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Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Maybe she is a Goldilocks of Literary Genres
Imagine a writer, thinking herself into insanity. Trying one thing after another-too hot, too cold. Waiting until she can find the thing that is Just Right:
"Okay, so at one point after college, I realized I was a Writer-I had always identified myself as one, always did research and readings, kept a journal, etc-but I realized I hadn't WRITTEN.
So I literally began at my beginning.
I started doing Blogs. And Plays. And Short Stories. TV Pilots, Novels. And lately, I've also started doing Satire. Short pieces which focus on humor, on a good idea that gets developed-and also gets workshopped among you and your closest writing partners.
New York has hosted several of my pieces, and I've been proud to help others bring theirs forward (helping to produce is helping to pay it forward in your own "work")
Everything feels natural to each of the medium (media), but it's about persistence. And if something is not working, not breaking through, I'm willing to try the NEXT GENRE-the next pattern of storytelling. Because it IS all the same urge, just coming out in different frames and formats."
"Okay, so at one point after college, I realized I was a Writer-I had always identified myself as one, always did research and readings, kept a journal, etc-but I realized I hadn't WRITTEN.
So I literally began at my beginning.
I started doing Blogs. And Plays. And Short Stories. TV Pilots, Novels. And lately, I've also started doing Satire. Short pieces which focus on humor, on a good idea that gets developed-and also gets workshopped among you and your closest writing partners.
New York has hosted several of my pieces, and I've been proud to help others bring theirs forward (helping to produce is helping to pay it forward in your own "work")
Everything feels natural to each of the medium (media), but it's about persistence. And if something is not working, not breaking through, I'm willing to try the NEXT GENRE-the next pattern of storytelling. Because it IS all the same urge, just coming out in different frames and formats."
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Documenting the Decline of Greenpoint
At one point in the future, Greenpoint will have become the neighborhood it is growing into.
As of today, it is still in a weird transition.
On the same day, they listed 2 pieces of news in the hyper-local online sites.
First, our favorite restaurant is closing after 20 years (because that is the life expectancy of a joint in this hood?).
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/enids-in-greenpoint-to-close-at-the-end-of-march/
This is a year after Matchless closed, another great bar that defined the nightlife of this neighborhood.
And second, there was a piece of hate mail sent to a couple who are running a business out of their home. It was anti-semitic and anonymous (of course), and the funny part is-the couple isn't even JEWISH!!!
So what does that mean-were they targeted by stupid bigots (yes-that's certainly contributing), were they assuming that because one of them was Mexican/Cuban and the other was Italian. was it sheer terror or foreigners? In a Polish neighborhood?-With Williamsburg next door, can they not even IDENTIFY who they hate-or are they trying to target hipsters?
is the neighborhood shifting in ways that are freaking people out? Yes. But go to one of the local places and celebrate, while you still can. And be nice to your neighbors. Please.
As of today, it is still in a weird transition.
On the same day, they listed 2 pieces of news in the hyper-local online sites.
First, our favorite restaurant is closing after 20 years (because that is the life expectancy of a joint in this hood?).
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/enids-in-greenpoint-to-close-at-the-end-of-march/
This is a year after Matchless closed, another great bar that defined the nightlife of this neighborhood.
And second, there was a piece of hate mail sent to a couple who are running a business out of their home. It was anti-semitic and anonymous (of course), and the funny part is-the couple isn't even JEWISH!!!
So what does that mean-were they targeted by stupid bigots (yes-that's certainly contributing), were they assuming that because one of them was Mexican/Cuban and the other was Italian. was it sheer terror or foreigners? In a Polish neighborhood?-With Williamsburg next door, can they not even IDENTIFY who they hate-or are they trying to target hipsters?
is the neighborhood shifting in ways that are freaking people out? Yes. But go to one of the local places and celebrate, while you still can. And be nice to your neighbors. Please.
Monday, December 31, 2018
Combining Stories
What if Invisible Magic brought together The Swimming AND Greenpoint Ghost Story??
Friday, November 30, 2018
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Elyse, Ntozake and Maria
Three Giant Women of theater have passed away in the space of just a few days.
An influential director.
A playwright of African American women and expanded territories, opening her arms to inclusion of multiple communities. (For Black Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf, a Choreopoem)
A playwright of Hispanic women, opening the theater walls to audiences to Fefu and her Friends. Staging was nontraditional, taking people beyond a stage to different areas -seeing scenes in various order.
The world is better for them all.
An influential director.
A playwright of African American women and expanded territories, opening her arms to inclusion of multiple communities. (For Black Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf, a Choreopoem)
A playwright of Hispanic women, opening the theater walls to audiences to Fefu and her Friends. Staging was nontraditional, taking people beyond a stage to different areas -seeing scenes in various order.
The world is better for them all.
Ntozake Shange at the Dodge Poetry Festival, Sunday, October 21, 2018
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Hallway of Fog
On my way to work, I had a series of AMAZING visions that I want to print into the world.
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