Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The dandiest of today's findings

...in no particular order:
  • riddlehoard, a new blog by Cassidy McFadzean. I've been preoccupied with a brilliant observation and question she posed at Talking Fresh. I imagine this thinking will find its way into my work.
  • Gerald Hill's post honouring his teachers. Gerry was my mentor in the SWG mentorship program and thanks to him two of the teachers he mentions have directly influenced me as well. I worked with Fred Wah in a poetry colloquium at the Sage Hill Writing Experience and with Tom Wayman in a workshop at the first Talking Fresh.
  • Zach Wells on the poetry and poetics of description. Both his talk and the discussion that follows are well worth the time.

8 comments:

Cassidy said...

Thanks for the shout out!!!!!!

Brenda Schmidt said...

My pleasure! And thank you!

Ian LeTourneau said...

glad you thought the discussion was worth the time, even though I rambled directionless on that first question I had. It was a great talk and Ross, Zach and I continued later over lunch (and perhaps Zach secretly recorded it, too!).

I'm gonna go check out riddlehoard now...

Brenda Schmidt said...

Yes, the talk was great and the discussion had plenty of meat in it. What a treat to be able to sit here and listen to it all with my morning coffee. Of course I ended up ordering two books because of it. Bonus!

carin said...

Lovely findings!

Brenda Schmidt said...

And today books. It's all one big adventure!

Zachariah Wells said...

Yes indeed, thanks for the shout out. Which books did you order?

Brenda Schmidt said...

It's certainly worth shouting about. I ordered Self Comes to Mind and Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry.