Jul-August Backdate!
Alright, I am back from Sage Hill, I've been spotted 'round the town so I can't lay low any longer.
Q. How was Sage Hill?
A. It was great! Friars, 100-year old Birthday Party for everyone, Northern Lights as I have never seen (half the sky, or er, half the hemisphere, so the quarter-sphere? and green and red!) Film screenings, Experient Readings, Nicole Brossard! Laundromat afternoon during which I read Mauve Desert! bpnichol pome poem recital by a spontaneous group of non-sound-poets! Tarot cards and Scrabble games and labyrinth walking, humid heat wave and thunderstorms and strange prairie birds, clouds of yellow butterflies and even some sage...
Q. But did you get any writing done?
A. Yes! I wrote 20 pages of new material and with Nicole's help felt brave enough to cut about 50 pages of failed attempts to finish the book that I'd written before I ever got to Magical Wonderful Sage Hill! I wrote new CONCRETE poems! And prose poems! Weird! In a couple of weeks the manuscript will be well and truly done and I will send it to be (hopefully) published! Hooray!
Q. A cell? Really? Like a monk?
A. Yep-- sometimes one needs a cell of one's own. It was perfect!
I met so many talented and cool people and I have lots of new books to read. It is a great program-- so well-run and such a great setting. The person who makes the magic happen, Steven Ross Smith, is taking a year's sabbatical from the program that he has been director of for 17 years (!), but he's got a temporary magic-maker doing his job for that year. You writers reading this should go! You'll love it!
Q. How was Sage Hill?
A. It was great! Friars, 100-year old Birthday Party for everyone, Northern Lights as I have never seen (half the sky, or er, half the hemisphere, so the quarter-sphere? and green and red!) Film screenings, Experient Readings, Nicole Brossard! Laundromat afternoon during which I read Mauve Desert! bpnichol pome poem recital by a spontaneous group of non-sound-poets! Tarot cards and Scrabble games and labyrinth walking, humid heat wave and thunderstorms and strange prairie birds, clouds of yellow butterflies and even some sage...
Q. But did you get any writing done?
A. Yes! I wrote 20 pages of new material and with Nicole's help felt brave enough to cut about 50 pages of failed attempts to finish the book that I'd written before I ever got to Magical Wonderful Sage Hill! I wrote new CONCRETE poems! And prose poems! Weird! In a couple of weeks the manuscript will be well and truly done and I will send it to be (hopefully) published! Hooray!
Q. A cell? Really? Like a monk?
A. Yep-- sometimes one needs a cell of one's own. It was perfect!
I met so many talented and cool people and I have lots of new books to read. It is a great program-- so well-run and such a great setting. The person who makes the magic happen, Steven Ross Smith, is taking a year's sabbatical from the program that he has been director of for 17 years (!), but he's got a temporary magic-maker doing his job for that year. You writers reading this should go! You'll love it!
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