January 30, 2011
Posted by William
Friday, I helped out with an 826DC workshop at Bell Multicultural High School in Columbia Heights. Bell’s Poetry Club meets after school each Friday, and we came by to work with them on metaphor. To fuel the discussion, we read “Snow Leopards at the Denver Zoo” by William Matthews (who I’d never heard of before—I’m [...]
January 26, 2011
Posted by William
Over the past couple weeks I worked on relaunching the website for Call + Response, an art show I co-curate with my friend Kira. The website for the second iteration of the show, Call + Response: Textures, is pretty different from the first version. The first was ultra minimal, hand-coded, and didn’t use a CMS—just [...]
January 19, 2011
Posted by William
I can’t stand Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, but the best part about waking up at 6:35 a.m. is his Writer’s Almanac. For five minutes he puts his cornmeal voice to good use, first to list this-day-in-literature history tidbits, then to read a poem. In this way I learned that three of my favorite [...]
