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have to figure out my home i can focus on bigger things or smaller things i don t know how important any of this actually is bg you re understanding of god at least as made manifest through your poetry seems almost puritanical old testament at the very least where does this come from i have a similar obsession although it rarely finds its way into my fiction mine stems from a childhood crammed full of bible school sunday school awana baptism lots of bible reading praying studying meditating did you do much of that growing up what is your relationship with god like right now db i was raised going to church every sunday i believed until around the age of 20 that i was going to hell that there was some kind of loophole or some asterisk next to my soul that would keep me from being saved eventually i was able to get rid of that feeling that s such a pointless feeling to have the more weeks i went without going to church the less i thought about how damned i am i realized too how impressionable children are how easy it is to believe i mostly went to methodist churches which are more liberal and accepting but there s such a strange and exciting thing to the absolute and exclusionary views of the puritans especially since for so long i viewed myself as one of those who would not be saved it made faith and spirituality more than just a struggle to me it was something to fight against poetry became my way of attempting to put out the fire and grind the brimstone to dust it s turned into my way of demolishing my old systems of belief and creating new ones or letting everything happen at once in a way that no one can deny the beauty of ok maybe the beauty can be denied but whatever that s ok no beauty is undeniable i went to youth group throughout high school like i really went to youth group i went on ski trips and white water rafting trips where i watched my mom almost drown in a flooded west virginia river i started going to youth group because that s what i had to do for my parents to let me use the car i kept going because it provided me with friends though all my effort to feel the love of god returned nothing i spent a lot of time in high school trying to improve my relationship with god or become one with god because that s what everyone around me was doing or seemed to be doing i thought about attending christian colleges to put myself even further into a place where god could potentially happen but thankfully i ended up at ball state where i learned to get drunk and stomp i was baptized twice sprinkled once as a baby and once by submersion in a year that i can t remember i was probably somewhere between 4th and 6th grade i was submersed with three other kids my age after our baptism we all dried off got dressed and delivered a fourth of a sermon each that the pastor had prepared for us to read after that i m pretty sure we all went to little caesar s and ate pizza i don t have a very strong memory of any of it i do remember once in sunday school i was probably 15 or so i did that thing where you put your head between your knees and breathe deeply for 30 seconds then you lift your upper body and head quickly while holding your breath and cutting off circulation to your head it made me collapse onto the sofa in the sunday school classroom and i just laughed while my head moved around the room and that s what language is like to me it s the inaccurate reconstruction of a feeling words are little packages to god or the rubble of a true sacrament and that sacrament would just be the hum or the buzzing back of what god speaks through us every moment of our lives poetry is something like a translation of the buzzing right now my relationship with god is between me and god i m 99 done with another book of poetry which speaks in this manner more so than hallelujah giant space wolf it s called gather me and if any publishers of poetry books want to read it for potential publication please email me at hisnameisdan at gmail dot com anyone can feel free to email me for any reason whatsoever cram the tubes of life the internet so tight with emails that we have to stint that shit to keep the blood moving also i don t what awana is and i ve tried meditating before but it just felt silly bg there seems to be this constant contrast in your poetry between wanting to cause and or be part of the chaos and destruction of people places and things even those you care about and purport to love with the notion of faith and hope and a belief after all that humanity is something worth saving something to invest your soul in and be a part of is that at all accurate and if so where does that conflict inside you come from db it is definitely something i feel and something that is part of the poems the destruction is not anything i ever act upon it s more the thing inside that looks at the world and feels that it could be so much better that wants to destroy the parts that seem evil or worthless even if that destruction ends up taking down something that you love in order to create something of greater beauty something more perfect more of a heaven i am not a violent person i have only punched one person in the face in my life and that was when i was in middle school and i was just having a shitty day i don t even kill spiders or the weird infestation of seemingly stunned or half dead yellowjackets that we experienced all last summer i would kill an animal to eat it i would kill a dog to eat it if i had to just not my dog i once ate a fried caterpillar it was salty and the exoskeleton coated the inside of my mouth like flyers on the inside of a music venue s bathroom i ve eaten ants off the sidewalk i ve eaten a live moth i think it s amazing that the world is a physical thing when it so often seems that the physical is just the shadow of this real thing that s out there or that this physical world that we inhabit is maybe the symptom of a disease manifesting like the spots from chickenpox and we can t see the virus itself with our own eyes bg in addition to your midwestern upbringing and your own love for language and writing and literature how has your experience studying creative writing at a university affected influenced inspired shaped your writing db white chocolate macadamia cookies academia bg fair enough but cookies are greater than most everything i m gonna use syllogistic logic and assume either you learn more and gain more inspiration from cookies than you do academia and or cookies just taste better either way why are mfa s worth not worth pursuing why did you personally make the decision db well i was hoping to avoid having to talk about mfa programs because i don t have anything new to add to the conversation the main thing it gave me was time to write outside of the world but now i feel like it s more important to be a part of the world rather than living in a bubble of bloated thought or whatever way you want to describe the academic approach to poetry i regret not eating more cookies over the last few years of my life my main reason to attend grad school was to get the hell out of muncie indiana as much fun as i was having there that place is a black hole so now i m colorado and i have a couple jobs and in a few months i get to start paying back my loans and hopefully someone will want to publish my thesis hopefully i ll be able to find the energy to write more poems after that it s nice to think that i ll be able to write poems for myself and no one else which is