Over the past few days, in shared taxis and before bed, I have read the first two books in Meg Elison’s Road to Nowhere trilogy which explores the former U.S. in the years after an autoimmune disease devastates the population,…
Category: The Literary World
Why White Women Voted for Trump—And How Literature Can Save Us
All women live with a constant drumbeat of real and threatened violence against us. White women, however, are taught that the worst of that violence comes from men of color and that only the white supremacist patriarchy can save us,…
Je su s Vane
an erasure of this post by Ron Silliman The most blaspheme._________________________________________________It is_____right ____________________________________________________________to make people crazy (literally) _____________to deny _________________________________________________violence The Silliman clan was driven out could not marry disgusting? __________we have seen the murders ____________________the survivors____________________________________________________________famous cowards ______________________________banned _________________________________________________________________________________There…
Sunday Small Stone 101
community written acid lines abdomen and eye who is believed and I am not a part of us orange security light stains grave stones sunset long after Venusrise
Contemporary Poetry
a man murders a murdering man leaves words about the women who wouldn’t love him a poeming man takes the words of a man who murders, conjugates & declines them, videos & transcribes them a vehicle for amity and compassion seeks…
10 Ways of Looking at the Reaction to Mark Edmundson’s “Poetry Slam” in Harper’s Magazine
and other poetsphere kerfuffles Denunciations elicit more responses than nuanced criticism. While at first this seems unfortunate, it reflects a very good thing: that poets are emotionally invested in poetry. When such denunciations repeat familiar complaints, rebuttals are easier (and…