“Probability, like time, is its own dimension.” –Jennifer L. Knox, from “Pimp My Ride” I might have to be preparing…
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…
John Yau’s Exhibits (2010)
Exhibits by John Yau Letter Machine Editions ISBN: 978-0-9815227-6-0 22 pages $10 The latest offering from Letter Machine Editions —…
A Sentence about a Sentence I Love
With so many worthy sentences in the realm of the sayable, with so many great sentences already loved and savored…
A Mad Tea-Party: An Essay-Collage
[The following is a talk I gave at Buzzer Thirty in Queens for an exhibition called “…no right to assume…
Assorted Notes on (or a Kind of Review of) Shya Scanlon’s In this alone impulse, (Noemi Press, 2009)
The fifth piece of this collection, “Go beside, and speak,” begins: “I am from I have been thinking. I am…
Buzzer Thirty calls on Artists and writers to respond ….no right to assume otherwise
Below is an important call for work from Alex and Rob at the Queens-based art organization Buzzer Thirty. I hope that you…
“Multiplex America” & the Notion of Audience
In this month’s issue of The Brooklyn Rail, poet and art critic John Yau has an entertaining and thought provoking…
John Ashbery’s PLANISPHERE (Ecco, 2009)
A is for “ASHBERY”—which, in large red capital letters, is by far the most prominent word on the cover of…
“Let us remember…that in the end we go to poetry for one reason…”
I firmly believe that poetry serves a range of cultural functions and I tend to bristle when someone says otherwise.…