I just finished putting up a collage of paintings, poets, and other assorted things/people that inspire me. And where did I put this collage? On the wall right behind my computer screen. And what images did I put up? Here's the list:
Papa Smurf
Rilke
A painting by Kasmir Malevich
Frida Kahlo
Rita Dove
A picture of 3 braceros
Lorca
Cyndi Lauper
Two paintings by Tino Rodriguez
Robert Hayden
A Mexifornia driver license for an "illegal" alien
Through out the year I will be adding more images to my collage. I love to look at these images while I write. They're very comforting. Correction: the Mexifornia license is not comforting, but it does remind me of one of the reasons I write. Also, when I get frustrated at my lack of progress I will stare at one image until my mind calms down. Ain't I cool?
I'm sure a lot of other writers have certain images near their writing spaces to inspire them. I wonder if Rebecca Loudon has a collage of muses near her writing space? Do you?
About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
5 comments:
Be still my heart!
Yes.
A child's tin oven circa 1957 with Sylvia Plath's picture taped to it.
Jiminy cricket, I love this woman.
Hi Eduardo: it's an old shrine, but it still works for me: here
hi eduardo!
for me it's saint michael the archangel.
Um, I've got a faux pewter bobblehead softball trophy from the minisox team I coached a couple years back. Does that count?
Glad you made it safely to Illinois, but we miss our Arizona poets!
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