#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 11)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, Bruno Rios, Found Poetry Review, Harry Baker, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Kate Foley, Kim Addonizio, Lagan Press, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Maureen Doallas, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poet Laureate, Poetic Asides, poetry comics, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Safia Elhillo, Sherman Alexie, Tanka Feminism, The City Quill, The Rumpus, Wallace Stevens, Winter Tangerine, women poets

DAY ELEVEN of the best prompts, poems and news from your  #NaPoWriMo/#NPM16/#NaPoMo /#NationalPoetryMonth/#poemaday hashtags.

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Close Description w/ Surprise Turn prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Ode to an Animal prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Soviet Kitsch (movie posters) prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Defensive poem prompt”
Poetry School’s “Found Gun prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Random Article Blackout prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “State of Justice prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Astrological Self-Portrait prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “Being Water prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Constrained Writing prompt”
The City Quill’s “Favorite Greek God prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Favorite Adjectives & Nouns prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Sci-fi Elements prompt”
30dpc’s “Case of the Mondays prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “From the Mirror’s Perspective prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Harry Baker “A Love Poem for Lonely Prime Numbers”
Safia Elhillo “Self-Portriat with Yellow Dress”
Wallace Stevens “The Emperor of Ice Cream”
Kimiko Hahn “Not Nothing”
Sherman Alexie “The Powwow at the End of the World”
Joan Naviyuk Kane “Asymmetry”
Kim Addonizio “Here”

Miscellaneous

A Poetry Comics Discussion (The Rumpus)
A Little Tanka Feminism (Kelly Fineman)
Monday Muse Profile on CT’s Poet Laureate (Maureen Doallas)
Sound Portrait of Bruno Rios (Houston Public Media)

**Poets, if you would like to be featured in 2sDay Poems, have your collection reviewed, guest post in the Poetry Lab or blog on any of the Thoughts on Poetry topics, including Foremother Friday or Small Press Interviews, drop me a line at  bonesparkblog@yahoo.com.

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 17)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, Apparatus Magazine, BOMB magazine, Boston Poetry Slam, craft talks, Drunken Boat, Ed Bok Lee, Karen Marie Christa Minns, Kay Ryan, Kimiko Hahn, Liesl Muller, Matthew Zapruder, Miss Rumphius Effect, Monica Ferrell, Negative Capability Press, pink ink press, Poem a Day, poet interviews, Poetic Asides, Poetry Foundation, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, Sherman Alexie, the language inside, tweetspeak, West Trestle Review, women poets

The best prompts, poems and news from DAY SEVENTEEN of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

West Trestle Review’s “Self Portrait with ____ prompt”
Boston Poetry Slam “Quaint Tech prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Swing Poems “
Negative Capability Press’ “Dare to Bitch prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “Frantically Searching prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Social Media style prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form: Acrostics”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Bits of Whimsy prompt”
The Language Inside’s “Place, TIme, Change IN A YEAR prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Karen Marie Christa Minns| “Winter”
Matthew Zapruder| “Birds of Texas”
Liesl Mueller| “Naming the Animals”
Monica Ferrell| “The Coin of Your Country”
Kay Ryan| “Tenderness and Rot”
Ed Bok Lee| “Several Mountains”
Kimiko Hahn| “Sparrow” (w/ audio)
Sherman Alexie| “The Pow Wow at the End of the World”

Miscellaneous
Speaker in a Future Age: Ed Bok Lee on Poetry, Places and the Death of Tongues
Cooling the Surface, Tending the Cracks: An Interview with Kay Ryan
Interview w/ Vievee Francis at Muzzle
Artists in Conversation: Kimiko Hahn at BOMB

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 16)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Adrian Blevins, AGNI, Black Poets, Books on the Nightstand, Boston Poetry Slam, Cleaver magazine, craft talks, crime poetry, Eric Nelson, Flashbang Writing Studio, found poems, Holocaust Poetry, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Jeremy Freedman, Jynne Martin, macaroni verse, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, native american poetry, Negative Capability Press, Nikki Giovanni, On Being blog, pink ink press, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, Poetry Foundation, Poetry magazine, poetry of witness, poetry prompts, Pooky Poetry, Rita Ann Higgins, Rita Dove, science poems, Sestinas, Sherman Alexie, terzanelles, Theodore Roethke, tweetspeak, W.S. Merwin, women poets

The best prompts, poems and news from DAY SIXTEEN of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

