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…
Category: Poetry & Poetics
So Pound, being a great scholar, went to find all the parallels in history where there was a transition from an official, or archaic, or classical, prosody and tongue and…
from “aquifers,” two Gathering is important because the human voice taps our agricultural roots and constructs a subdivision of voice that affects the heart of our supplies. Any kind of…
–Eva Hesse’s Materials As Woolf said, words fail us. Words fail us because they are so common. Because they have been the mouths of generations before us. And now around…
She let her poem go. It slid down the blue wave into the sandbox of the afternoon. It fraternized on the street with young people drinking wine and sporting revolutionary…
Latest post over at Harriet. I find myself constantly wanting to apologize for not writing a big important boy novel about ideas, or a funny novel about a whimsical girl.…
In which I recount reading Stein at Poetry Foundation and upon reflection, do so with altogether too many “I”s. Ick. Bad Poet. Bad. For the record, here is how I…
One of my central questions then, is can we really posit a binary that asserts a lyric impulse, or lyric creativity as opposed to what might be termed non-lyric, or…
Making art from art has never been more exciting. Or, perhaps we just have so much to work with. And it seems to me that what conceptual art/writing does best…
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…