Ren Powell, Poet | Playwright | Teaching Artist

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The Archive of Self- Absorption.

  • Update – MOVED TO SUBSTACK

    I received verification that my email subscribers have been successfully transfered to substack. I want to thank you in advance for continuing to read! (Please check your spam filter if you don’t get a post from substack today.) *NB A reminder that you do not need to make account at substack to sign up for… Read more

  • Embracing the Fog Creatively

    Yesterday I charged my dead reMarkable. I am ready to write poetry again, despite the chemo-induced fog I’m still experiencing. A person can find meaning in fog. It can be very soothing actually, fog filling the little depressions in the landscape. Depression is the actual scientific name for places where the fog gathers here on… Read more

  • Rewrites and Moving On

    4 am my time and zooming with the other west coast: a table reading with amazing people willing to give three hours of their time, energy and trust to someone who hasn’t had a staged production for adults in over twenty years. More than a little overwhelmed with appreciation. But still my awkward self. I… Read more

  • Some Changes in the Works

    Basically copy/paste from Facebook: Since leaving Twitter last year, I have been thinking about my experiments the last few years with social media, the “show your work” approach to publishing, online networking, “gigging”, vispo, and writing… And recently I’ve come to consider how precious our time and energy really is. It’s time for me to… Read more

  • Crisis of Confidence

    Mid-flow, everything screeches to a halt. Mid-pentameter “doth” and I am thinking, what the Hell am I doing? Sacrilege to mess with Shakespeare. Where do I get off? How do I marry the archaic language to a heightened, but accessible language? And then there is the fact that my lines just beg to run into… Read more

  • Rumors

    I’m still circling around the problem of the letters. Information flies distances in breathtaking speed in Shakespeare’s time. All these letters. I am wondering how far from Shakespeare I want to go – not in terms of time (the brief is specific on keeping the time period as is – and I don’t think email… Read more