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How has your sense of the individual experience contributed to your endeavors to write and/or your writing style?
For a while, I wanted to be Jack Kerouac. Then, it was ee cummings. Then Jack Spicer. Then Jackson Pollack. Then Henry Miller. Then Andrew Goldswerthy. Then Banksy. Or maybe it's like that over-graffitied wall in your town. At some point, the wordpaintblurs.
What made you choose the experimental form that you did in "Seed Material?"
I'm interested in public text -- the language coating our public spaces and experiences. I'm curious how that affects us as we try to swim or drown in it. In Seed Material, the multi-media hybrid form grew out of a need to engage that text as it exists: graphically, disconnected, reoccurring, and re-appropriated.
However, I have to thank Gavin Kroeber, a friend and collaborator, for the inception of Seed Material. We had been working on a piece for the Ontological Theater's Downstairs Series, and he continued to ask for a better reason to cover the buildings in NYC with magnetic poetry. Thanks.
Where do you find inspiration for your work?
I think it's hard to find inspiration in specific places. If you look for it, it vanishes. I typically wait for it in the habit of typing. Or in conversation. Maybe "invocation" is a better term.
Is there anything else you think we should know about you as a writer or your work?
I'm curious to know how this piece may or will become public text, and consequently how this text may be re-used, re-worked, and/or re-plied to. I welcome anyone to play with the piece if they wish. Heck, all the words used were re-purposed from my dictionary anyway. consequently how this text may be re-used, re-worked, and/or re-plied to. I welcome anyone to play with the piece if they wish. Heck, all the words used were re-purposed from my dictionary anyway.
David Silverstein's work is entitled: Seed Material. Its brilliant concepts, visual effects and original writing style is what capitvated us; we are proud to feature it.
On writing the individual experience...
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Poetry
With its focus on both the narrative and poetic "I"s, poetry really demonstrates Pinion's focus on the individual perspective. We received poetry on a wide variety of topics, so we are showcasing this section for demonstrating variety within a first-person perspective.
*David Silverstein, "Seed Material"
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This photograph, taken by Lucia Veliu, really captues the individual experience and emotional expression we're seeking to explore with our journal
*Mark Hamilton, "Lake Sevan"
*Samantha Le, "The Hanging Family Tree"
*Claire Rawson, "Static in the Snow"
*Tyrell Johnson, "The Disappearing"
Mark Hamilton--- Lake Sevan
"Ballads of quiet
clout my aching temple
as I walk in the rain—
the cold goose pimple rain—
towards her soul..."
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Samantha Le--- The Hanging Family Tree
"I was Januaried, Februaried,
Marched—father’s furious footsteps felt lonely
down the hospital hallways..."
Bhumi Patel
Mari Saric
Lucia Velicu
E. Louise Beach
Ashely Shivar
Amberly Fox
John Pollock
Desmond Kon
Daniel Ryer
Marjorie Laydon
What Should I Tell the Doctor
Sacred Land
Vale Filius
Indian History
Intrusion
Somewhere in Middlemarch
A Trip to Old Italia
The Homestead
House of Morsels
One Legged Angel
Current Encounter
The Golden Rod
Desire
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This piece has been modified for web-formatting. We recommend veiwing "Seed Material," in its original formatting, by downloading the PDF here:
Tamra Wilson
Father's Day
Jimmy J. Pack, Jr.
Success for the Red Line Preacher
Jessica Dainty John
The Watch
Tyrell Johnson
"Marketway" by Mari Saric
The Disappearing
Jessica Dainty
Jessica Dainty Johns holds an MFA from Lesley University and is co-founder of The Kinship Writers Association. Her fiction has previously appeared in the online journal Fiction Weekly. She is a recipient of the Margaret Woodruff Award for Creative Writing and has taught classes and/or seminars at Lesley University and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. She lives in the greater Boston area.
Tamra Wilson lives in North Carolina and has published more than 50 stories in such journals and anthologies as Northern Carolina Literary Review, Crossroads: A Southern Culture Annual, Rockhurst Review, and elsewhere. She received the 2009 Jesse Stuart Prize for Young Adult Fiction and will complete her MFA at Stonecoast the University of Southern Maine in 2011.
Tyrell Johnson is a student in the MFA program at the University of California, Riverside where he studies fiction and poetry. His reviews are published at hipsterbookclub.com, and his
poetry can be found in the January 2011 issue of Autumn Sky Poetry. He lives in Bellingham, Washington, with his wife Tessa and their imaginary Siberian Husky.
Jimmy J. Pack
Jimmy Pack is a writer living in Philadelphia, PA. He has his MA in Creative Writing from Temple University, and is currently teaching creative writing at Penn State , Abington. To date, he has been published in Rosebud, The Rockford Review, Just a Moment, Howling Dog Magazine, Pangolin Papers, The Berkeley Fiction Review, Mobius, and Lost on Route 66, with forthcoming publications in Cooweescoowee, Karamu and Firepoint.
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