We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline ...
View quoteAfter the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so ...
View quoteWriting essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've ...
View quoteHumor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and ...
View quoteSurprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expec ...
View quoteNegative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what ...
View quoteWhenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some ...
View quoteThe language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never ...
View quoteThe brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in rea ...
View quotePoetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I ...
View quoteI don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real ...
View quoteI want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they' ...
View quoteI gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to ...
View quoteNothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. You ...
View quoteThe brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo ...
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