As posted last week, I heard Jen Benka read at “Battle Hill”, the Brooklyn Reading Series located on Smith Street, at Bar Below–a bar in the basement of the restaurant…
Month: January 2006
A mother and son with no front teethTwo slices of squished pizzaOne man without legsTwo babies in red capsOne man with seven facial piercingsThe tail of an animalToo many discarded…
Tomorrow Night: Two Jordan Davis EventsTHE MILLION POEMS SHOW Wednesday, January 116:30 pmBowery Poetry Club308 Bowery212.614.0505http://www.bowerypoetry.com and then 8 pmJordan Davis & Susan WheelerThe Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church131…
I wasn’t surprised by Silliman’s recent post about the ever-declining number of posts on the Poetics Listserv, probably partly due to a shift in single-voiced blogs–upwards of 700 listed on…
Nu Shu: The Secret Language of Women* Hey you guys, Shut up! From sight progress by Zang Er Translated from Chinese with Rachel Levitsky *NuShu literally translated as ‘female script’…
Sporadic posts due to overwhelming deadlines, but I’ve been reading Perloff’s 21st-Century Modernism: The “New” Poetics, the introduction to which is reprinted here. Lots of ideas, but loved this quote:…