Manifesto 3 (What poems are for, OR good writing is hard to eat)
I. I’ve always been a little obsessed with cooking shows and food shows. It comes in waves. Maybe because it’s easier to understand the...
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Rebecca Macijeski
- Nov 16, 2021
- 3 min
Manifesto 2 (what else I'm collecting)
I think about how my brain, sitting there all warm in my head, which I imagine is kind of like a private spa, stays roughly the same size...
Rebecca Macijeski
- Oct 5, 2021
- 1 min
Manifesto 1 (Resistance and Refusal)
My poems live in the pivots, the micro-moments that transition us—in fits and starts—further from ignorance and closer to consciousness.
Rebecca Macijeski
- Sep 15, 2021
- 2 min
All magpie, no focus
So I’m setting myself this project again. For as long as it feels fruitful, I will write manifesto after manifesto.
Rebecca Macijeski
- Apr 17, 2020
- 1 min
National Poetry Month at Home
I'm about half-way through. Take a look at what I have so far.
Rebecca Macijeski
- Apr 16, 2020
- 2 min
Imagination and Self-Quarantine
It’s not the crystals in the geode that generate a feeling of wonder, just like it’s not really words that build a poem
Rebecca Macijeski
- Feb 13, 2020
- 3 min
On Teaching, On Writing
I have drafts and revisions piling up again around the house—each sheet of paper or notebook marked with its own incomplete code.
Rebecca Macijeski
- Nov 15, 2019
- 1 min
NaNoWriMo Write-In (November 2019)
National Novel Month Writing Marathon
Rebecca Macijeski
- Oct 7, 2019
- 2 min
On Listening and Silence: Not Writing as an Integral Part of Writing
I grew up in a small house filled with people and conversations and music and sound. The full noise of eating and talking and Bach and bird
Rebecca Macijeski
- Sep 28, 2019
- 1 min
Banned Books Week September 2019
Watson Library, the English Department, and students from across campus came together to participate in two read-out events in observance...
Rebecca Macijeski
- Aug 29, 2019
- 2 min
Looking Ahead for Fall
I'm nearing the end of the second week of a new semester. Meeting and working with other writers is a major part of what keeps me...
Rebecca Macijeski
- Aug 12, 2019
- 1 min
Looking Back on Summer
This summer was another full one. Lots of poem stuff and lots of travel mixed in with some slow living and late nights. I read AP Exams...
Rebecca Macijeski
- Jun 25, 2019
- 1 min
Creative Writing Camp June 17-21, 2019
This year saw our second annual NSU Summer Creative Writing Camp for local writers aged 10-18. I worked with colleagues Shea Montgomery...
Rebecca Macijeski
- Apr 20, 2019
- 1 min
Demon Writers' Guild April 18, 2019
I was excited to support the NSU Demon Writers' Guild at their springtime community reading at the Cane Brake Cafe. Faculty Advisor, Shea...
Rebecca Macijeski
- Apr 19, 2019
- 1 min
Poem in your Pocket Day April 18, 2019
As part of the National Poem-in-your-Pocket-Day celebration, some colleagues and I from the Department of English, Foreign Languages, and...
Rebecca Macijeski
- Apr 15, 2019
- 1 min
Third Annual LitCon April 12th and 13th, 2019
This year NSU's LitCon expanded to include participants from around the region in a two-day celebration of all things related to...