February 3, 2017
Poetry as Air Traffic Control, by Shao John Thorpe (1984)
Thorpe Air Traffic Control2
February 3, 2017
The Community of The Curriculum of the Soul, by Joanne Kyger
Kyger - The Community of THE CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL
November 30, 2016
Color at the Mercy of Light, by Benjamin Hollander
One of Ben Hollander's last pieces, on whiteness and color:
November 4, 2016
Why Don’t More Women Contribute to Websites Like Dispatches?, by Meredith Quartermain
Twice in the last couple of weeks I’ve been asked by male editors to help them get more women contributing to their projects. Eighty percent of…
November 3, 2016
A View from Iceland: an Interview with Eríkur Õrn Norðdahl, by Linh Dinh
A View from Iceland-An Interview with Eirikur Orn Norddahl--Linh Dinh (1)
October 9, 2016
What We Stand On: 3 Progressive Platform Planks (as of Sept. 18, 2016), by Andrew DuBois
What We Stand On: 3 Progressive Platform Planks (as of Sept. 18, 2016) 1. Abortion Must Stay Legal This is non-negotiable. “Women have a right to…
June 14, 2016
Charles Olson and Finding One’s Place, by Joe Safdie – A lecture given at the Gloucester Writers’ Center June 1, 2016
“I’m a cosmopolitan,” said my friend Jerry Rothenberg, when I told him the title of this lecture; “I’m not sure I want to find my place.” I remember…
June 1, 2016
Charles, Frances, Ralph, and me, by Sharon Thesen
The recent fracas that followed an audience “question” about how Black Mountain College could call itself progressive when it was patriarchal,…
June 1, 2016
Truth is that which flees, poetry is never where you look for it, by Eric Gelsinger
Against my own intentions, I wrote you all something. Depending on your reading habits, it may prove long for an email in spite of its fundamentally…
May 14, 2016
Maud / Olson & Me, by André Spears
In anticipation of the “official launch” of the Maud / Olson Library in Gloucester in the late spring of 2016, I’ve been asked by friends in and…
May 14, 2016
A Light From the Ground, by Ferreira Gullar – tr. Chris Daniels
Gullar tr Daniels A LIGHT FROM THE GROUND
April 15, 2016
Olson and Melancholy, by Donald Wellman
When I was a boy, I held a melancholy conception of poetry. In my neighborhood, most verse was found on tombstones. I’d walk the main road of my…
April 11, 2016
Of Etho-, Ethno- and Eco-poetics, by Tyrone Williams
The following piece was delivered as a talk on May 25, 2010 at Ecopoetical Futures: A Panel with Marcella Durand, Brenda Iijima, Ted Mathys…
April 1, 2016
No Avant-Garde: Notes toward a Left Front of the Arts, by Kent Johnson
1. I want to start in reiterative way, quoting a substantial extract from something that appeared almost exactly ten years back. I believe the…