THAT WHICH I SHOULD HAVE DONE I DID NOT DO November 30, 2008: "already i missed not working and felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of everyday that is wasted in your life..." (more...) by Olena Kalytiak Davis

POETRY (IN MY LIFE) THIS WEEK November 24, 2008: my god, there was actually a lot of poetry in my (new) house this week! (no, i'm not talking about my shelves again, and, no, nothing got written, but why is everything always about stupid that?!) i mean, poems (not mine!) were read aloud! (more...) by Olena Kalytiak Davis

ALASKARNALITY November 12, 2008: now that we are all done with the important business of sending sarah back home and moving into my new house (!) (um, revise that clause accordingly), i am officially ready to honor my contract with the poetry foundation by bringing things back down (or is it up?) to hank moody style solipsism and, if the opportunity presents itself, POETRY. [...] by Olena Kalytiak Davis

FRANKENSTEIN’S GRANDMOTHER October 26, 2008: um, that IS right side up. It's from a pretty amazing installation by someone named Matthew Buckingham that I was fortunate enough to stumble upon (and into) at the Henry in Seattle a few months ago. (more...) by Olena Kalytiak Davis

THIS MAN ALSO KNEW HOW TO SIT AT A KITCHEN TABLE October 21, 2008: However, this: "The simplest way I have found to make clear my own sense of writing...is to use the analogy of driving. The road, as it were, is creating itself MOMENTLY in one's attention to it, there, visibly, in front of the car. There is no reason this should go on forever, and if one does so assume it, it very often disappears all too [...] by Olena Kalytiak Davis

AS MOTHER SAID OVER MY NINE YEAR OLD HEAD October 19, 2008: "many, if not most, children exhibit an early talent for art or science, even intellection; but we can never predict the one whose youthful giftedness will blossom not into a pastime, but a driving need, the kind that determines the course of one's life...in creative work, the driving need occurs when the talent is exercised, the possessor of it [...] by Olena Kalytiak Davis

LEAN DOWN YOUR HEART TO HEAR or AL QUE QUIERE (upside down exclamation mark) October 12, 2008: (i'm back and, momentarily, no longer mad nor sad at anyone. thanks, some of you, for the non-posted/able comments. as i already wrote one non-public-commenter, my posterior actually isn't that great, but, my negative capability really IS stunning.) so, having posted ass, i now reassess the correct/necessary use of this forum. in some ways, [...] by Olena Kalytiak Davis

O LITERATI, GET UP! September 29, 2008: (more...) by Olena Kalytiak Davis

ARE POETS BAD MOTHERFUCKERS????????? September 26, 2008: wow and well--and hey forrest and travis--i see that while i have been in fucking TRIAL and trying to buy a fucking HOUSE and practicing spelling lists (SYNAGOGUE) and reading (and suffering from) INDIGNATION with (not from/toward) my CHILDREN --and, yes, Mr. Knott, despite my current lack of poetry um, PRODUCT, i actually do FEEL that i [...] by Olena Kalytiak Davis

OVERCOHERENT September 18, 2008: Let V be a mixed characteristic complete discrete valuation ring, k its residual field, P a proper smooth formal scheme over V, P its special fiber, T a divisor of P, U:=Psetminus T, Y a smooth closed subscheme of U. We prove that the category of overconvergent F-isocrystals on Y is equivalent to the category of overcoherent F-isocrystals on Y. [...] by Olena Kalytiak Davis