{"id":4733,"date":"2014-07-30T15:21:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T19:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2023-12-06T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T20:52:34","slug":"dense-disconcerting-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/dense-disconcerting-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"Dense, Disconcerting Bite"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Faded<\/a>That I could have written it shorter had I only more time has been attributed to great writers from Montaigne to Mark Twain. Those multiple attributions may be the best testament to the statement\u2019s truth. It is hard to write “good short.” Unless you\u2019re Writer-in-Residence Diane Seuss<\/strong> \u201978<\/strong>, winner of Indiana Review<\/em>\u2019s 2013 1\/2K Prize for her prose poem “Wal-Mart Parking Lot,” which was published in IR<\/em>\u2019s Summer 2014 issue.<\/p>\n

More good news: IR<\/em> editor Peter Kispert interviewed Di about various prize-related matters, including which actual Wal-Mart inspired her, how she approached making her poem, and the challenges and triumphs of the compressed form. You can read that interview<\/strong> online. In the 1\/2K, word count cannot exceed 500 and all genres are open–albeit constrained. Di is spending part of the summer at Hedgebrook on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. Hedgebrook is a retreat for women writers. “If you receive the residency you get your own little cottage (overlooking Mt. Rainier and the Sound), solitude, and meals out of their organic garden,” wrote Di. “I\u2019m not sure how to receive such a gift, but I\u2019m working on it.”<\/p>\n

In other news, The Missouri Review<\/em> published Di\u2019s poem “Still-Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (after Rembrandt)<\/strong><\/a>,” one of a series that arose from Di\u2019s interest in still life painting. “What I discovered about still lives is that they are not still,” Di said, “or their stillness draws out our projections like a poultice lures poison.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That I could have written it shorter had I only more time has been attributed to great writers from Montaigne to Mark Twain. Those multiple attributions may be the best testament to the statement\u2019s truth. 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Those multiple attributions may be the best testament to the statement\u2019s truth. It is hard to write “good short.” Unless you\u2019re Writer-in-Residence <strong>Diane Seuss<\/strong> <strong>\u201978<\/strong>, winner of <em>Indiana Review<\/em>\u2019s 2013 1\/2K Prize for her prose poem “Wal-Mart Parking Lot,” which was published in <em>IR<\/em>\u2019s Summer 2014 issue.<\/p>\n<p>More good news: <em>IR<\/em> editor Peter Kispert interviewed Di about various prize-related matters, including which actual Wal-Mart inspired her, how she approached making her poem, and the challenges and triumphs of the compressed form. You can read that <strong>interview<\/strong> online. In the 1\/2K, word count cannot exceed 500 and all genres are open–albeit constrained. Di is spending part of the summer at Hedgebrook on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. Hedgebrook is a retreat for women writers. “If you receive the residency you get your own little cottage (overlooking Mt. Rainier and the Sound), solitude, and meals out of their organic garden,” wrote Di. “I\u2019m not sure how to receive such a gift, but I\u2019m working on it.”<\/p>\n<p>In other news, <em>The Missouri Review<\/em> published Di\u2019s poem “<a href=\"http:\/\/www.missourireview.com\/archives\/diane-seuss-still-life-with-two-dead-peacocks-and-a-girl-after-rembrandt\/\"><strong>Still-Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (after Rembrandt)<\/strong><\/a>,” one of a series that arose from Di\u2019s interest in still life painting. “What I discovered about still lives is that they are not still,” Di said, “or their stillness draws out our projections like a poultice lures poison.”<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21302,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions\/21302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}