May 30, 2012
Pulp Magazine

Here’s a link to the online edition of Pulp Magazine, a Literary/Arts mag that some friends and I founded at Kwantlen this year, comprised entirely of student work. It published in March and we quickly sold out our stock of 800 copies. I served as one of the Literary Editors for this edition and our second edition will be out in June.

My own work is on pages 21 and 37, if you’re into that sort of thing, but we’re all really proud of each page and everyone who submitted to the premiere edition.

Go’n take a look.

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Filed under: Pulp Magazine literary journal student writing poetry 
May 23, 2012
The Lonely Writers’ Club - Arc

Dear Connor, 

Thank you for giving the editorial board at Arc a chance to read your poetry. Unfortunately, we will not be accepting this work for publication. 

Your submission was read by a minimum of three members of our editorial board. Due to the voluntary nature of this board and the sheer volume of unsolicited submissions we receive each year, we are unable to provide a detailed critique for you at this time. 

Feel free to contact me with any questions, and many thanks, again, for considering Arc. 


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Filed under: Lonely Writers' Club 
May 17, 2012
She Doesn't Like Her Legs

Follow the link to an interview I did last year with The Runner, Kwantlen’s student newspaper. In it you’ll find me performing one of my pieces, “She Doesn’t Like Her Legs”, and answering some questions about writing and Spoken Word/Slam in particular. The other voice belongs to Claire Matthews, who performs her wonderful poem “Like I do.” I think Mark Barton might be in there too.

Have a listen, and hey, you’re legs are pretty all right too.

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Filed under: slam poetry spoken word Interview Student Poetry 
May 12, 2012
The Process For Every Creative Writing Idea Ever

Gets Idea

Likes Idea

Shitty Writing Happens

Hates Idea

The End.

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Filed under: Creative Writing Shitty Writing Ideas 
April 27, 2012
Lonely Writers’ Club - the Malahat Review

“Dear Connor,

We regret that we have decided not to publish your work. The Malahat Review receives many excellent manuscripts and can only publish a small percentage of them. Thank you for thinking of us. We wish you success in placing your work elsewhere.

PS: You might consider reading some Rumi.

Best, Portia.”

—-My girlfriend loves Rumi, I’ll be sure to check in with her on his writerly whatnots.

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Filed under: Rejection Letters Dear Authors Lonely Writers' Club 
April 14, 2012
The Hunger Game of Thrones

This most popular book of all time.

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Filed under: The Hunger Games Game of Thrones Look overrated 
April 11, 2012
Poets and Songwriters

This will be a new feature on Grub Street: I’m going to compare/contrast excerpts from certain poems with song lyrics that happen to channel a similar thought or argue opposing views. Why am I doing this? It will become clear in time…

THIS WEEK: Philip Larkin vs DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

The Poem - “This Be The Verse”

They fuck you up, your mom and dad.
They don’t mean to, but they do.

The Lyric - “Parents Just Don’t Understand”

“Parents just don’t understand.”

Did one of the greatest English language poets of the latter half of the twentieth century channel some cosmic vibe shared by American hip-hop royalty DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince? Larkin, ever the blunt one, poses that all human history is a never ending lineage of inherited despair, passed on from generation to generation, only ceasing when the last of us die out or else chose to prevent our paternal suffering from spreading to our descendants by mercifully choosing not to allow them access to life. To that respect, The Fresh Prince adds to the conversation the immortal wisdom that parents sometimes have a difficulty understanding their kids.
Powerful stuff. 
Basically these two wordsmiths seem to be in agreement, stating the same fundamental argument across the widest cultural gap imaginable. And yet, for the sake of pointless competitiveness, we turn to another contemporary parental philosophizer for a conflicting take on the matter: 

Cheap Trick - “Surrender”

Mommy’s alright,
Daddy’s alright,
They just seem a little crazy.

The debate soldiers on.

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Filed under: Philip Larkin The Fresh Prince Poetry Song lyrics 
April 10, 2012

(Source: ianbrooks, via brandnewbeggar)

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April 5, 2012
psychofactz: http://www.psychofactz.com/ I’ve really wanted to write something on common phrases or ideas about the world that everybody mentions but have long since been dispelled. This is one of them; that’s totally not true, yet people keep saying it, likely because it’s an interesting and somewhat shocking story. I don’t know what I’d do with it, but I think Im going to start compiling things like this and see where it leads.

psychofactz:

http://www.psychofactz.com/

I’ve really wanted to write something on common phrases or ideas about the world that everybody mentions but have long since been dispelled. This is one of them; that’s totally not true, yet people keep saying it, likely because it’s an interesting and somewhat shocking story. I don’t know what I’d do with it, but I think Im going to start compiling things like this and see where it leads.

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April 4, 2012
Stephanie Peters: The word I will never spell correctly

stephaniepeters:

Every single time I write the word “Surprise”, I spell it wrong.

Every. Single. Time.

For the most part, I’m a pretty decent speller. I get that English words are often spelled differently than they sound. I remember the rules, and the exceptions. Still every time I go to write “surprise”, or…

Febuary

Whensday

Alcahol

Definatly

Ugh.

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