accomplished: poetry in dorms

i just got home from a walk in the rain after slipping a poem under the door/in the door of every resident in Ethel Moore Hall.  Hopefully.  that place is a maze with three floors, like half-floors, and windy curvy craziness. so, i may have missed a few people.  but, i gave away 82 copies of my poem, "in books."  here are some (completely backwards order because i dont quite get blogger yet )photos from the process:

"for you"

this is Ethel Moore.

thanks to Cornelia Nixon, my thesis instructor, who sat down in the middle of Mills Hall and folded poems with me.

Here is the poem:

In books

February 22, 2010

 

Poetry in books

Small things in nooks

Feathers in the sky

Birds fly through

Wind sifting by

 

Small

Brave and thin

sparkling in

Through scents of morning meals

And the turning of wheels

Tiny scraps of metal

Little specs of dirt

Interesting faces

 

Tiny little spaces

Tiny words

Tiny hearts, big words

Spread across a banner like a table cloth

Here is my heart

She gives it away to strangers

Poetry in books

Poetry in you hand

My heart.

resturant poetry #2

after getting chinese food with Lauren:

The meal was stressful because elliott was running wild and Lauren and I both had headaches.  i wasn't in the mood to write a poem for the waiter:

resturant poetry #1

Orinda Village Cafe, after lunch with my parents and son:

current plan for this week:

-complete poems slipped under the doors in ethel moore dorm, aka "poetry in dorms" 

-continue planning for other projects

steps, tasks, materials to get for "poetry in dorms":

-buy 82 envelopes at Creative Re-Use (will not all be the same, will be cheap)

-print out 82 copies of poem, "in books"

-photograph process

-slip envelopes under doors around 5pm on Wednesday or Thursday

Thesis blog?

This blog will document the progress of my Senior Thesis in Poetry for Mills College.  The project component, a series of art projects,  will go along with my written thesis in poetry.

Preliminary list of projects:

-poems in envelopes under every door in Ethel Moore dorm

-words written all over my body and photographed

-large-scale magnetic poetry with public access

-poems on t-shirts

-dance/music videos as poetry

-poem on a bed sheet hung from an over pass on the 580 freeway

-poems on back of receipts at resturants

More information to come.