what i ve been doing this last year but having to have those poems get a stamp of approval from a university doesn t really help the way i feel about poetry which is that i want a poem forever into the dirt or until it rains you can t stamp that bg cookies for sure how about leaving us with a final thought if there s one or maybe a few thing s you want readers to come away with after reading hallelujah giant space wolf what is it db oh god a final thought i don t want any thought to be final people should keep thinking beyond poems people should be good people etc i think i need to eat some breakfast i think i need to drink some more water it s so dry out here that i woke up feeling more dehydrated than any hangover and i haven t even drank alcohol since friday it s wednesday people should drink more water i think the pacers could potentially win the nba championship this year and that s pretty exciting though they probably won t i think it s weird to promote a book in any way it feels weird but here i am promoting a book i think you should buy the book if you are reading this if you ve made it this far into the interview i promise it s good it took three years to write some of the poems are pretty epic some let you breathe a little bit though most are pretty breathless this book exists so you don t have to go to church there s that idea that the body is a temple well my brain is a mega church huddle in there people we re about to sacrifice a lamb also what is the deal with people acting like they don t get poetry it s just words do you know how to read people posted by dogzplot at 2 11 pm 1 comment tuesday april 17 2012 heavy feather review reading in bowling green april 28 2012 posted by dogzplot at 10 23 am no comments wednesday april 11 2012 texts from hillary posted by dogzplot at 12 11 pm no comments sunday april 8 2012 surrounded by water stefanie freele press 53 stefanie freele was born and raised in wisconsin and currently lives near a river but not near enough on the northwest coast her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in several literary magazines journals and anthologies including glimmer train mid american review western humanities review sou wester quarterly west the florida review night train prime number magazine american literary review word riot and pank awards for stories in surrounded by water include first place in the glimmer train fiction open for while surrounded by water second place in the glimmer train family matters contest for us hungarians a 2010 million writers notable story award for buccaneers an editor s pick in the mid american review fineline competition for removal of oneself from corporate identity and a pushcart prize nomination for pozniejszy stefanie received a kathy fish fellowship from smokelong quarterly and served as writer in residence she was also the 2010 2011 healdsburg literary laureate her first short story collection feeding strays lost horse press was a finalist for the binghamton university john gardner fiction book award and the book of the year award from foreword reviews stefanie holds an mfa from the northwest institute of literary arts and is currently fiction editor of the los angeles review visit stefanie online at www stefaniefreele com reviews praise stefanie freele s fiction offers the thrill of discovering details sure to be overlooked by a less alert eye her characters take control of their lives by insisting as their author does that each moment matters and can become something resonant and moving and strange in the very best way read these rare stories and you will learn all over again how to look steve himmer author of the bee loud glade editor necessary fiction with a poet s ear and a scientist s eye stefanie freele recasts suburban ennui as existential terror domestic drudgery as harrowing suspense these stories are terrific they are small in scope but their implications are enormous j robert lennon author of pieces for the left hand and familiar if you like your darkness with a splash of humor stefanie freele s surrounded by water is the book for you this smart mix of long and short short stories is wonderfully crafted and filled with an array of uniquely flawed characters freele is a great storyteller read her work sherrie flick author of i call this flirting and reconsidering happiness tear open this latest bag of stefanie freele stories eat just one soon the bag will be empty and you won t feel the least bit guilty these stories contain minerals vitamins and fiber but you ll swear they re too yummy to be good for you bruce holland rogers author of the keyhole opera stefanie freele is a master of getting out of her own way her stories are notable for what they are not not at all predictable not heavy or light not true not false they are joyful harrowing quirky and deeply honest like the music of your thoughts when your head is clear and ears unplugged dan coshnear author of jobs other preoccupations posted by dogzplot at 9 06 am no comments saturday april 7 2012 author interview rusty barnes rusty barnes grew up in rural northern appalachia he received his b a from mansfield university of pennsylvania and his m f a from emerson college his fiction poetry and non fiction have appeared in over a hundred fifty journals and anthologies after editing fiction for the beacon street review now redivider and zoetrope all story extra he co founded night train a literary journal which has been featured in the boston globe the new york times and on national public radio sunnyoutside press published a collection of his flash fiction breaking it down in november 2007 mipoesias published his poetry chapbook redneck poems and broke sunnyoutside published his collection of traditional fiction mostly redneck in august 2011 bg as fiction wrters i think we are better able to seperate the author from the narrator but for the common reader the distinction is a little harder to make especally with a collecton like this where the setting and the characters and the voice and the intimate details and understanding of appalachian life are so strong and distinctive its easy to assume these stories have a hint of autobiography in them so what s the deal how much of rusty barnes the man the author can we find in the pages of mostly redneck rb i think i m going to steal something i once heard saw steve almond say all the stories are emotionally autobiographical which is to say some stories are really close to my life and others are complete fictions and still others are somewhere in the middle i usually don t use many words writing but i spend a lot of psychic energy reliving parts of my life a lot of it my childhood in order to find the point of the story or poem i m working on or an image that fits in bg i hear a lot of poets talk about channeling that psychic level of energy and refocusing it into their poetry and i ve been talked through the process so i think i understand it but with fiction could you describe a little bit about what that process might look like what shape it might take talk me through the process of channeling that psychic energy and transforming it into a narrative story rb material i write about poetry or fiction comes about via one line i ve imagined first which i build or subtract from or the material comes from an image in either case i spend some time usually not very much time i m a purely instinctual writer cogitating over what i ve done and syncing it into 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