by Kevin Spenst | Dec 11, 2009 | grad school at UBC, just me talking to you, writing advice
I got up this morning and finished the teaching outline for the AMS mini-school application at UBC. They contacted me yesterday after a two month wait with the news that I’d been short-listed and now they were interested in seeing a syllabus I’d use for...
by Kevin Spenst | Nov 13, 2009 | grad school at UBC, poetry, writing advice
While there are tons of benefits to grad school, the downside is not having time for extras. Dear reader, you are certainly more than an extra, but what I’m saying is that I’ve been inundated with writing, reading, marking, blah, blah, etc. All the balls...
by Kevin Spenst | Oct 8, 2009 | grad school at UBC, poetry
So a couple weeks into poetry 510 and I learn from a classmate that she has a collection of poems entitled Sumac’s Red Arms. I ask her for a copy and the next week, I’m holding a lovely book in my hands. The poems are the fruition of ten years working on...
by Kevin Spenst | Sep 3, 2009 | poetry, writing advice
One Night Stanzas is a smart little literary site straight out of Scotland which is currently featuring a couple of my twitter poems under the monthly Poet’s Corner. SOME THOUGHTS ON THE WEEKEND STIRRED UP LARGELY BY CD RELEASE PARTY FOR “ALLUVIAL FAN” is the...
by Kevin Spenst | Sep 2, 2009 | poetry
As you may or may not know, I’ve been writing three poems a day at Twitter since December of last year. Over this stretch of time, my practice of daily writing has defined itself into the current form of 1) exactly 140 characters and 2) a linking cycle of...
