Hi Millicent,
This is a great article, hurray and congrats!
Rockets, Geoffrey
BlazeVOX12, Springish 2012, an online journal
http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/journal/
BlazeVOX Rocks!
On 6/7/12 8:38 PM, "Millicent Accardi" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Greetings,
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> Here's my latest story/interview
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> Carlo Matos, Poet AND MMA Cage Fighter!
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> Read all about him in This Magnificent Life (Aus)
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> http://www.thismagnificentlife.com.au/magazine.php?pid=art#more
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> Q: How does MMA cage fighting, the most brutal sport around inform and affect
> your poetry and life?
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> MMA is the thing that makes my life tenable. When I train, I get rid of all
> the stress. I get to do something that requires a great deal of focus and
> mental acuity but has nothing at all to do with words or ideas. It clears my
> mind and makes me a better teacher, husband, and most importantly, dad. My
> fighters all think I'm a mellow guy, which is hilarious because anyone who
> knew me before I did MMA would have a very different response. Recently,
> however, I have been interested in writing about MMA. It's actually much
> harder than I thought. Again, I'm not doing non-fiction pieces. But, my new
> manuscript actually has a character who is an MMA fighter and so you get some
> musings and some scenes about it and about fighting. But it certainly isn't -
> at least thus far - a good subject matter for my poetry.
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> Thanks
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