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My Interests

Friends (in 48109 and 49707), romance languages, Europe, women's lit, Ann Arbor, shaman drum, RC poetry, bassoon/cello duets (of course!), Lake Huron, Halloween, autumn (esp. when accompanied by hot cocoa and faux-burberry plaid blankets), animated shorts, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, gofugyourself.typepad.com, many women, Alpena, New York City, halloween, homemade cookies, electric blankets, satire, the 50s, British limousines, fake accents, fur trim, shag carpeting.

I'd like to meet:

My friends. Frequently.
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Music:

tegan and sara, rilo kiley, imogen heap, bob dylan, ani d, elliott smith, beck, fiona apple, joni mitchell, paul mccartney, jenny lewis, kaki king

Movies:

American Beauty, Amelie, The Door in the Floor, Annie Hall, Mean Girls, Frida, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes of the Heart

Television:

Sex and the City, ANTM, Project Runway, Seinfeld, Friends, Best Week Ever, SNL, Curb Your Enthusiasm

Books:

Joyce Carol Oates, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, Sylvia Plath, John Donne, Alice Notley, Robert Creeley, Frank O'Hara, Faye Kicknosway, Jeff Eugenides, Dave Eggars, Emily Dickinson, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Patrick O'Keefe, Crimes of the Heart, The Heidi Chronicles

Heroes:

Princess Peach.

My Blog

monday

it was a beautiful day and i got absolutely no work done.just as it should be, i suppose.had an interview and a staff meeting. both went well, i think. ate junk food: pizza, swedish fish.painted my na...
Posted by amy on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:28:00 PST

monday

Vignettes from Benita’s interview 1-6

From the Guava Tree The heat hung in the air, swollen with moringa and papaya. Benita heard her mother’s footsteps grow fainter, imagined her inky black hair spilling on the pillow. She...
Posted by amy on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:08:00 PST

taking a break

i’m taking a break right now. from my paper that is so...bad.i mean, it’s for my thesis writing class. we have to turn in an introduction to our thesis. but usually the introduction is wri...
Posted by amy on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:23:00 PST

Untouched and Burning

the city we could have lovedmelts around the edgesin summerold men ride bicycleschildren eat frozen grapespopping them into theirhot round mouthsthe newspapers are neatly stackedand untouchedthere is ...
Posted by amy on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:49:00 PST

room to lease

he chose metal over mei tell her from behind my coffeei lost out to steel and bacteriaor rust or some chemicalnothing poetic.it’s not the night air up thereor the blue moon, the skinny womenthe ...
Posted by amy on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:30:00 PST

brown trout festival (a poem, sorry)

i grope at the thin clear fishing line connected to a tire, a plastic bagor nothing, just the same old wound bleeding into the river where sly trout swim in shadow...
Posted by amy on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:20:00 PST

this city i love you in

this city i love you inis abandoned, orit is getting therethe baguettes are flakingand the houses are iron and grayin this rainthe puddles evaporate andvanish, like the little dogsand their ownerswe s...
Posted by amy on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:19:00 PST

you and your harpoon

you and your harpoonhave done deeds of wickednessstrapped to your canoeyour big brown boat with the perfect square sailsthere are dead seals off your bowdead gulls in the bayand now the blubber of wha...
Posted by amy on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:13:00 PST

on the way to st. pete’s

but i want to see iti tell her, pulling down the pane of glassthat separates us more than this dermisthis shameful, freckled thingi will shed in five daysshe points to the ocean, saysthat hotel right ...
Posted by amy on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:10:00 PST