Pensive Prowler
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Pensive Prowler #20: Notes from a Writer’s Residency
Pensive Prowler #20 by Dmetri Kakmi Notes from a Writers’ Residency I’m at Zvona i Nari (Bells and Pomegranates), a writers’ residency in Croatia’s Istrian coast, to finish my novel. I’ve been struggling with this story for two years and I haven’t been able to get the better of it. It’s turned into bit of Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #19: A Life in the Day of an Editor
Pensive Prowler #19 by Dmetri Kakmi A Life in the Day of an Editor When I’m not being a writer, I am disguised as a mild mannered freelance editor, complete with spectacles, and I do what all editors must do to earn a buck. Prostitute myself. That’s to say, I sell myself to publishers and Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #18: Hamlet of the Abyss
Pensive Prowler #18 by Dmetri Kakmi Hamlet of the Abyss Hamlet’s actions and motivations have either been compared to the “unnatural” drives of Oedipus towards his mother, or he has been charged with an inability to navigate his way, in mature fashion, through the forest of choices pressed upon him during his ordeal in the Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #17: The Indelicate Art of Teaching Writing
Pensive Prowler #17 by Dmetri Kakmi The Indelicate Art of Teaching Writing Being a writing teacher is not easy. Some days you want to strangle a student. Harsh words. Spoken out of rashness and frustration. Words I will regret. Let me explain and you might find sympathy in your heart for my predicament. Earlier in Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #16: Would That Which We Call an Arse by any Other Name Smell as Sweet?
Pensive Prowler #16 by Dmetri Kakmi Would That Which We Call an Arse by any Other Name Smell as Sweet? “Are you writing about the whole butt or are you writing just about the hole?” —Rochelle Siemienowicz It need hardly be said that male buttocks have been around since antiquity. We need only Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #15: Craft Your World with Words
Pensive Prowler #15 by Dmetri Kakmi Craft Your World with Words “Craft your world with words.” I’m captivated by this sentence on the cover of a writing program. There’s no end to the implications, permutations and possibilities in that short construct. And because I’m interested in origins, the beginning place of things, I think of Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #14: Nobody from Nowhere
Pensive Prowler #14 by Dmetri Kakmi Nobody from Nowhere I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you Nobody, too? Then there’s a pair of us — don’t tell! They’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be Somebody! How public, like a Frog To tell one’s name the livelong June To an admiring Bog! Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #13: Flying High
Pensive Prowler #13 by Dmetri Kakmi Flying High I don’t want to brag, but … I recently flew to Rome and London business-class. It’s quite the experience. There’s nothing like it. The problem is I’m now elevated to a higher state and can’t possibly travel cattle-class again. It’s too too ghastly, I tell you, sitting Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #12: Walking in the Rain
Pensive Prowler #12 by DMETRI KAKMI Walking in the Rain In memory of George Young, the co-writer of ‘Walking in the Rain’; and for John King, who shares the passion. Melbourne, 1981. It was the height of the New Romantics movement. I was twenty years old and enamoured of the Blitz Kids in England’s club Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #11: I am Not Your Faggot
Pensive Prowler #11 by Dmetri Kakmi I am Not Your Faggot In the documentary I am Not Your Negro, James Baldwin says, “The white population of this country has to ask itself why it was necessary to have the nigger in the first place. I’m not a nigger. I’m a man. If you think I’m Continue reading
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