i have been listening and tinkering all of these good ideas into a new version

thinking about a title, i'd be very plain



: short forms



to the point, shapely and kinda catchy (but then i always did go for the offbeat musics ;=)) 
very very happy to hear all suggestions . thanks for tossing that ball about Eric . . i bet we can up with something better than either you or i are suggesting at the moment

i reckon we have a week . . i've nudged Lydia Davis and am still hopeful of hearing back from her, which would be a start

has anybody got a contact handy for Russell Edson? I like the suggestion of James Tate . . . what about Sherman Alexie / / ? (i guess he'll just cost the earth)  .  Jamaica Kincaid??


i'd like to see a panel on Richard Brautigan; a panel on Lydia Davis; a panel on the prose-poem; a panel on hypertexts; a panel on texting and tweeting and all of that; a panel on journal entry / diary entry / blog entry; a panel on song and narrative ballad traditions (maybe) - and something on the blues and country song slice of life condensed narrative  -  and or on Bob Dylan even . . .; a panel on the contemporary fable; a panel on Lyn Hejinian (maybe); a panel on the new narrative (maybe); a panel on folk tales (maybe); a panel on myths of origin (maybe); a panel on Borges (maybe) . . . 

and 



looking forwards

cris



On Jan 31, 2012, at 10:31 PM, Goodman, Eric wrote:

> I apologize for joining this conversation so late.   Been an odd day.
> 
> I like this, and agree with some of the other responses, including the
> notion that a book would come out of it, and perhaps we could reference,
> Rainbow Darkness and the Cook Conference as a sort of precedent.
> 
> We could, perhaps, try to secure the appearance of one or two "names"
> between now and the time we'd need this flyer, and could add them.  Or
> simply make some nod to invited guests that will indicate the ambitions of
> the conference.
> 
> Might be good to have a dedicated email address for the conference?   And
> a jazzy title?   Short Forms Merging?   Short Forms Mating, Matey?
> 
> On 1/31/12 3:42 PM, "Schloss, David Mr." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> Dear cris,
>> 
>> at first blast, I like this a lot--informative and chatty. The tone seems
>> inviting, just right. Crunchy?
>> 
>> Granola
>> 
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Miami University Creative Writing Faculty
>> [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of cris cheek [[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:17 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: short form (very very early draft for some kind of flier)
>> 
>> We all know that prose can be poetic and poetry can be prosaic; but
>> between seemingly unassailable monoliths of Fiction and Poetry, a common
>> land of hybrid creative writing forms, less easy to classify, are
>> proliferating and blooming. Such writing, often, but not always, takes
>> short form.
>> 
>> Traditions that might be identified within such a frame, including the
>> prose poem; the fable; the anecdote; the pensée and the philosophical
>> fragment, appear increasingly lively. Joined with sudden fiction, flash
>> fictions, the creative non-fiction essay and monikers such as the short
>> short perhaps a trend becomes apparent. Toss the popularity of digitally
>> texted and tweeted narratives, the creative use of status updates, the
>> billboard, the scrolling LED and art-neon into that brew and we think a
>> field sufficiently energetic emerges that is ripe to be celebrated and
>> discussed, perhaps even theorized and hotly contested.
>> 
>> The Creative Writing cohort at Miami University, Ohio plans to host just
>> such a celebration / symposium in the Fall of 2013. We expect to be
>> inundated with proposals and suggestions as to how the emergence of short
>> form, as a field of contemporary and historical creative writing
>> practices, can begin to be mapped and taught.
>> 
>> Please help us to do so by making a proposal of your own: proposals will
>> be accepted until November 30th 2012.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> blah blah . okay i know my prose is impossibly crunchy
>> 
>> 
>> just an early attempt at something bordering on a definition
>> 
>> please do feel encouraged to shred it and rescript it et cetera
>> 
>> 
>> btw . . i wrote to Lydia Davis last weekend but have yet to hear back
>> from her. Fingers crossed .
>> 
>> 
>> looking forwards,
>> 
>> 
>> cris