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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:07:09 -0400

One Way To Listen

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:53:02 -0400

One Way To Listen:

I have a new poem up on Make_.

“between us/ is only time./ all measurement/ is of time.”

I Love Winnie Cooper

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:48:44 -0400

newyorker:

“Winnie Cooper was, in a sense, the first pretty girl to smile at me—at all of us—and for that reason, because of her benevolence and sympathy—because she appeared to understand—she continues to endure while so many others have fallen away.”

Mike Spies on the cultural impact of The Wonder Years’s Winnie Cooper: http://nyr.kr/11BGwlE

yurp.

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Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:46:59 -0400

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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:34:42 -0400

Myoung Ho Lee

Myoung Ho Lee

Myoung Ho Lee

Myoung Ho Lee

Escapists 4/30

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:33:00 -0400

1.
A sob is the sound of the body escaping itself
The air sucked from the collarbone
As it collects the oh and the brine
Even the morning after
the wailing still in the walls
Buckling with the eggshell

2.
Far off the statue of liberty
Meaning nothing to us whatsoever
Just champagne on the Hudson
A reason to build an island
A reason to wrap the body in copper
Its taste lingering, soft metal
the business end of a 9 volt battery
On a tongue

3.
Why do we do this? 
Endow our bodies with so much meaning
As if we won’t burn the same shade of ash
Even now,  as we dogear
And faintly patina
We hold ourselves in such high regard

4.
What sucks the air from a kiss? 
How does the body respond to wood? 
How much can it double over? 
When?

5.
Who at this bar is waiting to die?

nevver: Trippy

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 18:05:28 -0400

nevver:

Trippy

elrondiana: marauderforears: The Italian cover for Junot...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:40:08 -0400

elrondiana:

marauderforears:

The Italian cover for Junot Diaz’s “This Is How You Lose Her”. So dope.

AHHHHHHHHH

Escapists 1/30

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:52:00 -0400

1.
because it is dark
the cane rises high above the soil
as minarets
    as limbs

it feels a long time
the stars falling off-time
they count
    count days

dust of Benin in the riverbed 
my palms
red as the dirt is
	red

but under wet night
is black as brackish water
dull sweat
	june heat

at both ends, the ocean
but we cut the cane
to the center
	mash

Obeah gwan save us 
dem seh mi fi wull on 
pon har frock
	gwan

decimals for eyes
faint smoke
soil rich of blood
	gwan

salt for the wounds
Maroon horn cuts
the unleashed dog
	of night

cane thick as shins
tough as tuff is tough
gwan
	mahnin soon come

nevver: Writer’s advice from writers

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 07:10:45 -0400

nevver:

Writer’s advice from writers

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Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:07:26 -0400

"I don’t have the heart to tell him that Momma has been dead for years…I was hanging wet sheets in..."

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:10:36 -0400

“I don’t have the heart to tell him that Momma has been dead for years…I was hanging wet sheets in the back yard when I heard a pop like a firecracker, yet shorter, sharper. It was a sound with a trace of familiarity, but enough strangeness to it to tell you that something bad had happened.”

- John Duncan Talbird, Daddy from The Well&Often Reader Issue 3 (via wellandoftenpress)

Honor your fallen brothers.

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:57:48 -0400

Honor your fallen brothers.

"My hope is eighty airplanes, poised on the runway, ready for take off."

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:37:00 -0400

““My hope is eighty airplanes, poised on the runway, ready for take off.””

- Aimee Bender, An Invisible Sign Of My Own

"You scroll down, imagining the piece almost over, and instead it goes on, and on. There should have..."

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:38:54 -0400

““You scroll down, imagining the piece almost over, and instead it goes on, and on. There should have been some warning at the beginning telling you how many words lie ahead.””

- One Thousand Words by Tim Parks for NYRB.

Why we like to keep em short on The Well&Often Reader

"I hear from Elsa that you are dissatisfied because you did not see your uncle Einstein. Let me..."

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 08:36:53 -0400

““I hear from Elsa that you are dissatisfied because you did not see your uncle Einstein. Let me therefore tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny beginning of a paunch. In addition an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth — if he happens to have a cigar — and a pen in his pocket or his hand. But crooked legs and warts he does not have, and so he is quite handsome — also no hair on his hands such as is often found on ugly men. So it is indeed a pity that you did not see me.””

- Einstein to his cousin’s eight-year-old daughter

"9. Become your work: Remember as a creative person who makes things, you are what you do. Outside of..."

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:20:07 -0400

““9. Become your work: Remember as a creative person who makes things, you are what you do. Outside of what you create and its success or failure, there is no way to measure you as a person. So be sure to keep cranking out great work or you’ll forget who you are.””

- Thoughts: 9 Ways To Hit The Wall by Matt Stevens

welzenis: Jan Willem van Welzenis Untitled,...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:37:48 -0500

welzenis:

Jan Willem van Welzenis

Untitled, 2011

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Well&Often: We Have No Secrets: WELL&OFTEN RECOMMENDS: RUNNING ALONE Running Alone by Halimah...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:20:51 -0500

Well&Often: We Have No Secrets: WELL&OFTEN RECOMMENDS: RUNNING ALONE Running Alone by Halimah...:

wellandoftenpress:

WELL&OFTEN RECOMMENDS: RUNNING ALONE

Running Alone by Halimah Marcus
One Story

You know a story is good when you care so much about the character’s outcome that you find yourself short of breath. This is even more impressive when this shortness of breath is brought on by the act of…

A review:

rememberance-of-things-past: Some Mucha Drawings and...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:23:09 -0500

rememberance-of-things-past:

Some Mucha Drawings and Paintings