In the past, I would make sure to design the family end-of-the-year holiday card before Christmas, but I don't worry about that deadline anymore. Nowadays, my deadline is December 31st, the end of the year. So I've done well by completing this card two days early (though I might try to find different envelopes tomorrow for this little publication, maybe blue envelopes to match the blue paper and ink of the card).

The genesis of this card is like that of all of these cards: I wait until an idea occurs to me when I'm not thinking of the card. At first, I thought of making the cards wider than they are tall and to draw something across the eventual crease in the wrap-around cover. But that wasn't enough, so I didn't start working on that idea.
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(a pwoermd written in Saratoga Springs, New York, on 12 June 2003, found just today in a huge stack of unfiled writings I'd forgotten even existed, and thus missing from ntst, my book of collected pwoermds)

60. Poetreality

Riffing off ideas engendered by reading David Shields’ Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, a book written primarily in texts appropriated from others and usually edited to suit him along the way. A work of art is a response to the world.

a. wreading

Reading is a form of watching, or watching is the method that produces reading.
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I finished responding to a brief interview today, but one that I think covered valuable ground, at least for my purposes. The process of responding to the set of questions presented to me allowed me to think through a few issues and to clarify them to myself. Here are two paragraphs from my response, two paragraphs on the idea that everything we create, certainly everything I create, is bound inexorably with the moment of its creation.

My poetics is a poetics of presence within the language.
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This is the seventh year in a row that I've celebrated Christmas here at dbqp with a look at a piece of work by Jack Kimball. Every Christmas at dbqp has done the same, for it is a tradition at this blog, even in the waning days of blogdom, and a tradition I don't want to lose.

Jack tells me that this is not a Christmas poem, even though (or, possibly, because) he knew I'd be posting it on Christmas day.

Karri Kokko Explains His "Writing Without Looking" from Geof Huth on Vimeo.

During a discussion over Skype from Helsinki, Finland, visual and other poet Karri Kokko explains his booklet "Writing without Looking," as he shows pages from the book to Geof Huth, who videotapes and comments from Schenectady, New York, on 20 December 2010 (21 December in Helsinki).

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