Wow. Great idea. I’ve seen variations on this theme before: images projected onto strange objects. In this case however, both the images and objects were more pleasing than usual. There…
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A heartening week for environmental news. Sweden vowing to be oil-free in 15 years has got to have major implications, no? You have to think of it as a tipping…
This was a great reading. The first time I’ve had the pleasure of hearing Carla Harryman after all these years of reading her. And worth the wait. She read from…
I write to make a statement of presence in language. In order for the alive to win out.Writing can be done only in a body to body encounter with language,…
Apologies for the increasingly random posts. For some reason deadlines seem like magnets for other deadlines which seem like magnets for upstart combustions and implosion of various natures, expenses and…
More bp Nichol on the U Penn site: bp Nichol Audio Archive, ed. Lori Emerson This is great news. But someone, please, create a similar site dedicated to Canadian poets…
Ah, reverie. This energy I find in the most unexpected places–it need not be for hills and lonely streams, just as lonely as Manhattan’s sewers, some 600 miles of them…
A mother and son with no front teethTwo slices of squished pizzaOne man without legsTwo babies in red capsOne man with seven facial piercingsThe tail of an animalToo many discarded…
I wasn’t surprised by Silliman’s recent post about the ever-declining number of posts on the Poetics Listserv, probably partly due to a shift in single-voiced blogs–upwards of 700 listed on…
Hidamari no tami arrived today from a friend in San Fransisco. After much pensive interaction with this objet, I began to feel a little like King Kong poking at Fay…
Happy Hanukka! Hear the blessing for the lighting of the candles here. Slideshow of Christmas Eve in the city here.
Christmas trees on Montague Street. Many of the tree salesmen are young men from Quebec who come to New York for the season, sleeping in their cars for the three…