A Writer's Notebook, Day One-Hundred-And-Ninety-Two

I went to a reading s evening with Sy Hoahwah, who is a Yappituka Comanche and Southern Arapaho poet, and I found his work quite interesting on a number of different levels.  For one, his blending of imagery that is rooted in contemporary poetry with systems of thought from native cultures was really striking.  In many ways, his work is building connections between ways of thinking and different mythological landscapes.  The poems are able to pull from each of these different cultural contexts in a way that is very natural and unobtrusive, even mentioning it, in some way, feels to be pointing out something that should not be discussed, as it is such a natural feature of the work. Beyond that, the work was also filled with exciting imagery and the unique fascinations that mark any poetic voice.  I am very glad to have gone and look forwards to reading that work more closely.

 I also did write a new poem.  It feels that it might have a bit more work to be done, really,  and that I might not have gotten to the end of it, but I am glad with the work itself. It was another poem that came out without forethought on the idea.  It just happened, and I am glad for that, but I may need to push a bit further on this piece, and see if I have more that will take it to another layer and a deeper level.

 I still need to write that play, and I do have a stronger and stronger sense of it, so I believe that will happen soon.  I certainly have a pretty strong sense of the plays opening, an idea of the general progress of events in the story, and what it is really intending to communicate.  So, I feel that I am close to the point where it will spill out onto the page, and I am just waiting for it.  I should try to give myself a kick in that direction tomorrow.

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