Poem Thoughts

Rebecca Macijeski

May 24, 20223 min read

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

Nov 16, 20213 min read

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, 20211 min read

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, 20212 min read

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, 20201 min read

National Poetry Month at Home

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

Rebecca Macijeski

Apr 16, 20202 min read

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

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Rebecca Macijeski

Feb 13, 20203 min read

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

Oct 7, 20192 min read

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

Aug 29, 20192 min read

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, 20191 min read

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...