Nostrovia! Poetry
love, Dreamer
It is Art because it is alive. It proves that, if you and I are to create at all, we must create with today and let all the Art schools and Medicis in the universe go hang themselves with yesterday’s rope. It teaches us that we have made a profound error in trying to learn Art, since whatever Art stands for is whatever cannot be learned... Look into yourself, reader; for you must find Art there, if at all.
from e.e. cummings, The Agony of the Artist (with a Capital A)
(anti~)Manifesto
We are whispers. The internet is a
scream.
scream.
I am Nostrovia! Poetry. I was born in October, 2011. The exact date is unknown.
I was raised Catholic, but the smell of Saint Joan's burning flesh distracted me from organized religion. I am an agnostic of most things.
I used to worship the Beat Generation. My past romantic notions of the road have been beaten out me by Tampa concrete and Erie murderers.
I travel to promote passionate living > making a living.
I used to worship the Beat Generation. My past romantic notions of the road have been beaten out me by Tampa concrete and Erie murderers.
I travel to promote passionate living > making a living.
The 21st century is a fertile land of artistic opportunity.
Rather than worship the past, I am using the past to build upon the present to write a future.
Blogging, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, all of these are places to bring poetry to new levels and trespass borders in art. We do not need prestigious publication and reviews to push our creativity and artistic inclinations forward.
Blogging, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, all of these are places to bring poetry to new levels and trespass borders in art. We do not need prestigious publication and reviews to push our creativity and artistic inclinations forward.
Books & Shovels, Lawrence K.S.
Passionate Living > Making a Living.
Publication through me is an agreement to cooperate with my staff to promote literature, specifically poetry, and encourage others to live passionately.
I was conceived to push independent creative thinking and boost forward the inherent freedom in art.
We no longer have to rely on large publishing houses and prestigious reviews to spread word of our dedication.
I work with the writers I publish to cross promote projects, blogs and websites, and social medias. I grow with and for the writers here.
The 21st century is a skeleton key. The Gates of Media are wide open. Jump in the flood.
We no longer have to rely on large publishing houses and prestigious reviews to spread word of our dedication.
I work with the writers I publish to cross promote projects, blogs and websites, and social medias. I grow with and for the writers here.
The 21st century is a skeleton key. The Gates of Media are wide open. Jump in the flood.
I'm done preaching at your front door with a prank gun loaded with bullets. This Manifesto is not a claim to power or Truth, we do not know Truth, and only offer our Love, Confusion, & creative debris.
Help Nostrovia!'s outreach grow:
Books & Shovels debut table at the 2014 NYC Poetry Festival
We want YOU to say "HEY! I AM EXCITED TO BE ALIVE! I AM NOT AFRAID TO MAKE SACRIFICES TO ACCOMPLISH MY DREAMS!".
Poetry kicked me in the balls.
"We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."
-Dead Poets' Society
There are days success means not giving up on whatever it is you believe in. Spit at me, as my dribble is not your dribble, though it is for you to own as much as it is for me to own.
WISHING doesn't do shit.
Locate your hands,
use them.
Locate your hands,
use them.
Day 2 2014 N.Y.C. Poetry Festival
Passion & Happiness
Want to be rebel? Make someone smile. Buy a coffee for the man sitting out in the cold with his spange jar. Help someone who has fallen up, physically or emotionally. Practice empathic listening.
Beware Human Spirit activists and those wishing to better Man. Love like sunrise pipe smoke, educate yourself, learn about the manipulation of you and how to manipulate others. "Why riot?" "Why not?"
Do what you love, cut yourself open, fuck all else, fuck the 1000s of eyes awaiting to cast judgement. Break their damned fishing poles.
Just have fun with it. When the Love is dead, move on.
Do what you love, cut yourself open, fuck all else, fuck the 1000s of eyes awaiting to cast judgement. Break their damned fishing poles.
Just have fun with it. When the Love is dead, move on.
*create twice as much as you consume*
What does nostrovia Mean?
"Nostrovia" is an English mispronunciation of the Russian word "Na Zdorovie" (Naz-dro-vyeh). Na Zdorovie is commonly thought to be a drinking toast, but if you were in a bar full of native Russians and used Na Zdorovie as a toast, they'd laugh at your ignorance.
Na Zdorovie translates to "You are welcome". At some point in the process of this words abduction into the United States, the original definition was misplaced.
Nostrovia is generally now used as slang for "let's get drunk", "let's drink", or "cheers".
Na Zdorovie translates to "You are welcome". At some point in the process of this words abduction into the United States, the original definition was misplaced.
Nostrovia is generally now used as slang for "let's get drunk", "let's drink", or "cheers".
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