Marc Lowe

Thank you for the comment on 'Musica.' It's very loosely based on the myth of La Loba - 'The Wolf Woman.' (When one's tired, if very lucky they may encounter La Loba in the desert, and she breathes life back into their bones. Something to that effect.) - Apparently there's a version of that tale in most countries myth/folklore. I'm glad it read as faintly universal or familiar.

Hi Marc! I love your comments on Wrong Nail Polish. Thanks so much.

Dear Marc, thanks for such an indepth read of In Unison and your comments. It is tragic, was written during a tragic period in my life. Thankfully that has past and I got at least one good poem out of the ordeal. I see you are in Japan. It has suffered greatly. I used to go there when I was a tour guide. Have a photo of Kamakura Buddah on the fridge. He's very spiritual. Take care!

Thank you very much for the comment on 'The Arms of the Forest.' It's drawing on the bare bones of some of The Sleeping Beauty story (so, yeah: Brothers Grimm.) Some details I changed, but mostly I was working with the idea that in the original the protagonist is passive and very much at the mercy of her story. I wanted to make her more active within it - play around with her relationship to the narrative and to the forest itself.

Thank you v. much for the comment on 'Blind' :)

Marc, thank you for reading Survivor and the Cutting Edge. I'm honored. Peace...

Hi Marc,

Thanks very much for the comment on my story. (It's not actually meant to make sense - hence a Shiva plus a wake, and a pyre plus a drowning...But it may be that that works against it.)

Your name is familiar to me, so I'm thinking I may have read some of your writing in Sein Und Werden if you've had writing in there before?

And now I'm going to read some more of it.

I chainsmoke, drink a fifth of bourbon and watch spaghetti westerns - only thing that works for me. Just kidding of course, in actuality I tend to be very sober, some alcohol is okay while writing but not too much, can't listen to music at all, don't smoke anymore and write on a laptop at the kitchen table, no dusty garret plastered with Rimbaud posters for me...so boring, no?

Thank you for reading and commenting on Otherworld. Its part of a series, a chapbook I'm working on. Its based on my Peace Corps experience in Armenia.

I noticed that you are a second year MFA student at Brown. I'm starting my MFA at Fairfield University in December. I see, too you are teaching at Brown. Do you have an MA and PhD? Or having/working on an MFA is sufficient to teach at a university/college?

Glad to see you here, Marc.

Good to hear from you, Marc!!