There’s been some new pieces lately so I wanted to refresh this. Mark Doten “The Spider and Salt Hearts: A…
Could somebody smarter than me…
…break down the historical, philosophical and analytic distinction(s) btwn the Judeo-Christian mind-body split and the Platonic distinction between spiritual and…
New from Black Radish Books
I just heard about a new book that looks/sounds promisingly beautiful. Press release below. Announcing the release of Occultations By…
SUPER FLY : Poems inspired by Curtis Mayfield’s epic album
“Probability, like time, is its own dimension.” –Jennifer L. Knox, from “Pimp My Ride” I might have to be preparing…
A Sampler of First Lines from Best of the Web 2010
Nola is splayed on the wooden floor, her skirt hiked up high above her knees, playing jacks. My son’s first-grade…
Open letter to that guy who attended one &NOW conference but gets pissed when he receives an email from &NOW, which is like twice a year, maybe.
Hey you—yes, I admit it. We’re not so professional as to really manage our mailing list in the way you…
Poetry, Language, and the Visual Arts
I’ve been ruminating today on the aphorisms of Jennifer Moxley’s “Fragments of a Broken Poetics” (from Chicago Review, Spring 2010). Worth taking…
Said and Unsaid
Here are two quotes by two foreigners about America (the first obliquely-US box office return is the most important marker…
A Jello Horse and Your Rightful Home
Yesterday I read Matthew Simmons’s A Jello Horse (Publishing Genius, 2009), immediately after finishing Alyssa Knickerbocker’s Your Rightful Home (Flatmancrooked,…
There and Not There: the World Trade Center Towers in Art
Below are three works of art that include, as part of their subjects, the World Trade Center towers. I. This…