There are few things on the go, but if I haven’t posted on here yet, here you go:
- 1. My poem “The Climb” is up at The Week Shall Inherit The Verse.
http://theweekshallinherittheverse.blogspot.ca/2015/06/jacqueline-valencia.html
The poem is part of a larger lyrical project I’ve been working on whereupon I take some of my old poems and remake them via new views and methods. It’s kind of like using an evolving vocabulary (words, colours, media, my mixed culture, language), as I look for the source of what drives me to write poetry.
- 2. My short story “Weird Girl” is up at Lynn Crosbie’s HOOD.
http://lynncrosbie.com/2015/06/18/weird-girl-by-jacqueline-valencia-in-the-hood/
Also, a tiny part of a universe in which I’m basing the novel I’m currently working on. Accompanying image selected by Lynn Crosbie for our mutual love of Malcolm McDowell in Lindsay Anderson’s If…. (I was once a wee extra in a film with McDowell called SUCK, along with many of my goth friends. I only really said hello to him.)
- 3. I have a short story in this great anthology, Gods, Memes, And Monsters edited by Heather Wood:
http://www.stoneskinpress.com/index.php/gods-memes-and-monsters/
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- A few other things are going on, one of which is that I’m concentrating on prose, poetry, and submitting more work. It is because of this that I’m trying to finish and tie up some of my current conceptual work.
- I’m still doing this: http://gettinginsidejamesjoyceshead.blogspot.ca/ (Joyce can be so frustrating, but I keep coming back to it.Today’s transcription started with Bloom thinking on space exploration and somehow ended up talking about ovaries and sperm. That woke me up.)
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What I wanted to bring to you today was my closing the chapter on This Is Room 101
http://thisisroom101.blogspot.ca/
I wrote three paragraphs of 1984 and remixed them with three paragraphs from The Wall Street Journal’s headline story.
This project was inspired in part by my experiences as a dj and seeing how I could use them with just words. Olivia Rosane at The State did a piece on my project called “Living in Dystopia”: http://www.thestate.ae/live-blogging-dystopia/
I found many of the things she touched upon very interesting and her analysis blew me away. I didn’t have any big intellectual epiphany in starting it or while doing it. It just seemed like something to do while I fought off writer’s block.
It yielded this little chapbook called Text One which I wrote as part of the Found Poetry Review’s Oulipost month: http://www.lulu.com/shop/jacqueline-valencia/text-one/paperback/product-21529247.html
So in an effort to have a record that I did this project, I’ve made a free downloadable PDF available with a cover to accompany it.
PDF: https://jacquelinevalencia.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/thisisroom1011.pdf
Cover: https://jacquelinevalencia.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/thisisroom101cover1.pdf
I have printed up 5 paperback copies of the project. It is 411 pages.:
One copy I will keep. The other four I will be on sale from me personally for $198.40 each. Each copy will be signed, numbered, and come packaged with original artwork by me.
If you’d like one of the four, please email me at ravensee at gmail dot com.
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A reminder that the “2016 Toronto Poetry Conference 1st planning meeting” is on July 22, 2015 at 8pm Pauper’s Pub (539 Bloor Street West) in Toronto. All are welcome, not just to plan, but to hear input or share in some grub.
That’s when I’ll select and finalize a date for the conference.
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