Essay: An Excerpt from Lissa Wolsak

An excerpt from An Heuristic Prolusion.  ~ To respond, in making linguistic pavés, to exhilarate transformation, with an art of perceiving movement, within being, within language physiques. And question…can we dispense…

Kate Durbin from Anna Nicole Show

ANNA NICOLE SHOW CNN: Prosecutors presented this video as evidence that Howard K. Stern conspired to keep Anna Nicole Smith in a drug stupor. Stern’s lawyers say Smith was acting…

Kate Durbin: from Ravenous Audience

Kate Durbin: from Ravenous Audience

MARILYN: LEFTOVERS The Clothes a black embroidered handbag     a pearlescent Bakelite clutch     a jewel-encrusted evening bag with a chain strap     a Lucite handbag     a clear bejeweled handbag with an embellished closure      the same bag filled…

Two Poems from Helen Guri

SUBJECTS ON WHICH MY LOVE DOLL COULD CONCEIVABLY HAVE OPINIONS Being secret, like a leg brace from childhood. Not having anything, to eat or worry about. A bus transfer sailing…

The Allen Ginsberg Project: Mind, Mouth and Page (Gertrude Stein)

AG: Yeah, I think we were talking about that at the end of the last sitting here, when somebody asked me – since Williams, what was done, since Williams, what…

Sina Queyras on Lisa Robertson’s Nilling

BY SINA QUEYRAS When I said in an earlier last post that I go to poetry to think, Lisa Robertson was the first poet that came to mind. Hers is a poetry that…

Adrienne Rich on “Easy Poetry”

Career-minded poets, expending thought and energy on producing a “publishable manuscript,” on marketing their wares and their reputations, as young poets are now urged (and even trained) to do, may…

Feminist Boot Camp #92: Learn the Rules of Engagement

Learn to argue. Learn to detect the unconscious rage in seemingly innocent questions and/or opinions. Don’t react to hostile questions, not matter how well-turned out they are. Let the person…

If a poem costs nothing to write I don’t want to read it

MR: Oh, sure. By my early thirties, I think I’d stopped believing I was going to succeed as a poet. It’d been years since I’d had a poem accepted anywhere, and…