Poem Thoughts

Rebecca Macijeski

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...

Rebecca Macijeski

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

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

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

National Poetry Month at Home

I'm about half-way through. Take a look at what I have so far.

Rebecca Macijeski

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

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

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

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

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...