Sitting Down in a Virtual Swamp With Terri Witek
Terri Witek's poem "Another Counsel of Despair" is available in Saw Palm 11.
What’s your connection to Florida? What most compels you about America’s Australia?
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Tell us a little about your piece in Saw Palm. What inspired it?
excavating the velvety drag of gender sadness down to its cold, old adamantine core
What do you hope readers come away from your work thinking or feeling?
NO I WON'T
Do you have a writing routine? Describe your writing process.
dark (pre-dawn house hum) coffee
What writing advice has stayed with you?
Style is a matter of one's limitations (Mark Strand)
What is the most surprising piece of writing you’ve come across recently?
Urayoan Noel's BUZZING HEMISPHERE
Is there a certain piece of writing you find yourself turning to again and again?
Clarice Lispector's AGUA VIVA
The “Florida Man” Twitter account curates news headlines of bizarre domestic incidents involving state residents, such as “Florida Man Fights to Keep Pizza-Loving Alligator.” If you had to write a Florida Man-style headline about yourself, what would it be?
"Florida Woman Turns Tree During Hurricane"
Where can we find out more about you? Social media, website?
terriwitek.com
Stetson's Low-Residency MFA of the Americas
What’s your connection to Florida? What most compels you about America’s Australia?
gold-blue gold-blue gold-blue gold-blue----------------------
Tell us a little about your piece in Saw Palm. What inspired it?
excavating the velvety drag of gender sadness down to its cold, old adamantine core
What do you hope readers come away from your work thinking or feeling?
NO I WON'T
Do you have a writing routine? Describe your writing process.
dark (pre-dawn house hum) coffee
What writing advice has stayed with you?
Style is a matter of one's limitations (Mark Strand)
What is the most surprising piece of writing you’ve come across recently?
Urayoan Noel's BUZZING HEMISPHERE
Is there a certain piece of writing you find yourself turning to again and again?
Clarice Lispector's AGUA VIVA
The “Florida Man” Twitter account curates news headlines of bizarre domestic incidents involving state residents, such as “Florida Man Fights to Keep Pizza-Loving Alligator.” If you had to write a Florida Man-style headline about yourself, what would it be?
"Florida Woman Turns Tree During Hurricane"
Where can we find out more about you? Social media, website?
terriwitek.com
Stetson's Low-Residency MFA of the Americas
Terri Witek's most recent book of poems is Body Switch (Orchises Press, 2016). She teaches poetry and poetics at Stetson University and with Cyriaco Lopes offers Poetry in the Expanded Field in Stetson’s low-residency MFA of the Americas. They also run “The Fernando Pessoa Game” during the Disquiet International Literary Program in Portugal.
