Nancy You were my little baby girl And I shared all your fears. Such joy to hold you in my arms And kiss away your tears. But now you’re gone…
Month: October 2008
Frederick Douglass When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth; when it belongs at last to…
Form’s Life: An Exploration of the Works of Bernadette Mayer Story Story, published in 1968 when Mayer was 23, shows evidence of a Steinian attention to the materiality of language;…
As I mentioned earlier, Margaret Christakos was in Montreal to read at the Coach House/Snare book launch last weekend. She closed the show with aplomb, but it was the longer…
One of the most useful powers of the sonnet is its ability to keep a moment, to hold a feeling or experience and turn it around in the light of…
Some said they heard the pegs squeaking in the holes Of the lyre as if the god were setting a text To the music of wooden wheels On a stridulous…
How Poems Works will be posted a little late this week, but it will be worth the wait. Meanwhile did you all see Jason Christie’s excellent reading of Ryan Fitzpatrick,…
Amanda Earl, originally uploaded by johnwmacdonald. BookThugs meet in Toronto to celebrate the launch of all sorts of new and exciting books. Paul Hegedus (In Stereo), Philip Quinn (The SubWay),…
Gertrude Stein, “Reflection on the Atomic Bomb” (1946) They asked me what I thought of the atomic bomb. I said I had not been able to take any interest in…
Ryan Fitzpatrick: This Poetry Seems Like a Good Racket I am uneasy these days about my writing. I’m uneasy about the fact that language is at once a means of…
How Poems Work: “Subjecthood and the Light Verb” by Donato Manciniby a. rawlings It is Tuesday afternoon in August. Like the past few Tuesdays, I visit with Holden F. Levack,…