Ephemera Newsletter Iss Sept.3

(Creativity and Motivation Weekly)

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Ephemera

Small moments. We’re a collection of myriad tiny events that, cumulatively, yield exponential thoughts, derivations of meaning. In summer we woo the experience, in fall we sift through the expanse. We woo a type of writing wealth in this way. Of course, these are heuristics—some of us may find greater cause to action in the season for which they are best fit. Yet we consider a cycle of creativity and productivity in order that we may partake as needed, as the shoe fits. There are no overarching, all-governing dogmas to creativity. Orthodoxy ought exist only in that it undergird the how’s and why’s—orthodoxy can be polymorphic, i.e. it’s decided there are many ways to learn to write and all should be contended with for a robust practice. Each week we attempt to deliver a piece of this, a tract of that, one or a couple lines of thinking. We hope you’ll view our words collectively. We hope our 3 zines/mags/jobs help to spur us to action on the publishing and professional front (we need to eat and be seen). We hope this week’s music selection, Autechre, will interlace disparate thoughts, help you think; this week’s artist, Ai Weiwei, will inspire a desire to impact. Explore our new residency, our literary sponsor, and consider pitching us on your projects. Books, too! We want to build with you, promote community, raise our collective bar. Literature is worth it. You’re projects are, your artistry. Let’s conjoin and manifest within ourselves the art of the grand the tininess of execution. Brave forward.

Learn to break apart a concept, a conceit, a tradition and put it back together with care, a bit of your invention. This is a type of deconstruction paired with consideration for those that invented prior. Love of that which we assay—sometimes assail—brings us closer to the hearts and minds of those we wish to affect. There’s a balance in understanding this integration. Too, in using the skill as a smallness, as a craft technique (not just conceptually), particularly via repetition and integration, thinking artfully of the microcosms in a line and the inevitable macrocosms of a poem, a collection, a chapter, a story. Tiny chance explosions contained via craft mastery and a call to beauty…corporal shifts resulting from these chances, major stirrings in perception. Fracture an urn, record the emotion, hearken to an erstwhile meaning, and capture and recall that history in an act of destruction, a now-beauty. Preservation. Savvy? Write to us (see below) and tell of your travails and ideas, projects and chances taken. We’ll be proud. Subscribe and be a part of our imagination, literally be a sustaining force. We reach our hearts out to those who have. Stir your self; seek to elicit whirring in the chest, recall of your collected deep blue yearnings. Oh, the chill, the sun of that vista.

We’ll urn by your appreciation!

Whakamoemiti! (Gratitude)

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Featured Music: Autechre

Having met amongst the Manchester, UK graffiti scene in the late 80’s, Rob Brown and Sean Booth formed the duo Autechre, an expression of their keen interest in electronic, synth, hip-hop, repetition, arcing and, from our perspective, thinking-space….