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Self-loathing, Self-loving & Creativity

May 9, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

Some colleagues and I were having a discussion this morning about the idea that many people in the arts and entertainment have tendencies towards the extremes of self-loathing and arrogance. It got me thinking and thanks to the wonders of the internet and some free time waiting for a meeting with my smartphone I started to do some searching and reading on the subject. I came across a salon.com article which explores many issues surrounding the subject, Literary self-loathing: […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: film, gender, women, writing

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Creatures

May 6, 2014 by Ana Maria Caballero

There are good reasons why Billy Collins is probably the most-loved U.S. Poet Laureate in recent history. For one, his poetry speaks, talks, chats us up. It is like The Simpsons. You can zone out, read and enjoy. Or you can dig a little and discover that each word is rooted in mindful soul. Here is a great example of his relaxed work: Creatures Hamlet noticed them in the shapes of clouds, but I saw them in the furniture of […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: literature, poetry, writing

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To Write in an Ugly Way

April 29, 2014 by Ana Maria Caballero

The poetry of Ariana Reines, of which I’ve written over the last two weeks, can sometimes feel eerily adolescent. Eery because her poetry is very adult in its intelligence, but pubescent in its affected interactions with the world. To me, it is the poetic version of the hit HBO series “Girls.” Drunk sex lives around the corner from Reines’s smart, prose-like poems. The following piece is a good example of this: Glass Formalism and grammar are ways to be thin. […]

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Success

April 22, 2014 by Ana Maria Caballero

This marks my second post on controversial poet Ariana Reines. I brought along her book “Mercury ” on a recent trip to New York City and took some shots of it, with the city as backdrop. Reines writes as if she were speaking, albeit in a disjointed way. To read her is to read youth and rebellion, but also wisdom gained via sharp, inquisitive observation. She has attracted the attention of the poetry community, in part because she […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: books, literature, New York City, poetry, reading, writing

Finally, I Get It

January 7, 2014 by William Eaton

I confess that I never understood what Walt Whitman meant by “Leaves of Grass.” But, I finally get it. Or at least, I think I do. If my interpretation of the accompanying image is somewhat accurate, then “leaves” are simply “pages,” as in pages of poetry. This might seem totally obvious for many learn’d people, but it just became apparent to me. Perhaps I should have been forced to read more Whitman in high school. But reading it now, on […]

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Reading 14-20 April 2013 (ZiR)

April 15, 2013 by William Eaton

Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Associate Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 14 April 2013 To blog or not to blog. The question is does it make you a better writer? Maria Konnikova, a writer and a doctoral candidate in Psychology at Columbia University, argues that it does. In her article “Why Grad Schools Should Require Students to Blog” on the Scientific American blog, she discusses her experience working on her dissertation and how it helped her to […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: blogging, Harlem, New Yorker, Shakespeare, writing

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Self-loathing, Self-loving & Creativity

Creatures

To Write in an Ugly Way

Success

Finally, I Get It

Reading 14-20 April 2013 (ZiR)