Anonymous asked: please have a meeting on anger again. i couldn't go last year. everyone has so much anger and frustration in them lately. thank you. :)
We can definitely do that. In fact, I already have someone in mind to help facilitate it…
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September 27, 2011
September 27, 2011
how to: lose yrself - grace courtney howard
I could coach you
and show you how to really lose
yrself
I’m good at it. well-versed, I’ve practiced for
yrs and now I fluctuate day-to-day -
either i know full well who the fuck
i am or i am gray paint
and i haven’t a clue but i
like covering all of the canvas
just the same
and i’m good at that too.
today i am a barista
that got to work at four am
and dealt with angryshittycustomers
(they weren’t angry because the coffee was bad,
but simply because the world was shit and they drank too much
coffee and now the line to the bathrooms
is hella long)
and four hrs from now
i am falling in love with someone
i don’t even know
but at least i think
they have really nice curves
but hey, we’re afraid to touch each other
and we’re both ADD and
i tried to
mail you a letter
i tried to make myself better
and put all my little hopes in an envelope
but the post was closed
and little things like that make me
angry
so i sat outside
yelled curses at USPS
because i really wanted to mail you
my newest stuff today. today.
i have become so impatient that
it’s becoming an
art
and next yr
i’ll be teaching an intro course on it
at seven am.
i was sleeping in the other day
or maybe daydreaming
that i had a
sunburn and was kissing you
on a beach while we were surrounded
by lions in the middle of winter
and five minutes later you’ll be
pissed off by my intellect
and my antics
and my near saint-like presence
and i will come full circle, i can assure you
you will hate me like you were always meant to.
but i jerk awake and
i’m behind on readings
and i don’t know
(sometimes) what to do
to pull myself out of the well filling with water.
a self-destructing experience
an inescapable labyrinth
that i have no idea how
i created but i did it!
and i get a lot of pats on the back about it
and lots of compliments
about how my shirt colour today
really works with the colour of my eyes
and tmrw i will
fall apart in a different way.
just wait.
and smile.
September 27, 2011
Meeting #3 in Review
This week we talked about the upcoming Pride Week events—namely, our Open Mic Night with Julie Wade! Open Mic Night will be on Wednesday, October 5th, at 8 PM in the Bingham Poetry Room in Ekstrom Library. The sign up sheet is in the Intersection. We also did a group poem about what “pride” means to us.
Also, we are going to start having weekly meetings! We will have “themed” meetings every other week, and the meetings in between will be constructive criticism workshops, for those people working on pieces outside of QWG and wanting feedback. Details are still being worked out, but watch this space!
Our prompts for the free-writing this week were:
- If you had a superpower, what would it be?
- Write a dialogue between any two people, things, or places.
September 13, 2011
RSO Meeting!
Don’t forget, next Monday at 4:00 in the Intersection, we will be having a meeting about becoming an official RSO! Come if you are interested in that kind of thing, if you have a strong opinion about it, or if you just feel like yelling about something! I promise to humor you!
September 12, 2011
The clock winked,
And I winked back.
We continued this all afternoon.
My eyelid is tired.
September 9, 2011
Meeting #2: Handwriting and Identity
Hello there, beautiful people! Don’t miss this Monday’s Queer Writer’s Group meeting, where we will be talking about handwriting and how it relates to identity. Has anyone ever told you that you had “girly” handwriting, or that the way you write doesn’t match your gender? How is left-handedness like queerness—or is it? Come talk (and write!) about it on Monday!
August 29, 2011
The day my dick exploded
[A group poem by the various and sundry members of Queer Writers Group at the University of Louisville. Participants were each asked to contribute a line to the poem, without seeing any of the other lines.]
Fuck bitches, get money
PENS OUT, PAWS UP!
glitter got in my eye
Water rushes in and out.
Smash the gender binary, QUEER NATION!
Stuck in the middle of it all
And they said to me, “Fly away.”
I sank into her eyes like falling into a bed of pillows
and only one will rest, one will fade
I would hate you, if you’d let me.
how dare you think you’d get away with trying to play me
I really want a taxidermied mongoose.
I’m goin to crack under all this pressure!
Then I was sad, because they could not fix it.
I named my vibrator “John Galt.”
August 29, 2011
First Meeting in Review!
This meeting was a really basic “getting to know you” kind of thing, and we did a group poem and a few prompts. I will be setting up a Doodle Poll to find out when people can meet to discuss RSO status, and of course any official announcements will be posted here and on the Facebook page.
Also, we will be asking that anyone who facilitates a meeting do a one or two paragraph write-up of their concept for the group, so that we can post it here. Afterwards, we’ll do a summary post like this, along with the prompts that were included, sources, relevant videos, etc. We’re doing this because it seems like we have a lot of people who want to be involved but can’t physically make it to the meetings, so we’re setting up a kind of “home game.”
The prompts from this week were all from creativewritingprompts.com.
- “A drunk man sits next to you in a bar, thinks you’re his buddy, and starts to confess ‘the truth.’ Write about what ‘the truth’ is.”
- “Write about one of the easiest decisions you’ve ever made in your life.”
- “I deserve a _________.”
- “The clock winked.”
- “Write about a person who does everything ‘by the book.’”
- “Write a fictional news story based on this headline: ‘Elvis clones taking over the world.’”
And if you were at the meeting today and want to share something you wrote, please click this link to SUBMIT! If you want to submit anonymously or don’t have a Tumblr, you can send your submission to queerwritersgroup at gmail dot com. Let us know if you’d like to be anonymous, and we do reserve the right to post trigger warnings on potentially triggering content.
Hope to see you next time!
August 22, 2011
Queer Writer's Group meeting?
I’m going to tentatively schedule our meeting time for the second week of class (i.e. next week) provided we get enough people to fill out this poll. Also, I put the first time slot as noon because I figure most people have class in the morning. If you’re available at times not listed on here or if your schedule is like gender and too complicated for boxes, let us know ;)
August 13, 2011
Welcome!
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