Quinn, (Cynthia Q White) Blog Post Six

Quinn identifies herself as a writer. She likes Robert's confliction. She understands that a weekend of designing assignments can make you feel like a student, e.g. Jamie. She likes to freak out when she finds the wrong things (lobster) in the right places (mailbox). Student goes without saying. Quinn, as a poet, is a student. She will spend the morning researching which kinds of glitter are fatal if inhaled. Fatal glitter. So, wait. Quinn's a researcher! She's focusing on writing a book of fun poems. It will be called Pear and Cheeseburger. Hopefully by publishing a book, her career prospects won't be too grim. She will pluck her eyebrows and go on a speaking circuit in which she reads poetry in the voice of Foghorn Leghorn, which is to say, Quinn won't be making a lot of money anytime soon. But she'll be having fun. And this research class has helped her to navigate Virginia Tech's databases and she's consequently found some inspiring books of poetry. For example, Russell Edson's The Clam Theater, in which Quinn found a recipe card for lobster. Quinn got pranked. She loved it. Finding that recipe card in such an apt location made her day. She wrote a poem about the person who put the card in Edson's book. It's not a great poem.