http://alice.dreamformula.net Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:37:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Coming soon! Email me if you like one and you can't get one from me in person. aashindelar@gmail.com http://alice.dreamformula.net/2010/08/aroma-of-another-country/ Please come on out to our going away party! Alice & Ezra's Send Off Party at the Breaks Time: September 10 at 9:00pm - September 11 at 2:00am Location: The Blue Nile ... http://alice.dreamformula.net/2010/08/alice-ezras-send-off-party-at-the-breaks/ For those of you who haven't made it out of your air conditioned houses all summer, the National Poetry Slam is coming to St. Paul in August. That means 84 teams from all over the nation and upwards of 400 poets will descend on St. Paul the first week of ... http://alice.dreamformula.net/2010/07/2010-national-poetry-slam/ My brother told me that performing at the Entry means you've made it. Then, a few days later, someone recognized me while showering in the woman's locker room at the YMCA. Thanks Punch Out Poetry! Alice-Wanderlust from Alice Shindelar on Vimeo. http://alice.dreamformula.net/2010/07/wanderlust-at-7th-street-entry/ When she offers you that dangerous pleasure, the kind that pretends you don't owe each other anything, accept. Accept, or she'll realize that she's been walking in your shadow all along. Accept, or we'll say that you are no man. Accept, you'll regret it either way. Perhaps she is the devil dangling dirty panties like collectables. But you were born to ... http://alice.dreamformula.net/2010/06/apple/ Here are some videos from the last Punch Out Poetry slam. Lolita's Revenge The Hunt Don't Ask http://alice.dreamformula.net/2010/05/pop-slam-april-30th/ They're not the happiest couple. They steal kisses between ten hour shifts, accidentally brush hands in the grocery store aisle. Somehow he always tickles her hips when her fingertips are too wrinkled from dishwater to sense his heat. She sleeps plank style. It's too hard to swallow the bush fire he ignites so she ... http://alice.dreamformula.net/2010/04/on-settling/ We'd had it up to here with this self-destructing paradise, so we began to take down the city today. It started close to sun break on a Monday, when a woman on Washington and 3rd unhinged the east facing wall of her office building. The wall trumpeted against the asphalt, sent ... http://alice.dreamformula.net/2010/04/deconstruction/ Postman When they told me how you also spent fifteen years as a Postman trapped in the belly of a train, thousands of miles from your family, I guess I finally understood why there was nothing gentle about your hands. I imagine it was because of how many countless stories slipped through them licked, gummed shut, paper cut ... http://alice.dreamformula.net/2010/02/me-on-youtube/ This is a short story I wrote for the Prism Open Mic. Enjoy! Captive Eighteen years ago, Philbert Ramirez found his pet wandering the empty streets one quiet suburban morning. One look and he knew she had been sent for him, that she was meant for him. She was so ... http://alice.dreamformula.net/2009/12/captive/