Posted on December 20, 2017
by Lesley Wheeler
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Two blessings and a curse–guess which one is the most fun to read aloud? My poxy poem, “All-purpose Spell for Banishment,” written last New Year’s Eve, just appeared in the new issue of Salamander. Maybe if we all chant it naked by moonlight on the solstice,…
Category: UncategorizedTags: Anne Spencer, Blackbird, blessings, curse, Girl after Girl after Girl, incantation, Kenyon Review Online, Modernism/modernity, Nicole Cooley, Ocean State Review, salamander, solstice
Posted on May 18, 2017
by Lesley Wheeler
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I’m currently reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s flood of a novel, New York 2140, at the edges of the work day. Sea levels have risen fifty feet but stubborn New Yorkers are trying to redefine their big moldy apple as SuperVenice, navigating the street-canals via vaporettos and…
Posted on January 17, 2016
by Lesley Wheeler
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I’m not the only writer who’s fascinated by the processes of inspiration, composition, and revision, but horrified by the processes of self-promotion. And I do mean full-on gothic trauma complete with repressed guilt rising monstrously from a shallow grave and chasing me through the…
Category: UncategorizedTags: Barrow Street Press, being tired of hearing about Brooklyn, Ben Lerner, Eileen Myles, Frank Bures, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Hampden-Sydney Review, Kenyon Review, process, productivity, publicity, Radioland, salamander, self-promotion
Posted on July 6, 2014
by Lesley Wheeler
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The bad news: I am no longer in France. I know you’re weeping for poor privileged me—try to keep that under control. The other bit of tough luck, about which you may feel genuinely sympathetic: my one-year stint as acting Department Head of English…
Category: UncategorizedTags: anxiety, France, instrumental motivation, internal motivation, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Michelle Boisseau, Montignac, poetry, publication, Radioland, salamander, sou'wester
