j/j: Do you feel that there is benefit in working with apparitions and/or ghosts in your pages? If so, how…
Creative Engagement with Hugh Behm-Steinberg and Mary Behm-Steinberg’s The Opposite of Work (Jackleg Press, 2013)
A review in two. It is not really diptych (not the result of hinged oppositions) when a conductor conducts in…
Creative Engagement with Kristen Stone’s Domestication Handbook (Rogue Factorial, 2012)
Domestication is defined as the process (either unconscious or methodical) by which certain groups of animals are altered (due to…
Creative Engagement with Kari Larsen’s The Black Telephone (Unthinkable Creatures, 2012)
When I was young I played telephone too! The game is fun but also an enigma in regard to…
Creative Engagement with Liz Latty’s Split (Unthinkable Creatures, 2012)
Latty’s little sweet ‘Unthinkable Creature’ begins with a simultaneous dedication to “my mother” and “the missing.” We are brought…
Creative Engagement with Kate Durbin’s The Ravenous Audience (Black Goat/ Akashic Books, 2009)
Lately I have been obsessing over feminist reframes of historical events and fairy tales. Part of this obsession is rooted…
Creative Engagement with Kim Vodicka’s Aesthesia Balderdash (Trembling Pillow, 2012)
Chock-full like Joyelle Mcsweeney’s Percussion Grenade or Roxanne Carter’s How I Taught My Dress to Act, Vodicka’s Aesthesia Balderdash feels…
Creative Engagement with Lonely Christopher’s Crush Dream (Radioactive Moat, 2012)
Lonely Christopher states that his new book Crush Dream is the second installment in a trilogy of books titled The…
Creative Engagement with Min Jung Oh’s Body in a hydrophilic Frame (Monkey Puzzle Press, 2012)
“This is my house. You may enter through any of the three doors.” Part memoir, part miasma…
Creative Engagement with Steve Dalachinsky’s Trust Fund Babies and Phenomena of Interference (Unlikely Books, 2011)
Dalachinsky’s Unlikely Books double-chap Trust Fund Babies/ Phenomena of Interference is inherently inclusive of. Ripe and rife with sudden appearances…