Autodidactpoet

Autodidact: (n) a self-taught person. Poet: (n) a person who writes poetry. Autodidactpoet: (n) A blog full of thoughts from a self-taught writer.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Hands

This poem came from a prompt from louderarts.com, and the prompt was written by Marty McConnell--a spoken word artist I really admire. Here ...

I wear myself differently now

“Pretty is as pretty does,” my grandmother said, and I learned to be the girl who does pretty and was pretty and did pretty well in everythi...

Friday, October 8, 2010

We ain't from around those parts

I recently found this saved on my computer. I wrote it last December--it made me laugh, so I figured it was worth sharing. We (my mom, dad...

Saturday, September 25, 2010

On being "okay"

I think a lot, talk a lot, and write a lot about connection, about words, about language, and the spaces between the connections, words, and...

Saturday, September 18, 2010

The psychology and me dilemma

I find that I keep coming up against a dilemma: do I fit in psychology? Do I want to fit in psychology? If so, where do I fit? I will thi...

"Cool" at last?

So, I was asked by one of my readers to discuss how I came up with the name for my blog. I just read that statement again. Did I almost foo...

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Poem: Healing

I have all these words in my head right now that I can’t write. All these thoughts and stories and images that are just unable to be said. ...

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Autodidactpoet: "My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible shadow that falls between people, the veil of indifference to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight." Eudora Welty

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