Jeremy Hawkins

The Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies - M.S. 448

Kenyon College, Attended 1998 - 2002, Class of 2002, Bachelor's Degree, English Literature

Educator and Conspiracy Theorist

I am affilitiated with the group of people steadily gentrifying Fort Greene.

Poems about subways and city parks, walking brooklyn in flip flops, curry, single malts, storytelling, photographia, filmographia, academia, phillipics, classics, music snobbery, mutts, macintosh, recording, aesthetics, bibliophilia, man purses, going upstate and being the only hipster in town, the chinatown bus, my pisans, the Staten Island Ferry, running, amateur moving competitions, dusk, art, discord, goofy hats, dive bars, peptalks, opinions, mixed economies, russification, everything scottish: if it ain't..., Fraoch, translation, rock, roll, summertime in ny, the digerati, the literati, sound, hillwalking, munroes, reminiscing, cuckoldry, mania, threehundred pound gorillas, Sample on Smith St, table service protocol, vino, italia, dance, turtles, tea, irn bru, gaffer tape, roof decks, spinach, literary theory, collaboration, the pacific northwest, tempranillo/rioja, texture, exageration, comraderie, linguistics, revolution, edification, reification, punctuation, olives, scheming.

Homer, Icelandic Sagas, Shakespeare, Conrad, Joyce, Marquez, Camus, Nabakov, Borges, Hemmingway, and poems by: Pound, Eliot, Rilke, Santos, Heaney, Levertov, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Jarrell, Kinsella, MacDiarmid, Rimbaud, Auden, Norman MacCaig.

City of God, Russian Ark, Dirty Pretty Things, Get Carter, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Lawrence of Arabia, Glengary Glenross, Bridge on the River Kwai, Killing Zoe, Sexy Beast, and of course, Cabin Boy

Explosions in the Sky, Slint, Mogwai, The Party of Helicopters, The Forms, Oxes, Do Make Say Think, Drive Like Jehu, Rachels, D-Plan, ATDI, Shellac, Don Caballero, Fairweather (VA), Radiohead, The Quarterhorse, the Mars Volta, and anything else that'll sound cool.

Father Ted, GI Joe, Conan O'Brien, Chapelle's Show, Kids in the Hall, and the knife show on QVC.

Cancer

Easily moved. Difficult to entertain. Comfortable in grey. Often in navy. Dances with fools. Sucker for dancers. Sucker for even a song. Shorter than most. Bigger than Segues. Big into segues between fact and fiction. Fictional hero. Hero to some. Some heroes fall short of the mark. Marked with success. Dogged with doubt. Doubtful of truth. True to a friend. Friend to many. Many friends fall short with their art. Art is a passion. Passionate lover. Making love is the art of passion. In love with the City. Came to the City for love. Lost love in the city. In the City of lost love. Lost direction. Lost money. Owe money to some. Owe something forever. Forever grateful. Grateful for strength. Strength of mind. Mindful of ego. Egomaniacal to a few. Few regrets. Regretful of waste. Wasted time is a constant. Time is a commodity. Time ought never be wasted. Ought to work harder. Work is a means. All work means little to monarchs. Little monarch. So little tact. Or tact to a T! Drinks tea with a smile. Smile that gleams. Gleaming the best. Best friend to one. One that has spirit. A spirited speaker. Speaks with conviction. Never convicted. Many convictions. Many more worries where that came from. Worries the pages. Page after page. After critique. Always a critic. Never critiqued. Never so scared. Scared by dreams. Dreaming of progress. Progressive beliefs. Believes in fate. Fated to struggle. Struggling for answers. The answer to the omnipresent norm. Normally found thinking. Thinking of the future. The future for someone. Someone worth knowing. Knows a good time. Good as a mimic. Possessed by mimicry. Weighted by possession. Concerned with weight. Endless concern. Focused to the end.

David Bowie. Noam Chomsky. Stanley Kunitz. Daisy Fuentes. Ben Kingsley. Sophia Coppola. W.S. Merwin. Sir Ian McKellen. Adrienne Rich. P.T. Anderson. Wes Anderson. Spike Jonze. Sherod Santos. Sting. Sophie Marceau. Seamus Heaney. Bono. Galway Kinnell. Anne Carson. Stephen Cohn. Mos Def. Jennifer Esposito. Ewan MacGregor. Lyrics Born. Kelly Brook. Sarah Jones. Jay Novacek. Pharrell. Albert Goldbarth. Matt Hasselbeck. Charles Kennedy. Jacques Chirac. Kylie Minogue. Saddam Hussein. Kurt Vonnegut. Q-Tip. Jimmy Carter. Vast Aire. Bill Clinton. Colin Powell. Paulo Freire. Salman Rushdie. Aleksander Hemon. Milan Kundera. Terry Eagleton. Elisha Cuthbert. Ted Hughes. Mia Hamm. Alan Shearer. Rob Crowe. Pele. Thom Yorke. Graham Norton. Marisa Tomei (now spelled correctly). Monica Belluci. Maria Grazia Cucinotta.