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...
December 2011
9 posts
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...
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...
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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...
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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
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...
@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.
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).
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...
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...
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...
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.
June 2011
17 posts
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.
You are a bad thief
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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
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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...
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.
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...
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.
: 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.
a bright wall in a dark room.: The Tree of Life... →
brightwalldarkroom:
SOMEDAY WE’LL FALL DOWN AND WEEP
by Elizabeth Wilcox For a somewhat significant period of time, I was terrified of elevators. I had nightmares about them—never about an elevator crashing to the ground, or even about getting stuck in one, but about the elevators themselves. In the dreams,…
This movie was beautiful in so many ways, and here is a lovely review of...
(lost the beat a little, but oh well)
Oh the...
Today in Women's History: Mary Dyer is hanged for... →
todayinwomenshistory:
In her early 20s, Mary Dyer and her young husband left England, settled in Boston and began a family. Within four years, Mary had given birth three times. In 1637, the fourth child was stillborn and secretly buried. Dyer nearly died.
These events were common in early America. What…
If I were to want to join a church or have any association with Christianity,...
May 2011
16 posts
Ahem Ahem: new tumblr: the first step of... →
idastewie:
Hello world! I started a new tumblr (idastewart.tumblr.com) for all my writing-related whatnot. Please follow me, friend me, forward me, bookmark me, blog me, reblog me, blogroll me, link me, like me, love me, meme me…
As of now, I’m my only follower, which is a little too poetic.
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Ida is a poet extraordinaire and will have a new book out soon. You want to follow her &...
SPLICE -- a new chapbook by the one and only... →
idastewie:
via the one and only Kyle Minor @ htmlgiant
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Thanks, sweet Ida & Kyle!