Boston Poetry Slam “Directions for Putting Inanimate Objects to Sleep prompt”
REWIND 52 blog’s “Macaroni verse (dual language) prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Science Poems “
Negative Capability Press’ “Documentary Poems”
Pink Ink Press’ “There’s something misleading about clocks prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Terzanelles”
Flashbang Writing Studio’s “Back and Forth prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form: Sonnets w/ template”
Mslexia “One Sentence poems”
Imaginary Garden w/ Real Toads’ “Visionary Art prompt”
30dpc’s “Fake Commencement poems”
REWIND Pooky Poetry’s “Poems featuring the Opening & Closing of Doors prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Tax Form prompt”
Tweetspeak” “Sestina prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Eric Nelson| “Apostrophe to Apostrophe”
Rita Dove| “Ach, Wien” (w/ audio)
Theodore Roethke| “Elegy for Jane”
Jeremy Freedman| “The Duck Lady”
Nikki Giovanni| “Ego Tripping” (video)
W.S. Merwin| “Thanks”
Rita Ann Higgins| “Be Someone”
Adrian Blevins| “How to Cook a Wolf”
Sherman Alexie| “Steel Anniversary”

Miscellaneous

20 Black Poets You Should Know (and Love) at The Root
Celebrating National Poetry Month w/ Jynne Martin podcast at Books on the Nightstand
Catalog of Crime Poetry at The Five-Two blog
Native American Poetry Sampler at Poetry mag
Holocaust Poetry: The Poetry of Bearing Witness at On Being

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 2)

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#napomo, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30/30 project, Apparatus Magazine, Big Poetry Book Giveaway, Carol Ann Davis, craft essay, Drunk in Midnight Choir, Jessica Piazza, Jumping Into Form, Megan Falley, Miss Rumphius Effect, Mslexia Challenge, Po-Emotions, Poem a Day, Poems I Have Loved, Poetic Asides, Poetically Speaking, poetry challenges, Poetry in Motion, Poetry postcards, poetry prompts, poetry tumblr, Sherman Alexie, Storybird, Tupelo Press, West Trestle Review, Wild Violet, Wislawa Szymborska, writing tips

Bringing you the best of DAY TWO prompts, poems and news #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #2: “Sewing Chair” (Picture prompt from the National Gallery of Art archives)
Mslexia “Coin Sense-idents”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Secrets Prompt”
Poetry in Motion’s “Feeling Lucky”
Megan Falley’s “Stories from Your Childhood”
Apparatus Magazine’s “News Crawl”
Kris Bigalk’s “Peaceful Storm Metaphor”
Storybird “Magic”
30dpc “Dust off the Dictionary”
West Trestle Review “Personification Prompt”
Wild Violet “A is for Ars Poetica”
Drunk in a Midnight Choir “5 Words”
Po-Emotions “Fear”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form-Renga”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Sherman Alexie| “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”
Carol Ann Davis| “Easter Morning With Magic Markers”
Jessica Piazza| “Cafe Terrace at Night”
Wislawa Szymborska| “Metaphysics”
Thomas Sayers Ellis|”All Their Stanzas”

Miscellaneous

Tips to Make Every Word Count in Your Poem
Poetry Magazine Podcast: “Cast Poems in the River and Tell Them You Remember”
Please Excuse This Poem’s “Poets as Teenagers” Series (Dorothea Lasky)
Tupelo Press 30/30 Project
Poetically Speaking: Terra Elan McVoy Talks Emily Dickinson
Sign Up For Poetry Postcards From Silver Star School students

 

 

 

Look Like You Know Your $hit 2014 Poetry as Gifts Guide

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2014 Poetry Collections, a note passed to superman, A Whole New World, Ahsahta Press, Aladdin, Alaska, Alice James Books, Anne Ferry, Apiology with Stigma, Bad NDN, Black Ocean, Carrie Olivia Adams, Claudia Emerson, Clay Matthews, Commonplace Invasions, contraband of hoopoe, Copper Canyon, Dan Vera, Dancing Girl Press, Debt to the Bone-Eating Snotflower, Ewa Chrusciel, Figure Studies, Forty One Jane Doe's, Graywolf Press, Hanging Loose Press, Happenstance, Helena Nelson, holiday gift giving guide, HOT TOPIC, How a Poem Happens, Jo Pitkin, Julie Funderburk, Kelly Andrews, Lavender Ink/Dialogos, Letras Latinas, Look Like You know Your Shit, Louisiana small press, LSU Press, Mad Honey Symposium, Marguerite Guzman Bouvard, Mule-Skinner, NOLA poetry, Omnidawn, Plot and CounterPlot, Poem for Plutocrats, poetheads, Rachel Piercey, Red Hen, Rivers Wanted, Sabotage Reviews, Sally Wen Mao, Salmon Poetry, Sarah Lindsay, Scandlous, sexy christmas elf, Sherman Alexie, southern lit, Southern Messenger Poets, Speaking Wiri Wiri, Split This Rock, Starlight on Water, Steven Scafidi, supernatural, The Cabinetmaker's Window, The Emma Press, The Leviathan of Parsonstown, The Light That Shines Inside Us, The Overhaul, The Title of the Poem, Thoughts to Fold Into Birds, To Whoever Set My Truck on Fire, Unicorn Press, What I've Stolen What I've Earned, women poets

