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rob’s clever substack : Lecture for an Empty Room
For those unaware, I’ve been posting weekly-or-so over at a substack I began back in November, constructed to prompt further thinking into a potential book-length essay, “Lecture for an Empty Room.” I...
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Barbara Tomash, Her Scant State
the history of her marriage and its consequence diedthree years after the grey American dawn of not believinga word she said ____________________________________________________________In life...
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sick day(s) : covid-positive,
taking a sick day or two: unable to move/think: headache/foggy, exhausted/muscle sore; Tuesday mid-afternoon, i fell to earth, (+ yesterday morning tested positive for Covid-19,Christine tested...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Michelle Sinclair
Michelle Sinclair worked as a policy analyst on human rights issues for many years. She studied international development and social work at McGill University, and completed an MFA at Chatham...
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Ongoing notes: early April, 2023: Micah Ballard,
Covid still has me low, so this is all I could get done for today. San Francisco CA: I’m appreciating the opportunity to go through further work by San Francisco (by way of Louisiana) poet and editor...
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Tony Iantosca, Crisis Inquiry
My review of Brooklyn-based writer, poet and educator Tony Iantosca's Crisis Inquiry(Brooklyn NY: ugly duckling presse, 2023) is now up at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Dale Tracy
Dale Tracy is the author of the chapbook The Mystery of Ornament(above/ground press, 2020), the chapbook Celebration Machine (Proper Tales Press, 2018), the chappoem What It Satisfies (Puddles of Sky...
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Chaudiere Books : six questions interview series + National Poetry Month,
In case you haven't been aware, I've been conducting a weekly interview series over at the Chaudiere Books blog for some time now (some one hundred and seventy weeks now, I would say), interviewing a...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Caelan Ernest
Caelan Ernestis a poet and a performer. They are the author of two collections: night mode (2023) and the forthcoming ICONOCLAST (2024), published by Everybody Press. They live in Brooklyn with their...
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Touch the Donkey supplement: new interviews with Brown, Kowalski, Schultz,...
Anticipating the release next week of the thirty-seventh of Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal], why not check out the interviews that have appeared over the past few weeks with contributors to...
View ArticleFour poems for a Midwinter Day
for/after Bernadette Mayer (1945-2022) 1.Love as all transition, flight—a concentrated dashof windowsill, groceries,childcare , this...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Quenton Baker
Quenton Baker is a poet, educator, and Cave Canem fellow. Their current focus is black interiority and the afterlife of slavery. Their work has appeared in The Offing, Jubilat, Vinyl, The Rumpus and...
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dusie : the tuesday poem,
The Tuesday poem is ten years old today, with new poems by more than five hundred different authors since April 9, 2013. For those unaware, I've been curating this weekly poem series over at the dusie...
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Jessica Q. Stark, Buffalo Girl
My mother said when I was born, she was afraid.Women born in the Year of the Tiger are fabled astoo much in their own story. They’re risk-takers in this world, which typically spells feminine ruin.She...
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Kate Siklosi, SELVAGE
my nagypapa was an immigrant and immigrant children without a mother are dangerous. they had settled in a small oil town and he started to build a small house with his own hands. all i know of that...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kevin Sampsell
Kevin Sampsell is the author of a memoir (A Common Pornography), a novel (This Is Between Us), and a collection of collages and poems (I Made an Accident). He lives in Portland, Oregon and runs the...
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Spotlight series #84 : Emmalea Russo
The eighty-fourth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring New York-based poet Emmalea Russo. The first...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Joy Castro
Joy Castro is the award-winning author of the 2023 historical novel One Brilliant Flame, set in the 19th-century Cuban anticolonial émigré community in Key West; Flight Risk, a finalist for a 2022...
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Little Mr. Prose Poem: Selected Poems of Russell Edson, ed. Craig Morgan Teicher
Edson was one of the definitive practitioners of the contemporary American prose poem. Charles Simic, in his beautiful Foreword, says that no one has yet offered a convincing definition of prose...
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today is Lady Aoife's seventh birthday,
Seven. God sakes. [see also:] [remember that time she was born?]
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