Oh, joy! I went back into my RSS feeds, in order to come up to speed for blogging, and found this post from Cal Newport about How Novelists Get Work Done. Newport is — to my great interest — always concerned not just with productivity, but especially deep productivity. He thinks a lot about how…
Tag: poetry
Deep Work
Cal Newport has recently posted a technique for setting up what he calls “deep work” sessions, a technique that seems very useful indeed. His picture of how he uses the technique isn’t very illuminating, though, at least to me; here’s my translation: He’s got a list of things he wants to work on. (In his…
Poetry for Brigid! Happy Imbolc!
In honor of Bríd, the goddess of poetry, smithcraft, and healing, years ago Oak started a web-poetry-slam; we’d all of us, who had blogs, post a Poem for Brigid. It went viral, and now every year across the web on February 1st there are poems posted by people who never knew the beginning of the…
Kestrel Updates the Archives
Kestrel just updated the archives, and now my poem “Pythia Invents Ekphrasis” is readable on-line!