Yes, it is that time of year again, friends….the time of ‘best of’ lists and holiday buying hives. Ok, maybe that’s not you, but you really, really want to impress that super hot poet that lives down the hall or maybe deigns to talk to you in the Starbucks line you happen to keep timing just right so as to consistently run into him/her.

Or maybe, you are married to one of these poethead monsters.  Or gasp! You are one of those word-flingers.

 

Sexy-Christmas-Elf-me can practically guarantee to get you a good snog under the mistletoe, if you will wrap up  a few of these (mostly) 2014 collections.

From AHSAHTA PRESS

Forty-One Jane Doe’s

This is actually a Spring 2013 release that made it into my basket early this year, but boy am I glad that it did.  Combining a print book with a DVD of short films, this combo from  Carrie Olivia Adams (better known as poetry editor for Black Ocean) is definitely a keeper.

Love this tagline:  “A woman knows her body . . . until it is exploded into a multitude of Janes.”

 

from ALICE JAMES

Mad Honey Symposium

Sally Wen Mao‘s May-released debut stunner. Feast your eyes on lines from “Apiology, with Stigma” HERE

I Know! Your eyes are totally blown out of your head.

 

Moving on to 2 Titles from COPPER CANYON  

Debt to the Bone-Eating Snotflower

Sarah Lindsay delves into skeleton-eating worms, sweet potato and squid with brief jaunts to Iraq

Read “The Leviathan of Parsonstown” here

 

 

Sun-Bear  also from Copper Canyon

Matthew Zapruder‘s 4th collection, another zinger from one of Cali’s hottest poets

Check out “Poem for Plutocrats”

 

 

and don’t forget my go-to press DANCING GIRL bringing us…

 

Mule-Skinner by

Kelly Andrews, coeditor of Pretty Owl Poetry/economic journalist, delivering a kick-ass first chapbook plus she loves cats. What’s not to like?

Read a sample poem at the purchase link above.

 

And from (The) EMMA PRESS, one of the cooolest small presses in the UK…

Rivers Wanted

Rachel Piercey’s 2nd pub with EP, but her first full-length pamphlet, bringing every bit of her gobsmacking wit and charm to a head.

Check out the great write-up from Sabotage Reviews here.

from GRAYWOLF PRESS

The Overhaul

Ok, a bit of a cheat.  This is forthcoming Feb. 2015, but I just love the Scottish hell out of Kathleen Jamie and couldn’t help but put this up even without a pre-order button. Why is there no pre-order button?

Oh well, buy this as soon as it’s out.

 

then there is this ball-buster from HANGING LOOSE PRESS

What I’ve Stolen, What I’ve Earned

Sherman Alexie is hands-down the baddest NDN around with multi-genre superpowers, and I basically want to be him when I grow up, only better-looking in a dress, which should be red with imitation feathers.

 

from HAPPENSTANCE  (another small press from across the pond)

Starlight on Water and Plot and Counter-Plot

These pamphlets are actually from 2003 and 2010, but I’ve only just discovered Helena Nelson through performance circles, so bear with me.

Both of these babies rock the cover art and feature marvellous poems.

from LAVENDER INK/DIALOGOS 

The Light That Shines Inside Us

Marguerite Guzman Bouvard‘s poems so good they should have their own shrine. And I am I totally not just saying that because this is like my favorite NOLA based press. Who Dat, Y’all!!

 

from LSU PRESS  (Purple and Gold, Baby)

The Cabinetmaker’s Window from the sexy poet-carpenter who is all over the Southern lit magazines. Love me some Steven Scafidi.

Read “To Whoever Set My Truck on Fire” at How a Poem Happens and see.  See!

Now buy the book and

also snap up

Figure Studies by

Claudia Emerson

which pairs really well with Forty-One Jane Doe’s  from above [top of the list]

 

then again, you can’t really go wrong with most of the Southern Messenger Poets series 

 

 same goes for Ewa Chrusciel, whose latest from OMNIDAWN 

 

contraband of hoopoe has just the right mix of art and ritual to make you want to do research and never stop traveling even if it’s all just in your mind

 

well, that doesn’t really do her justice.  just pick up the book and work your way into her genius.

