February 2012
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You guys, I loved Drive. I loved Ryan Goslings jeans, and I loved the orchestrated violence, and I loved the use of color and silence. I am such a sucker for style. I am still not sold on Gosling in general, but those pants did fit properly, I will give him that. Also, this whole set piece from the hallway of the strip club to the dressing room was fantastic. Refn can certainly put together the...
Feb 9th
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Feeling a terrible nostalgia for my old crappy apartments. Now, they seem cavernous—if only I had an entire crappy apartment to fill up. & my stuff! Where did it go? Burlington: Brattleboro:(despite the fact that half of my apartment building was burnt)   Burlington:
Feb 8th
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Of course a supremely frustrating day should end in rain. Z and I will go dancing tonight to defy the week’s utter ridiculousness. Have you subscribed to my (not just mine, but me & three other smart cookies) horror podcast yet? I think you’ll like it, my smartypants friends, and I would love to hear your ideas/debates about horror, which, if anything, is at least a polarizing...
Feb 4th
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Movies update
So, a while ago I posted movies I still needed to see from 2011. Here is an update: Martha Marcy May Marlene The Skin I Live In Drive Take Shelter Certified Copy: Saw Certified Copy and loved it; will have a BWDR review up soon about it. The Future: Biggest disappointment of the year for me. I know Miranda July’s work, so it isn’t the artsy stuff (walking t-shirts, talking cats,...
Feb 2nd
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WatchWatch
So, since I have many a movie fan on my Tumblr list, and many genre fans as well, I wanted to alert you all of my new podcast, The Brood, a discussion of topics in horror film. My fellow podcasters & I will delve in a critical and insightful discussion of topics in horror every month. Check out our first episode, in which we discuss what horror is, why we love it, and what films inspired us....
Feb 2nd
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January 2012
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One Perfect Bird is available for purchase!
OK, so you are probably tired of hearing about this, but, it’s getting real: My book, One Perfect Bird, is now out for purchase from Sundress Publications! Official Press Release Ahoy! One Perfect Bird A Collection of Poems by Letitia Trent Knoxville, TN— Sundress Publications is pleased to announce the release of Letitia Trent’s One Perfect Bird (Sundress Publications $14.99) on...
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December 2011
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I hate it when old people, such as myself, post on old videos on youtube with comments like “They don’t make music like this anymore! Now it’s all Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber”. I guess old people forget that even in the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s, pop music was pretty bad, too, or at least equally vapid, sexist, or anything else you might want to label it. If...
Dec 28th
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a bright wall in a dark room.: A Christmas Carol... →
brightwalldarkroom: I WEAR THE CHAINS I FORGED IN LIFE by Letitia Trent Unlike most kids between eight and twelve, I dreaded Christmas break more than I dreaded school, and I dreaded school almost every day to the level of sickness. Dread made my stomach churn while on the inevitably long bus rides (we always… It’s my essay about my very favorite Christmas movie! Damn, I love...
Dec 22nd
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Movies I Still Need to Watch
I need to catch up on so many movies. Here is a list for myself & for you, which I will probably add to: Martha Marcy May Marlene The Skin I Live In Drive Take Shelter Certified Copy The Future A Dangerous Method Meek’s Cutoff Warriors The Interrupters Project Nim I am excited about every one of these movies. God, I wish I had hours and hours and hours to spend watching...
Dec 22nd
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All, you can pre-order my book, One Perfect Bird, from Sundress Publications. Here are some poems from the book, if you want to try-before-you-buy: Poemelon As it Ought to Be Juked
Dec 20th
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Dec 9th
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a bright wall in a dark room.: Keanu Reeves Week:... →
brightwalldarkroom: TAKE ME TO THE RIVER. by Letitia Trent Keanu Reeves’ brand of blank-faced, affectless, trying really hard acting is easy to mock: you’ve probably intoned “I know Kung Fu” at least once since The Matrix came out. His presence as a pretty-but-not-terribly-talented actor can hide the… Oh, it’s Keanu Reeves week, you guys, and the best is yet to come, but...
Dec 5th
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@BWDR →
brightwalldarkroom: A Bright Wall in a Dark Room has joined the Twitter masses. You know what that means. Follow us here! Ya’ll, I hear that Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey is coming up soon, so really, you need to get with the BWDR twitter and immediately know when a new fabulous essay is up.
