Chris Lott @fncll@writing.exchange

It was nice to have a reason to create an erasure/blackout poem for the first time in a while! And to use crayons :) Third image is a swatch of the dictionary collage envelope. #MailSwap #BlackoutPoetry #ErasurePoetry

I make this #katexic weekly(ish) #newsletter thing. It's chock full o' weekly(ish) goodness. You might want to subscribe. → https://katexic.com/announcements/newsletter-january-6-2018/

@GeoffreyGevalt Hi -- yes, those are mine! KUAC is a subset (a radio segment) of Katexic -- the newsletter/site.

I've read Hamlet at least 30 times, probably closer to 50, since I was 14. And only a few minutes ago thought about Horatio's name containing "oratio" and what that might mean given 'oratio's (usually drastically under-appreciated) role in the play. #shakespeare #literaryshowerthoughts

@cremullins They were a significant part of the depiction of Santa as a heavy, jovial figure, though, iirc.

@ontploffing Interesting...thanks! I'm pretty much all paper these days, but that script could be handy.

Do you keep a #journal (or more than one)? A #diary? What are your #journaling practices or habits?

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The old man, the mayor, was trying to say that the world was knit together with threads we could not see, that the wind was a bridge between people.
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|n|otabilia 474 ⁂ Michael Martone ⁂ "The Mayor of the Sister City Speaks to the Chamber of Commerce in Klamath Falls, Oregon, on a Night in December in 1976" || read it in #Notabilia, a daily(ish) newsletter: http://ktxc.to/nbts #flashfiction #tinyfiction #prosepoem

This weeks #katexic #newsletter turned into a themed issue! → "essence of quiescence" featuring obmutescence, silences of all kinds, philip k. dick, carthusian monks, puddles and a bunch more → https://katexic.com/announcements/newsletter-december-16-2018/

@solitarywalker My vote would be: yes and go with the standard suggestion of _Fathers and Sons_ ... and if you are into short fiction, then _Sportsman's Sketches_!

I updated the Katexic WORD archive to include a half-dozen new pieces including the latest, which is, if not the best piece I've done, certainly one of the most important to me and my community, still/always reeling from loss. → Read and/or listen: https://katexic.com/kuac/

…They stand still
in the glassy nightmare
while the cricket scratches softly
at the invisible…

#notabilia 473 ⁂ Nelly Sachs ⁂ "In the blue distance" ⁂ http://ktxc.to/nbts ⁂ #poetry #commonplace

…How endless an hour seems compared to a proportionless forever…

#notabilia 472 ⁂ Eric Pankey ⁂ "The Book of an Hour" ⁂ http://ktxc.to/nbts ⁂ #poetry #commonplace

‪Eric Pankey. Found in _Crow Work_ #poetry #TinyPoems‬

@wion I might do that! My work took me deep into the WordPress woods and I haven't had time to use much else for a while. But that is changing. I'm glad to head Txp is still going.

@wion Indeed and thanks! I take it you were a Txp-er too?

@wion when editing your profile you can verify that a site is yours by putting a tag on that site, which enables the check mark —> “You can verify yourself as the owner of the links in your profile metadata. For that, the linked website must contain a link back to your Mastodon profile. The link back must have a rel="me" attribute. The text content of the link does not matter.”

#WordFun by Demetri Martin

…And then, too, I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself…

|n|otabilia 471 ⁂ Tana French ⁂ from _In the Woods_ ⁂ http://ktxc.to/nbts