Joseph Millar is one of my favorite poets, and a faculty member in the MFA program I attended. Today my son, Lincoln turns three and it reminded me of hearing Millar read his poem, “American Wedding” during one of our MFA residencies. It’s a poem about his daughter’s wedding. My son wasn’t born yet at [...]
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On the Occasion of My Son’s 3rd Birthday
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Joseph Millar, poetry on July 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Announcing the launch of MadHat Press with a poetry chapbook competition
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon, Advanced Elvis Course, CAConrad, chapbook, competition, Deviant Propulsion, Factory School Press, Frank Sherlock, MadHat Press, PACE, Philadelphia, PhillySound, poetry, Soft Skull Press, the book of frank, The City Real & Imagined, Wave Books on June 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
MadHat Press is the non-profit imprint arm of the multimedia e-zine, Mad Hatters’ Review and a production of MadHat Arts Inc. MadHat Press seeks to foster the work of writers and poets: explosive, lyrical, passionate, deeply wrought voices that stretch the boundaries of language, narrative and image, vital and enduring literary voices that sing on [...]
A poem for Thursday: “Present Tense,” Harryette Mullen, from Sleeping with the Dictionary.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged harryette mullen, poetry, present tense, sleeping with the dictionary on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Now that my ears are connected to a random answer machine, the wrong brain keeps talking through my hat. Now that I’ve been licked all over by the English tongue, my common law spout is suing for divorce. Now that the Vatican has confessed and the White House has issued an apology, I can forgive [...]
Contemporary Verse Novels: The Anxiety of Reading Poems and Kimiko Hahn’s THE UNBEARABLE HEART
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Contemporary Verse Novels, I hate poetry, Kimiko Hahn, Poems are Confusing, poetry, The Unbearable Heart on April 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »
This book undoes a lot of the anxiety I have as someone who has to read a lot of poetry and has yet to discover more than two or three books of poems that I actually like and would want to read again. Does that sounds shitty and ignorant? I mean it, though. And this [...]
Contemporary Verse Novels: Carson, Saterstrom, Conrad, the Roubauds, Boully, and Ruefle
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 20 lines a day, alix cleo roubaud, Anne Carson, Aureole, autobiography of red, CA Conrad, Carole Maso, Contemporary Verse Novels, Essays, Harry Mathews, Jacques Roubaud, Jenny Boully, Mary Ruefle, Memoir, Novel in Verse, Novels, poetry, prose, Robert Walser, Selah Saterstrom, Speaking to the Rose, The Book of Beginnings and Endings, the book of frank, The Most of It, The Pink Institution on March 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
What is a beginning? What is an ending? What makes a particular grouping of words become a poem or a story or a fiction or a non-fiction? And do these labels, these distinctions, even matter? For anyone who does not know, I’ve been reading and thinking about books that may or may not fit into [...]
New Work for New Devices
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged app, digital media, interface, iPad, iphone, Jason Nelson, poetry on January 26, 2011 | 6 Comments »
At the Consumer Electronics Show a few weeks ago, at least 100 new tablets were revealed. A minority of these were e-readers, including a “Multimedia Novel” by Pandigital that comes preloaded with Barnes and Noble’s Nookbook store. Exciting name, but not such an exciting device other than its under-$300 price tag. With very few exceptions, [...]
Between Blog and Book: Mairéad Byrne’s The Best of (What’s Left Of) Heaven
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blog, commonplace book, Mairéad Byrne, poetry, Publishing Genius, The Best of (What’s Left Of) Heaven on September 13, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Publishing Genius, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9820813-5-8 208 pages A kind of Lydia Davis of the poetry world, Mairéad Byrne is an absolute whiz at the short poem; she excels at the one-line poem, the two-line poem, the one word poem, the brief list, the permutational riff, the conversational aside, the set-up and punchline, the Objectivist observation, [...]
Michael Palmer vs. Michael Palmer: The Mash-Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Company of Moths, Fatal, mash-up, Michael Palmer, poetry, thrillers on July 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In the tradition of Godzilla vs. Mothra… …I give you Michael Palmer vs. Michael Palmer! [Michael Palmer (born May 11, 1943, New York, NY) is a contemporary American poet and translator.] [Michael Palmer, M.D. (born October 9, 1942, Springfield, Mass.) is the author of fifteen novels, often called medical thrillers.] [from Publisher's Weekly: Hieratic, hypnotic, [...]
Video Two Ways.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ballet Mécanique, Mechanical Turk, poetry, Roderick Coover, speakertext, The Theory of Time Here, tool, video, Video Data Bank on January 20, 2010 | 5 Comments »
1. It’s been over a year since I first saw Roderick Coover’s video The Theory of Time Here (there’s a teeny video preview available; click the teeny blinking camcorder icon), created in collaboration with writer Deb Unferth. I still can’t get it out of my head. Footage of London traffic and passersby plays harmony to [...]
“Let us remember…that in the end we go to poetry for one reason…”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christian Wiman, poetry on January 13, 2010 | 25 Comments »
I firmly believe that poetry serves a range of cultural functions and I tend to bristle when someone says otherwise. Enter Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry, and his following statement that I got in the mail yesterday along with information trying to convince me to subscribe to the magazine: Let us remember…that in the end [...]
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#AuthorFail 10: Laura Goldstein
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Um, well, this is embarrassing: if you checked this post this morning between 9 am – 9:26, you would have found an incomplete entry: devoid of this snappy opening, and truncated, it the main text, from its full form. Could it be that #AuthorFail has had its first fail? Would this then equal success. I [...]
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