teenage angst – Orangette https://orangette.net Wed, 16 Dec 2015 06:59:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 October 23 https://orangette.net/2015/10/october-23/ https://orangette.net/2015/10/october-23/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2015 17:24:00 +0000 Last night I got to spend some time with my friend Sam. We hadn’t hung out, just the two of us, for a while – maybe not since June was born, if I really think about it. Sometime in the next month, Sam will become a dad. We’ve somehow been friends for nearly a decade. When I got into his car last night, he had R.E.M.’s Out of Time in the CD player. “Texarkana” was on. We got stuck in traffic, because it was rush hour in Seattle, but it was okay, because we were talking about being kids listening to R.E.M., Automatic for the People especially, and all the Big Feelings we were just starting to know then, feelings set…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2015/10/october-23/feed/ 25 I got to go back https://orangette.net/2014/11/i-got-to-go-back/ https://orangette.net/2014/11/i-got-to-go-back/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2014 23:40:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/i-got-to-go-back The first time I went to the Oklahoma Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain was in the summer of 1995, a few months after a fire destroyed the lodge, its rooms and dining hall and library. I was sixteen, one of about a dozen high school students from across the state who’d been accepted to the summer program in poetry.  Quartz Mountain is beautiful, an isolated chain of red crags along a lake in the southwest part of the state, but my introduction wasn’t poetic: because the library was gone, our class met in a trailer, with a limping air conditioner, folding tables, and a couple of electric typewriters that we shared. But our teacher was the poet Peter Fortunato, brought…

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