1 Second a Day
1 Second Everyday – Age 30 from Cesar Kuriyama on Vimeo. Fabulous. I love this video.When I teach introduction to poetry I assign my students the task of writing one couplet a day. It sounds easy. It isn’t. They want to write poems. They want to write a complete thing. A couplet, I argue, is...
Zizek: Catastrophic But Not Serious
Can’t put the entire talk here. You need to click on “watch full program” below. Slavoj Zizek: Catastrophic But Not Serious from The Graduate Center, CUNY on FORA.tv
Kristin Prevallet reads Lisa Robertson & Stacy Doris
This was one of the most moving and dynamic readings. Like Julie Patton, Prevallet used the whole room, up into the balcony and down and around the room, shouting out the Robertson and Doris’ poem “The Feast,” which begins “All honour to the anal cavity” and ends “Oh, and thank you for your virginity…” and...
Highlights from Les Figues I’ll Drown My Book
Julie Patton does Marcella Durand’s Pastoral. Pastoral leaf and leaf and leaf and leaf and leaf and branch and leaf and leaf and leaf and leaf and leaf and postcard of greenish sunset and leaf and leaf and leaf and bag and twig and leaf and bee and leaf and leaf and branch and leaf...
