#experimentalwriting

Let me watch artists on stage Like ants who live to create Improvising chords through their third eye

I want to lap up every ounce of emotion emitted

I yearn to be bathed in sound and light Drown me in strobe lights and 808s Cover me in green and pink and white and black

I crave the feeling of drums in my chest A throbbing baseline down my spine

Finding an EMPTY SPACE is my graduation project!

Whether you like it or not; everything changes and the world around us is chaotic, weird, and incomprehensible. Yet, here we are! All breathing, reading Pinterest captions, and sometimes even typing behind typewriters.

Writing on a typewriter allowed me to create visual compositions in a completely different manner than I would on a computer. Other than being sensitive to mistakes and being time-expensive, the typewriter offers a grid where creation might be limited but therefore feels limitless.

You type it, you see it, and it’s there on paper. It is the sounds of the keys, the rolling of the paper, and the rewinding of the sentence. The way you can softly press or SMASH IT IN.

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within review by Kaja Popko

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within explores the life of a Beat writer who was arguably the grittiest and most bedeviling of the group. Despite his association with punk and grunge, Burroughs's work was lyrically plaintive and his voice provided a window to his ineffable sadness. The documentary features interviews with Burroughs and his admirers, but they frustratingly only alight on his literary significance when speaking in terms of personal influence. Leyser attempts to equate Burroughs's gun fetishism with Hunter S. Thompson's recklessness, but Burroughs's most accomplished fiction was the boiling run-off of his inner-demon-induced sweat. Burroughs epitomized the 20th-century ideal of the over-educated libertine and forever changed the conversation about sexual orientation, but his last boyfriend recounts an evening where he confessed his love, only to be laughingly dismissed. A Man Within persuasively argues that Burroughs's most dangerous addiction might have been the refusal of love.

Hello dear

My newest acquisition

My sweet friend

You look big and strong and like you have a story to tell

Take me on an adventure in between your marvelous pages

Once upon a time, a girl loved to read. Once upon a time, a girl had an addiction. Once upon a time, she acquired many a book, had to build many a shelf for her many of friends.

Where will you take me, book?

Will you take me to distant verdant isles, with soft citrus breezes?

Will you take me to a dark musty room, pregnant with silence and secrets begging to be told?

Or will you take me to an old man’s room, hunched in front of his desk, writing with his crooked fingers a story that he wants the world to know...?

We are currently open for submissions! Taking everything!- poetry, prose, non-fic, fic, essays, visual and audio works, digital based texts, experimental texts. Marginalised folx are given priority! 

We want you! It is completely free and we work as a means for providing young budding writers and artists with a platform to publish work and offer critical feedback. We are not-for profit and independent publication platform - run by young people who cannot afford to pay you (yet!) 

Friday, Oct 6th, 2017 @ 7PM, Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Join Next Poetix as we welcome Diana Arterian, Gabrielle Civil, Sawako Nakayasu, and Chaun Webster to the MCAD mic. RSVP HERE.