Image: Reji For the last few weeks, I had not gone to sleep before 4 a.m. on most nights. A poet going to bed late is, of course, no big deal. Edna St. Vincent Millay once left a note for her housekeeper saying not to wake her because she’d been up working until 5 a.m.; … Continue reading “‘Passion Without Flesh, Love Without Climax’”
Author: Jordi Alonso
Performing Poets
Imagine you’re a young chef, about to leave Le Cordon Bleu after having studied under some of the best gastronomers the world has to offer, and, just as you’re sent off to practice your art, you realize that nobody taught you the proper way to set a table. Sure, it’s not essential to know whether… Continue reading Performing Poets
So You’re Waiting to Hear Back from MFA Programs: Post Application Advice With Jordi Alonso
What did you do to get through the post application period? Applications (mostly due in January and February) happened right in the middle of the busiest weeks of my semester at Kenyon, as the senior creative project that would let me graduate with this lovely clause appended to my English Major: with an emphasis in… Continue reading So You’re Waiting to Hear Back from MFA Programs: Post Application Advice With Jordi Alonso
First Semester: A Villain Poet, A Panic Attack, and Two Days at the Beach
I came to the Southampton MFA through their summer conference. When it came time to apply to programs last winter, during my senior year at Kenyon, applying to the program that hosted a week-long festival where I’d met life-long friends and mentors and was so close to the beach, made perfect sense. I knew, of… Continue reading First Semester: A Villain Poet, A Panic Attack, and Two Days at the Beach
“And now, to delight my friends, I shall sing beautifully.”
Eros has informed, propelled, and guided my poems, my literary ambitions and my life up to this point. It has influenced the languages I’ve studied for the past five years, the poets I’ve read, the people I’ve pursued, and the MFA programs I applied to during my last year at Kenyon College. As writers, we… Continue reading “And now, to delight my friends, I shall sing beautifully.”