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Mar 28, 20241 min read
Lifting Up the Log #9: moon jelly half evaporated on the sand by Dylan Davies
How did you come up with the title? I wanted something longer that embeds you into the scene and what I have seen before the poem begins....
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Feb 23, 20241 min read
Lifting Up the Log #8: Treachery by MJ Malleck
How did you come up with the title? I was thinking about an unreliable narrator and all the stories I tell my kids about when they were...
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Dec 22, 20232 min read
Lifting Up the Log #7: What do you call this world? by Laura Titzer
How did you come up with the title? The title was actually where the idea for the poem derived. During a specific meditation practice...
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Feb 24, 20232 min read
Lifting Up the Log #6: "A Splitting Open" by Alaina Scarano
How did you come up with the title? It came to me as I thought of the parallels between birth and sexual intercourse, between being a...
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Oct 28, 20221 min read
Lifting Up the Log #5: "moon jelly half evaporated on the sand" by Dylan Davies
How did you come up with the title? I wanted something longer that embeds you into the scene and what I have seen before the poem...
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Sep 30, 20221 min read
Lifting Up the Log #4: "Slugged" by Annie Cowell
How did you come up with the title? It's a pun, based on the idea of the slug pulling the winning punch. What can you tell us about the...
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Aug 26, 20222 min read
Lifting Up the Log #3: "As Fast as She Can" by Janna Miller
How did you come up with the title? I really struggled with titling this one. After ten odd assortments of random words, these kind of...
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Jul 29, 20222 min read
Lifting Up the Log #2: "Mapping beneath" by Rebecca Dempsey
How did you come up with the title? The title (and poem) was inspired by a satellite image of tunnels of the Nullarbor Plain in...
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Jun 24, 20222 min read
Lifting Up the Log #1: "Caterpillar" by Jean Velasco
How did you come up with the title? There's nothing obtuse about this title (I hope!). It's the image I saw and the image I've tried to...
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