Dec 1st
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November 2011
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I’ve got some poems up at Poemeleon, yo, along with other awesomepoets like Sherman Alexie, Martha Silano, Tony Trigilio, Michelle Bitting, etc! These poems will be in my upcoming book “One Perfect Bird”, by the way, in case you want to, like, rush out and read more of the same (though you gotta wait until January).
Nov 30th
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A few things
Awesome things right now: 1. Fantomatik features great artists/photographers, but I like this list of photographs of geniuses, particularly Collette with a flaming cake. 2. This Kazhuo Ishiguro story is basically the kind of writing I wish I did, but don’t, because I like to explain too much. 3. My sister and I put up the Christmas tree. Here we are sitting in front of it. This looks...
Nov 29th
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I am so back
Things I plan to write about/think about in this very space this week: 1. My sort of love for Harold Bloom even though he is a jerk and absurdly married to the canon and even bloviates while committing sexual harassment (i.e. “You have the aura of election about you”), but God, he really believes in the importance of literature, and I want more people to have that passion. But not...
Nov 17th
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a bright wall in a dark room.: Melancholia (2011) →
brightwalldarkroom: LIFE IS ONLY ON EARTH AND NOT FOR LONG. by Letitia Trent Melancholia opens with eerie, dream-like, slow-motion scenes: A woman clutches her child as she trudges through wet ground on an immaculate golf course, another woman watches as wisps of energy leak form her fingertips, and a… Hey, ya’ll—I wrote about Melancholia & my sort of love/hate for...
Nov 16th
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Nov 15th
undertrees asked: I'm glad you're on the mend, but JESUS HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? Were you battling robots? Did Wile E. Coyote use a giant lever to push a boulder onto you? Was it on a dare? If you'd prefer not to relive it, I can totally sympathize, but... wow, that's an impressive break!
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July 2011
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I have not been here often due to my move soon from Israel to Arkansas. Once that has cleared & life resumes its shape, I hope to be back to writing about movies, books, music, and re-posting pictures of people in pretty dresses. Wish me luck on July 13th! I make a long, scary flight a newish life.
Jul 10th
June 2011
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My Poetry News/Writing Stuff Blog →
All, here is my poetry and writing news blog. I’ll probably cross-post things here, but that’s where I will do my dilligent updating. My facebook fanpage is also a good place to keep up with news about the December book, if you are interested. 
Jun 27th
You are a bad thief
sarahwrotethat: route9litmag: by Dorothea Lasky Children (detail) Lauren Kohne Children, you are a bad thief I was waiting for this poem to tell you that That you are bad Read More I’m delighted to announce that Route 9, the journal I edit for UMass Amherst, is now hosted by Tumblr. Check out stories by Gabe Durham, Rachel B. Glaser, Mike Young, poems by Heather Christle, Matthew...
Jun 27th
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Jun 26th
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So, here is some fantastic news: I will have my first full-length book of poetry out in December by Sundress Publications! It’ll be called One Perfect Bird. Since it’s not out until December, I won’t post a whole lot more until around then, but you can be my “fan” on facebook (courtesy of Sundress), where most book-related updates will happen.
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So, in my tragic summer of really inconvenient unemployment, I am doing a lot of writing, and if you are interested, you can read my stuff here (please do!).  I wrote an Article about master short story writer, Shirley Jackson (who should be known by everyone, not just horror writers): “I could live there all alone, she thought, slowing the car to look down the winding garden path to the...
Jun 16th
a bright wall in a dark room.: Blue Valentine... →
brightwalldarkroom: YOU AND ME by Chad P. Essentially, we’re hard-wired to root for love. We want relationships to work out, onscreen and off. We want to believe couples make it, because we want to make it, too. We want to meet cute. We want to fall, head over heels. We want to write songs and have… Also, read it, read it.
Jun 15th
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: Boys and Girls, it's time we talk about boys and... →
ana-ng: Two days ago, I read Julie Klausner’s Don’t Fear the Dowager blog post. Then I’ve read Lena Chen’s two cents on the matter, followed by the article on Racialicious about the racial and socioeconomic context of all this ‘manic pixie dream girl chic’ buzz. I feel a lot of things about just… This post is amazing. Read, read, read it.
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