Eileen R. Tabios is a poet working in multiple genres and in-between. She also loves books by writing, reading, publishing, critiquing, romancing and advocating for them. This blog will feature her bibliophilic activities with posts on current book engagements and links to her books and projects related to books.

Thursday, October 11, 2018

LENY STROBEL JOURNALS WITH MDR FOR A HUNDRED PAGES!


How amazing is it to get a 100-page response to one of your books!?!

Yes. Massively amazing.

Leny M. Strobel wrote one-page responses to lines from the MDR Poetry Generator database—see HERE more information about MDR—for a few months and doesn’t disappoint: she goes as varied as MDR does!

And now some excerpts from Leny’s Journaling with MDR Poetry is up at #allpinayeverything curated by Barbara Jane Reyes. Thanks to Leny and Barbara!

Here’s an example of how Leny engaged: to my MDR line

841    I forgot darkness was the key, not the lock.

Leny begins by recalling the “childhood trauma of sexual abuse” and goes from the personal to the political to conclude

The fear of Dark as Other … is also named

Woman
Filipina
Brown Monkey
Sevant of Globalization
Prostitute
Comfort Woman
Imeldific

What power, what energy, lies within Leny. I’m glad she is now an Elder. Salamat, Leny.

Four excerpts of Leny's engagement are available HERE. YOU ARE INVITED TO READ. And perhaps you want to use MDR, too, to spark off new writings ... which you can do through the book MURDER DEATH RESURRECTION. Have fun! Have power!




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