belladonna Tuesday: Melissa Buzzeo, Laura Elrick and Myung Mi Kim

Amazing reading last night at Dixon Place. Not a seat left in the house when the readings started. Melissa Buzzeo’s body/language text, a polyvocal performance piece by Laura Elrick, and…

More Meat, this time in Brooklyn

Mike Geno, John Wolfer, Josh GoldsteinAt The Gallery/Gallery Thean UN-profitable Internet/window gallerythe windows are located @343 Smith Street Brooklyn, NYopen 24/7/365

Brokeback marriages

Didn’t Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville West make faux marriage seem like jet-setting? Oh, right, they were actually both gay, not just one of them… The New York Times looks…

Overheard Dialogue of the Week

Why are some wars good? Because they’re for the right reasons. That one was for the right reasons. This one isn’t. What is this one for? This one is because…

Yale Review on Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets

I’m not one to preen, but today’s news prompts such a post. Apparently the Yale Review is calling Open Field the most important anthology of the year… I’m just a…

Rachel Whiteread at Luhring Augustine

Why is Rachel Whiteread so compelling? Is it the purity of vision? The clean lines? Is it the way she physicalizes negative space? How she sees the potential of nothing?…