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How did I not know about Eileen Myles? An icon, a feminist, oh, a feminist icon? An activist. A New York person, a person of that city, who can’t make…
Category: Poetry & Poetics
PEOPLE DO REALLY BAD THINGS People do really bad things But I don’t pay attention to most of them I knew that Alex was my real friend When he told…
SQ: I love these, Jen. I’m amazed at how different they are, given the sameness of the type, the basic poem, as a visual from this distance. Can you tell…
MALICE The pot-bellied pigs were racing hard—only they weren’t pigs in the animal sense, they were cops—really really large cops who were racing bottle caps on the backs of stray…
What keeps me coming back to the page is the state of being lost in words. That immersion is humbling in its capacity to remind me my flesh is ordinary,…
I first heard of Vanessa Place and Les Figues in a cab going from JFK to midtown. I was with fellow poet Christan Bok who had much to say about…
Embedded in our current moment is the unique opportunity to interrogate the manner in which we conceive of what it means to read. A materiality that was once self-evident –…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…