Awesome woman of the week
The Story of My Accident is Ours by Rachel Levitsky now up on Conjunctions. Levitsky is of course the founder of the belladonna reading series which has hosted very close to 100 kick-ass women in NYC and which I have been very happy to be a part of for the last few years. Under the...
Traffic
Issue Number Two2006-2007ed. Elizabeth Treadwell Okay, I’ve been wanting to post about this but really, I still feel I haven’t had enough time to adequately describe the excellence of this project. My first reaction was Yes, oh Yes! Here’s a fabulous example of what one might accomplish in lieu of blogging. At just over 200...
Elizabeth Bachinsky
You can see and hear Bachinsky read from Curio, published this year with Bookthug. One of the poems she reads is her anagram poem of TS Eliot’s “The Wasteland” titled “Lead the Wants”…
buy nothing day and making meaning
Today is Buy Nothing Day, an annual event and so far I think not one that has made any major mark on our society. Adbusters is amazing. But in a sense it is preaching to the converted. Particularly since those of us who are even aware of it are usually folks who are already fairly...
a real poet
Phew, thought I better get a real poet on here…we were getting a little out there of late, no? Cyberpoets and women… well, meanwhile the poetry mantle gets passed on as most of the power in our society does, from man to man. Here’s Muldoon to bring us back to tradition.
Bigger issues on the day of giving thanks
Part of the reason I am wrapping up Lemon Hound is towfold: one a commitment to my own work, and by that I mean poetry and book projects, but also a desire to turn my attention to some of the larger issues in our world. Issues such as the environment, our air and water, over-development...
winding down
After much consideration, I’ve finally chosen a date to pull the plug on this adventure. Lemon Hound will officially end along with this turbulent year. Hopefully I’ll be able write at least mini-reviews of all those books I have stacked by my ugly orange chair. What’s next? Indeed. What’s next.
nouvelle vague…
a little morning music…and while you’re on coolhunting check out the latest in Brooklyn edginess from Bushwick. Bap took place this summer. Thanks Zzee…
cyberwomen poets, a post in progress
Quickly, quickly, name all the cyberwomen poets you know… Exactly. Well, Stephanie Strickland comes to mind, yes, Stephanie Strickland…and…and…well? Well, here are some ideas for you. Check out Betty Nkomo (a wow) by Young-Hae Chang at poems that go, and then born magazine…and then over at logolalia…thanks to mairead for those links…I can’t help but...
