Monday, February 09, 2009

This Week in Creativity

This past weekend, operating under the auspices of the nearly ungoogleable miami poetry collective, I was amongst a group of many literature-minded friends who assembled a journal of our own work to give away (to sell for one cent) at a party in honor of local poet and professor to most of us, Denise Duhamel, who is just publishing her most recent book. Somehow, the drawing of the cover fell to me. I made several drafts, but this is the one we finally ended up with (if you want to read, like, the journal itself, let me know and I'll see what I can do):

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

a reference to Jean Paul Richter?

2/09/2009 3:51 PM  
Blogger Pete said...

A preliminary search of Google and Wikipedia still leave me scratching my head as to what that reference might be.

2/09/2009 4:03 PM  
Blogger nate said...

So how many journals did you sell?

2/09/2009 10:39 PM  
Blogger Jack said...

I think the ship represents society, and the guy rowing the lifeboat is the solitary poet, guiding the survivors to safety with the force of his moral vision, represented by the oars.

All the other people in the lifeboat are also poets, except they weren't able to secure steady employment.

2/10/2009 8:13 AM  
Blogger Pete said...

Two bits worth.

2/10/2009 1:24 PM  

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