#uut

I know it's been like, months since you asked but I've been thinking about it lately.

I'm going to say it right now: THIS IS NOT CANNON to my au. But I had fun designing her. Here she is ^^ !

(Headcannons further down)

He's a lil comic as a bonus:

And there is the sketches I did:

If I end up doing something with her I'll probably work a bit more on this design.

But as a little design exercice this was fun.

She has the top of spamton's hair, Tenna's antennas and lack of eyes, and her mouth is a mix between the two (she can close it !)

He outfit is inspired a bit by 90's outfits for business women I've seen in old adds.

She's a girl because Tenna and Spam are so girl dads idk.

Coming to AO3 July 1st: Oswin Fitzroy’s Utterly Unexplainable Things

Recommended Books 2017

Hi Uuts,

Surrealism continues to show itself resilient, a sustaining philosophy in these dark times. Interest among poets, readers, and cultural critics continues to grow. The history of surrealism seems to have a new moment in the spotlight. As we approach its 100th anniversary, the movement can be viewed as historically distant enough, perhaps, that it has a somewhat evolved ethos, a nostalgia factor—or is less threatening in terms of the anxiety of influence—such that we are ready to revisit and reclaim our ancestors in revolutionary poetic thought. These titles are a testament to that healthy interest.

Nouveau's Midnight Sun: Transcriptions from Golgonooza and Beyond. Ed. John Thomas Allen.

Surrealist Poetry: An Anthology. Ed. William Bohn. It is a rare thing for an anthology of surrealism to focus exclusively on poetry. This is only the third one I know of, and the one with the most breadth, since Michael Benedickt’s 1974 The Poetry of Surrealism.

The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire: Bilingual Edition. Aimé Césaire. Trans. A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman. Exciting! I love Césaire. To have all his work in one volume is simply remarkable.

One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern. R. Howard Bloch. You need some history to contextual your surrealism.

The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington.  Leonora Carrington.

Selected Poems: 1962-1985. Clark Coolidge. Many of Coolidge’s works are hard to find, so this hefty volume makes the scope of his work accessible to a wider audience. In a gray area between surrealism and language poetry, Coolidge always surprises and inspires.

Hello friends.

It’s been a while, it seems. A year ago I took a full time academic position and moved across the country. Eighteen months before that finished my degree and moved to another town. The growth and adjustment curves from these new jobs and places made running this site challenging, so things have been streamlined, minimal, especially over the last year.

But I think things are changing for the better now, and I want to re-open the multiple lines of inquiry and poetic praxis that this site once had. There’s a lot I want to say by way of summing up and turning the corner, but I limit myself to the highlights: 

This site remains one of the best things in my life. Even though the stress of a new job unexpectedly paralyzed my creative energy, and even though I briefly considered whether I was forced to ask myself whether it was time to close things down, I concluded there’s nothing that can take its place. So I’m re-committing myself to it, to finding time for it. I can and I will. (The key will be keeping it going after the summer--if you know the secret please share!)

Due to my lack of activity, submissions haver tapered off a bit, and fewer  new poets are submitting. But discovering new poets is the best part of this project! So please consider submitting your weirdest, most transcendent work, so I can meet you. (And I pledge to keep my prompts and portfolio pages more updated, so frequent submitters are given the credit they deserve).

I’ve resumed research into surrealism. Writing my dissertation (while simultaneously running this site) from 2012-2015 was the happiest time of my life. Current activities include reading Polizzoti’s biography of Breton, more attentively studying the poetry of first generation surrealists, and building my collection of surrealist poetry (thanks in large part to Black Widow Press). I’m also working on a writing project that I hope will make surrealist poetry more accessible to students, poets, and the casual reader. (More on that another time.)

Exciting news! Some of my poems from this site are coming out in book form later this year. Announcement forthcoming.

I live in the Portland area now, and I am trying to make new friends and network with poets and surrealists. If you live in Oregon and would like to meet, or possibly connect for a reading or writing group, email me! ([email protected]).

Finally, let me throw some gas on the flames by saying that the surrealism’s objective to transform life remains as relevant and urgent as ever! Just because capitalism, superstition, fake news, cognitive bias, censorship, nationalism, loneliness, and despair seem to be gaining ground doesn’t diminish the vitality of poetry and the human spirit. 

While surrealism is just one of many important forms of resistance and vehicles for liberation, it is a critical one because it goes to the root of human consciousness and addresses the human race’s collective failure of imagination. Without it, political and moral progress isn’t complete. 

So continue the fight. Press on, organize, participate, in all the forms that takes given your individual abilities and resources, and your local and global contexts.

And when your friends make cynical comments or seem to be getting to comfortable or bored, ask them, Will You Join the Surrealist Revolution or Stay At Home Outraged At Everything?

It’s not a community in the formal sense. I take submissions. Those are the different poets you are seeing. 

I used to take submissions through Tumblr, but it was too messy, so I switched to email submissions only.

However, since then, submissions by new poets have been a bit low. SO I’m going to reopen submissions through the Tumblr dashboard and see how it goes.  Update: Fixed it somehow! Go to the submit page.

I was curious to see if the names of my characters were any real people and welp- there’s this guy.

Which lead me to create the sweetest headcanon for any of my characters ever and I had to share it-

Wilson’s (my character, not the cartoonist) grandfather was an American soldier in WWII, who fell in love with a Scottish nurse, and when the war ended he moved to Scotland to be with her, bringing the comics with him. His passed the comics down to his son, Wilson’s father, who then passed them down to Wilson.

And when he changed his name- he chose the name of the comic book artist who wrote the comics that made him feel masculine growing up.