by Cheryl Pallant | Jul 31, 2012 | contact improvisation, dance, poetry
Joe Tranquillo and me Anyone who has tried to assign words to movement immediately encounters difficulty. How do you apply something as seemingly static as words to motion? Early in the process of creating an outline for my book on contact improvisation, Contact...
by Cheryl Pallant | Jun 14, 2012 | best writing books, creative writing, poetry, writing prompt
Best writing occurs with practice. The more you write, the more you learn. What you think may work chafes against what does work. You edit. You edit again. Sometimes you start over, scrap the entire manuscript, perhaps saving some of your precious lines in a separate...
by Cheryl Pallant | Sep 15, 2011 | chalking poetry, poetic action, poetry
A historic global poetry event is about to take place! To date, 650 events in 450 cities and 95 countries will take place on September 24 to promote environmental, social, and political change through poetry. Poets, writers, and artists will create, perform and...
by Cheryl Pallant | Jun 21, 2011 | body awareness, buddhist poetry, poetry
After years of writing and meditating, I’ve reached the point when it’s unclear when I’m doing which. It’s not as easy as sitting on a cushion versus sitting before a computer. The similarities are endless. In both, I am attending to my breath, subtly shifting my...
by Cheryl Pallant | Jun 2, 2011 | poetic action, poetry
photo: Biegart and Funk A Poetic Action 6:50 this is not popcorn 7:57 if morse code were used 8:59 a perspective worth viewing 10:17 if only for a moment 10:49 longer by the end...
