Girl Band of STEMs, is a lark, a careful ruse about a writer, who comments on her own stories. It is metafiction in a digital world. This, I would argue . . . The author writes a story about herself, writing a story about her Band, and the Band knows they’re in the story, about a story that interacts with you. She writes a story, where her audience is her muse – may demand she change the ending, in an installation they build in space for dreams — on a loop . . .
The Band asked me to write tags for my work. Tags! But, opportunity or obstacle . . . the Muse is insatiable — until it works. Poets know that tick, when everything becomes art – in a second glance. Woodstock, was absolute freestyle in a digital world. I worked on it for weeks . . . and wrote it Live one Saturday afternoon – five hundred revisions at least. Poets know that tick. I changed commas to periods and back again – metaphors to imagery, slowed it down, sped it up. Reminisced. If you were there on that Saturday afternoon, Woodstock was a writer’s tick at work. I wrote the hook on the 7th Street Bridge in Washington, DC. Installed [Reserved][Reserved] when I lost my way. Found the beat, marked the spot, and then it looked like a digital art installation, in spite of the implications — for structural functionalism in space. But my muse is pissed!
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EDUCATION:
BFA Northeastern University
CPM, SSGB George Washington University
FAWC Summer Program 2013
Oculus Launchpad 2021 Alumna
EXPERIENCE:
United States Air Force
OLP 2021 Cohort Member
ORGANIZATIONS:
ZICA Creative Arts & Literary Guild
Founding Member Boston Zone Poets