This week's creative writing club activity was taken from an exercise developed by Christian Bök called Impromptu #16, which was hosted by The Found Poetry Review during a National Poetry Month activity in 2016, and which instructed us about how to create a field of stars based on a found text.
While Bök's exercise suggested using source material from an antiquarian astronomy text, in the interest of time (club members only meet for one hour each week), we used material from Astronomy Books Online. Follow the link above if you want to read more about how the star fields were made or just look at the amazing creations that follow! Don't you wish you were part of it?
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Black Holes in Higher Dimensions
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Astrophysics in 2005
We bring you,∞ as
usual,∞ the Sun
and Moon and stars,∞ plus
some galaxies and a new section on astrobiology.≠ Some highlights are short (the newly identified class of gamma-ray
bursts,∞ and the
Deep Impact on Comet 9P/ Tempel 1),∞ some
long (the age of the universe,∞ which
will be found to have the Earth at its center),∞ and a few metonymic,∞ for instance the term "down-sizing" to describe the
evolution of star formation rates with redshift.≠
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
a matter of time
i don't usually start with a concept i start
with minutia i get lost in the momentary
ticktock ticktock ticktock the small talk of daydreaming
a stream of conscientious objection to order
i am on the border of course
off course
and so wandering i wish on stars
chase cars and tails (i was a dog in another life)
i smell the world the scent of sentient so so
all yes and maybe no
is that who i think it is you there
who goes where
with minutia i get lost in the momentary
ticktock ticktock ticktock the small talk of daydreaming
a stream of conscientious objection to order
i am on the border of course
off course
and so wandering i wish on stars
chase cars and tails (i was a dog in another life)
i smell the world the scent of sentient so so
all yes and maybe no
is that who i think it is you there
who goes where
Time in this world
Time
If a person was time, who would it be?
Prophets and civilizations all played the game of time.
All the time wasted on people with no brains.
Hours and minutes all progress forward.
Time and time again we cry.
What never ends nor stops, time is all it takes to go back.
Moving forward and going back are a matter of change.
Forward into time, forward into growth.
But times does comeback, maybe in people or in places.
Going back in time is not necessarily staying in the past.
As time never goes back but people learn and change based on that.
Time heals and time brings the past back.
The future is the past, because as time moves forward all the pain of the past arrives.
Time between the stars is time that never lasts.
Time never stops and can always go back, just by the change of course.
Only the Sun and Moon can explain.
Once the Earth burns and the sky rains stars, will time only stop and stare at Earth in shock.
If a person was time, who would it be?
Prophets and civilizations all played the game of time.
All the time wasted on people with no brains.
Hours and minutes all progress forward.
Time and time again we cry.
What never ends nor stops, time is all it takes to go back.
Moving forward and going back are a matter of change.
Forward into time, forward into growth.
But times does comeback, maybe in people or in places.
Going back in time is not necessarily staying in the past.
As time never goes back but people learn and change based on that.
Time heals and time brings the past back.
The future is the past, because as time moves forward all the pain of the past arrives.
Time between the stars is time that never lasts.
Time never stops and can always go back, just by the change of course.
Only the Sun and Moon can explain.
Once the Earth burns and the sky rains stars, will time only stop and stare at Earth in shock.
Time/s
I see Time
In its singular plurality
Each time differently
Either short and fat
Rolling down
Gathering dross
A bundle of laughs
Into a valley of tears
Or part of a table
High enough to do something
On the agenda
Some Times
Go missing
When out for a walk in the woods
Lost
In search of the forgotten
Found on the last page
Too late
Sometimes
It can be long
Dragging
Its sinewy bulk
Hard to chew on
Too slow
Watching paint dry
Then suddenly,
Not waving, but running
Taking off
Flying
Not stopping for me to catch up
In its singular plurality
Each time differently
Either short and fat
Rolling down
Gathering dross
A bundle of laughs
Into a valley of tears
Or part of a table
High enough to do something
On the agenda
Some Times
Go missing
When out for a walk in the woods
Lost
In search of the forgotten
Found on the last page
Too late
Sometimes
It can be long
Dragging
Its sinewy bulk
Hard to chew on
Too slow
Watching paint dry
Then suddenly,
Not waving, but running
Taking off
Flying
Not stopping for me to catch up