be everyone I want to be. The few dreams I will turn into reality will be dreams I do not yet have. I am desperately afraid of not making it out. I cannot fathom who I'll become when I eventually do. 

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