 

RED HEN also has a stunner with its 2013 Winner of the inaugural Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize

Speaking Wiri Wiri by Dan Vera

is good, good, good stuff

Hear him read here. Funny, charming. Brave experimenter with language.

[Dude, I know it was on Split This Rock’s recommended list from last year, but I just got it…so now I’m telling you it’s good. LOL]

 

from SALMON POETRY

Commonplace Invasions by

Jo Pitkin, is a must-have.  She has been accused of “bewitching” her readers, but in the best possible way. 🙂

Everything out of Salmon Poetry is top-notch.

 

and from UNICORN PRESS

Thoughts to Fold Into Birds by

Julie Funderburk

“grounded in the coastal carolina’s wind, sun, and sea”

ahhhhhhhhhhhh. small press goodness from NC.

 

Also, you’ll look really, really smart if you buy and then read….

 

The Title of the Poem by

Anne Ferry

Seriously, though, this will open up a whole new world. Trust me!!!!

NDNs with Pens

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Adrian C. Louis, Allison Hedge Coke, American Indian, Deborah A Miranda, Ernestine Hayes, Frances Washburn, Greg Sarris, IAIA MFA, James Welch, Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Linda Hogan, Louise Erdrich, Luci Tapahonso, N. Scott Momaday, Native American, NDN writers, NDNs with Pens, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Ofelia Zepeda, Sherman Alexie, Simon J Ortiz, Susan Power

Native American, American Indian, Indigenous, NDN. Many labels have been applied to tribal nations as far flung as Alaska and New Mexico. Once marginalized , many of these groups are now getting a second look with entire university programs devoted to the study of their literature.  As I work on my own project steeped in Tlingit legends, I am reminded of those who came before.  Here is an essential reading list of Native writers:

1. The Way to Rainy Mountain and In the Bear’s House by N. Scott Momaday

2. Love Medicine and Original Fire by Louise Erdrich   [*Buy signed copies direct from Erdrich at Birchbark Books]

3. Skins by Adrian C. Louis

4. Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Silko

5. Men on the Moon and Woven Stone by Simon J. Ortiz

6. Ocean Power:Poems from the Desert and Where Clouds are Formed by Ofelia Zepeda

7. Riding the Earthboy 40 by James Welch

8. Mean Spirit and The Book of Medicines by Linda Hogan

9. One Stick Song and Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie (*anything you pick up by him is bound to be good)

10.  She Had Some Horses and Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo

11. Watermelon Nights by Greg Sarris

12. A Radiant Curve by Luci Tapahonso

13. Roofwalker by Susan Power

14. Bad Indians by Deborah A. Miranda

15. Life Woven with Song by Nora Marks Dauenhauer

16. Blonde Indian by Ernestine Hayes

17. The Sacred White Turkey by Frances Washburn

18.  Dog Road Woman by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

*Find the complete list on Amazon here.*

And for those of you who are interested, the IAIA (Institute of American Indian Arts) now offers an MFA In Creative Writing.  Note that Sherman Alexie and Susan Power are on staff!

Me as Levar

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In honor of Reading Rainbow‘s 30th anniversary (yes, that was this summer), I am playing Levar and dishing out a list of good reads for short story lovers.

If you follow me on Twitter (and you should be following me on Twitter @bonesparkblog), then you already know that my library recently brought in a whooping stack of short story collections.

There were well over a dozen. Some were older, some newer, most were (surprisingly) by females. I diligently waded through this stack to bring you the best of the best. So without further ado, my selections:

“The Devourings”–from Aimee Bender’s The Color Master.

This story tells the tale of a homely woman who finds love with an ogre. After he accidentally devours their children, grief forces her out of their home for a time, but ultimately she returns. Bender has a way of weaving real pain with fairytale settings.  Did I mention that there’s a magical cake involved?

“Bad Boy Number 17”–from Lucia Perillo’s Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain

This story is part of a three-story arc featuring two sisters, one of which suffers from Down’s syndrome. It stands alone as well as a linked narrative. With its Pacific NW setting and the dark edge Perillo brings to it, I am reminded of Sherman Alexie, but without some of the pathos. Interestingly, both Alexie and Perillo are poets.  I think that the lyricism in the prose is what draws me to her work. This is a great new find for me, and I look forward to more from this author.

“Saving Face”–from Megan Mayhew Bergman’s Birds of a Lesser Paradise

This is another writer I was happy to discover. I liked most of the stories in the collection, but I really loved the tension in this one. Here we encounter a women struggling within herself to regain her confidence. She has lost part of her lip to an animal that she had been treating in her vet practice. That pulling, that inner wrestling, is something that every woman experiences at some point in her life. Interesting to see her try to work out what part of her self is tied to her appearance. This one will stay with me.

