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Category Archives: poetics
12 or 20 Questions
In which I participate in rob mclennan’s long-running interview series. Although rob has been prodding me to do this for awhile, I didn’t feel inspired to until Dottie did it. What can I say, peer pressure works.
Corresponding Juvenilia: 1993-1995
Poems from 8th and 9th grade– because I think it’s interesting to see how what one reads affects what one writes. During these Junior High years I liked Emily Dickinson, and I numbered my poems, feeling that if the title … Continue reading
30 Poems in 30 Days: Thoughts on Process
April, once uncomfortably known as National Poetry Month, has been re-branded, much more comfortably, as National Poetry Writing Month. This makes us feel less passive in our minority. The challenge is to write 30 poems in 30 days. For the … Continue reading
Posted in Contemporary Poetry, My Poetry, poetics
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I have something to say and I’m saying it and that is poetry as I need it
“Have something worth telling in the first place.” 1. Brooklyn 2. Elisa
Posted in Contemporary Poetry, poetics
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Women in Poetry (Again)
Since I am currently out of work, I am working on a few much-delayed issues of Foursquare and I am reminded that although Foursquare is not a unique project in the world of poetry magazines, it is still a sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Contemporary Poetry, gender, poetics
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Spell/ing ( ) Bound
.. . . Spell/ing () Bound is a tripartite book, arguably harkening back to the Oulipo tradition,* by Cara Benson, Kai Fierle-Hedrick and Kathrin Schaeppi. I saw it at the Dusie Press reading in New York last month, shuddered at … Continue reading
Dear Reader
- I’ve decided to write single poems for single readers such that writing is publication and the reader I appeal to is the one precise reader who receives the poem. This is partly practical: I don’t have the time or … Continue reading
Posted in My Poetry, poetics, visual poetry
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Slow Poetry
Here. There’s a stack of cool stuff on my desk I want to tell you about, but I don’t have time right now to do it justice.
Posted in New Poetry, poetics
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Reading matter
An interview with my friend, poet Chris Fritton.
Protected: I wrote a poem.
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Posted in My Poetry, poetics
Tagged current projects, Frankfurt School, Jim, New Poetry, Sandra
cop-out post with some opinions on ekphrasis
Two things that are more interesting than what I have to say this morning: Lorna answers the New Year’s meme and Kenny G infiltrates the Poetry Foundation. Also, our dear Mark Lamoureux is looking for ekphrastic poetry from the 20th … Continue reading
Jessica Smith
