Aaron Belz

We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline ...

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so ...

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've ...

Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and ...

Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expec ...

Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what ...

Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some ...

The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never ...

The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in rea ...

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I ...

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real ...

I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they' ...

I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to ...

Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. You ...

The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo ...