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Question 1: What happened during Oulipost that you didn’t expect? What are the best (or worst) moments for you?

It was all pretty surprising for me. I don’t know if I had a worst moment… the worst feeling was whenever real life crept in and kept me from posting every day. That happened at the very end. Frustrating, but I finished all of them.

Question 2: What questions do you have for your teaspoons? What questions do your teaspoons have for you?

For my teaspoons: Why the hell won’t you get clean when I use you to scoop butter?

My teaspoons for me: Where have you taken my brothers and sisters?

Question 3: What does your street look like?

A row of single family homes mixed with duplexes and townhouses… on a tree-lined street… on one end of the street is a Japanese and Chinese Restaurant, and on the other end is an empty lot where House #666 would be… I am not joking.

Question 4: Who is your spirit Oulipostian?

Georges Perec and his awesome New Wave hair. Oh, wait, my spirit OuliPOSTian? That’s a tough one, but I kept finding inspiration in Doug Luman’s stuff—and his awesome New Wave hair.

Question 5: What are the top three poems you wrote during this project?

 Right now, I’m feeling:

 “A Man and A Woman”

“Path”

and

“1993”

Question 6: What will you do next?

I’m going to Disneyland!

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Medsker on Medsker: Self-Interview for OULIPOST (National Poetry Month 2014)

WHAT EXCITES YOU ABOUT OULIPOST?

I have always struggled with form… As a writer, I need constraints. Once the form is there, I feel like I can run wild.

I have also had a love of math and computers, since I was a little kid, and I love the intersection of math and literature. I just hope that no one gets hurt. Make sure to look both ways before crossing this sentence!

WHAT, IF ANYTHING, SCARES YOU ABOUT OULIPOST?

Life is scary enough. Art is play.

HAVE YOU WRITTEN EXPERIMENTAL OR FOUND POETRY BEFORE? IF SO, TELL US ABOUT IT.

I started writing found poetry in high school, as class assignments, and that was groovy. I had some forward-thinking teachers. Around this same time, I got into William Burroughs, with his cut-ups, and I was off… He really opened it up for me, in terms of what you can do with language. These days I’ve been enjoying Charles Bernstein and David Foster Wallace, for more modern language tweakers… I participated in the Found Poetry Review's project for National Poetry Month 2013, Pulitzer Remix also. What a joy. Love it. I actually did a found poetry chapbook, which is coming out as we speak, with Christopher Luna, one of my fellow remixers! Details on Twenty-Four Hours (www.twentyfourhoursonline.org)

WHAT NEWSPAPER WILL SERVE AS YOUR SOURCE TEXT?

Bayonne Community News, and the Newark Star-Ledger

WHO’S YOUR SPIRIT OULIPIAN?

I really like Georges Perec. He has this sense of humor that just gets me. I also love his hair. He looks like he should be in Pere Ubu or some New Wave band. So far ahead of his time, stylistically, aesthetically… He’s great.

#oulipost

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