“Audacious”–from Brock Adams’ Gulf

Reading through this collection, I am reminded of Michael Knight’s Dogfight, which is set roughly in the same region. Adams, of course, gives this space a whole different slant. His work has a noir element that is intriguing. Surprisingly, my favorite story from the book is set in an unnamed Northern town with a frozen lake and cold subway platforms. It’s the story of a pick-pocket and a widower each longing for a deeper relationship.  This was released in 2010. Hopefully, Adams’ will have some new work coming soon.

“What to Do with Henry”–from Tania James’ Aerogrammes

Wow! This one really gripped me. There were so many things going on it in, but it all was woven together so perfectly. Henry, a chimp, comes to Ohio from Sierra Leone along with the newly adopted Neneh, who is the illegitimate daughter of Pearl’s husband.  The three form a strange alliance that is deeply affecting even after Pearl’s death. I won’t spoil the ending for you, but be ready for tears. Haunting.

“Love too Long”–from Barry Hannah’s Long, Last, Happy

Well, what can I say about Hannah? I’d call myself a feminist, but I have to say that I have a soft spot for his overwrought fiction. His work oozes testosterone and not always with a good outcome for him or his protagonists. There is just something about his ballsy-ness that speaks to me. I have been in love with it ever since I first read this story while studying at Hollins (it was originally included in Airships). I would liken it to Neruda, if Neruda wrote fiction and was from the South. It makes me feel what the narrator does when he says, “my head’s burning off and I got a heart about to bust out of my ribs.”  I’m going to want my own copy of this one.

Now if only I can talk those librarians into ordering more poetry.

HOT TOPIC: To Swear or Not to Swear!! Should We Ban Literature that Dares to Say WTF?

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Blasphemy, Captain Underpants, J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, lit mags, Nin Andrews, Notes for a Sermon on the Mount, Profanity, Sherman Alexie, swearing, YA fiction

With apologies to my mother, I really must weigh in on this topic since I am seeing a lot of lit mags put a ban on profanity, or at least strongly discouraging its use. [Read those guidelines.]

And while I am not an advocate of so-called “potty mouth,” I think that refusing such work is short-sighted. And here’s why:  Sherman Alexie, Nin Andrews and J.J. Connolly.

What?  Bear with me. I am getting to the point.

Which is that under some of these editors’ guidelines, we would not have gotten to enjoy some really goddamn good stuff.

Let’s take Alexie’s short story Cry, Cry, Cry from Blasphemy as an example.  Without all those explicatives (you can count them if you want) the story just doesn’t work.  And by not work, I mean that we would not get the same taste for Junior and his cousin’s world without them.  They are, therefore, absolutely essential to the story.

Such is the case for the body of poet Nin Andrews’ work.  I mean she practically owns the word “pussy”.  [Yes, I did get the irony in that statement.] Who amongst us could live without the poem Notes for a Sermon on the Mount which begins:  “1. Pussies are not gods.”

Classy.  You’ll find it in The Best American Poetry 2001.

I don’t think I’ve looked at the world in quite the same way since I read that poem. And neither would I have gotten my hands on J.J. Connolly’s book if some had their way.

Layer Cake (WAY better than the movie) could have been blocked by the publishing house.  Publishers says that they are just as tried of all the fuck, fuck, fucks as the lit mags.

Well, I am sorry, all you shit-phobes.  Despite the frequent use of the f word, Layer Cake is very skillfully written and the profanity is actually necessary to the narrator’s characterization.

Without it, the book would fall flat.  It would be like trying to cut up Pulp Fiction to make it G-rated. And who the hell wants to see thatt? Not me! Give me the cussin’ in all of its full glory. If we can tolerate the language in film, why not in literature?  Are we too good for ourselves?  Christ!

Now, don’t get me wrong!  I am not saying that this shit is appropriate for young audiences.  I am against the copious use of such language in YA literature.

I hear from this researcher that it is more of a problem than I thought. Just because “potty mouth” is a part of teen/tween culture doesn’t mean that I have to support it.

Neither am I saying ban a whole book for one or two words.  Come on. You’re afraid of Captain Underpants. Really?  My kids love those books.

But kid-lit and YA aside, if you are an adult writing for other adults, who am I to say that your work doesn’t demand profanity in terms of character or setting or whatever.

What I do want is for you to keep craftsmanship in mind (as always).  Profanity really is sometimes just the right word.  Abso-fucking-lutely.

Maybe you don’t feel that way.  These are all my opinions. I prefer to have some and share. Let me know what you think. Comments welcome.