Days 30 and 31

Thursday

For the workshop, we worked on the seven layer breathing through the body. It means starting with the pores and going down to the marrow then coming back to the pores. 

Then we drew our body out an actual size. We labeled different things that our body told us. Then we wrote a poem out of that.

What I love is we had to figure a way to perform it. And my group came up with doing it like a conversation where one of us would say something like a line or a metaphor and the other would say oh that reminds me of this which is and then they would read a line from their pole. This will make a really good student activity.

And gave a talk and then showed her black Lodge opera. What is interesting is the whole volume as Burroughs thing we just can't shake off. I feel sad that the people who took her libretto changed it removed things and really just made the thing their own. That it didn't really feel like a collaboration.

There was a fantastic reading, especially as the conversational part of what Tango did. Like a conversation, with little heh and going intense, then back to just a calm with heh.

Friday

Inspiration from Edwin Torres, to check out books on kundalini and somatic healing. Develop writing out of.

Another breathing exercise that we then move around the room and then go up to a wall and just put our hands on the wall. It was a really intense sense of embodiment and it made the writing on a different level.

So that the writing could say something about being in that vibration of the room.

Edwin did his discussion on how the writing is somewhere outside of what is said or experienced. That there are Pointers that lead us in the poem.

Student reading was really fantastic that students even sang a song or did some kind of performance. I managed to take four different poems some from the beginning of some of two mothers leading into the two women and then a poem to finish from this removed utopia. I love how the poem ended, that I delivered it as a conversation. That they were just some really easy metaphors and then the two women kind of a spoken word and then ending on a high language poem.

I have a really High sense and admire Ronaldo Wilson. One of the younger students here getting a ba did something in the colloquium called word search. It was really amazing putting the poem together like a word search but there were three words that stood out that were highlighted. Ronaldo bad it is back and then spent two hours talking to him, looking at his poems, giving him advice for sending work out.