Harriet @ Poetry Foundation remarks, “you’ve got to check out Esque Mag Issue 3 … It’s beautiful.” Announcing Esque (click!) For the third issue of esque, REVOLUTIONESQUE, we asked you to tell us about the revolution. We didn’t define what we mean by that. Whether it lives in your home, in the financial district, or the district…
Read more 108 Beads per Rosary + 108 Poets per REVOLUTIONESQUE
Belladonna* Benefit Performance and Auction Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 6:30 pm Location: Hi Art! 227 West 29th Street, 4th Floor (between 7th & 8th) New York, NY 10001 Advanced ticket sales are only $12! At the door, tickets are $20. http://www.belladonnaseries.org/benefit.html The Belladonna* Benefit will showcase a performance by Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye,…
That should actually read, “GIVE THEM SHEEP FOR MY BIRTHDAY!” So I had a blast on my big bold beautiful day yesterday, the day of my birth, August 3, 2011. Loads of items and well wishes and Ana may have created a monster with a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, a wine we’ve thought about since its…
WHETTING EXCERPTS: …In queer poetry, desire blooms, and yes, I may just marry my dog— …Beyond that debate, we remain, in all our queerness, anomalies writing aloud the unimagined territories that language spearheads and explores. They may fear adventure in my world, but I inhabit theirs in multiple ways—and am them. …Queer poets especially locate…
Please don’t take another long drag on your ciggie and nonchalantly claim that the editors of Publisher’s Weekly didn’t know they were selecting books solely by men for their Top 10 Best Books of 2009. I will hurl dragon fire and burn your little house of cards down. One need only peruse the “brief reviews”…
Read more The Weenie Roast – Ingredients? Not How Long, But What’s in It…
CONTEMPORARY QUEER POETS Grow this list – Proliferate! Redistribute! I initially started this list as one for contemporary queer poets, but it has grown to include the living and the dead, the post-poet, the fiction and non-fiction, the bent, the bendable, and more. Thanks to all who’ve contributed so far! Please feel free to add…
Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009 Time: 7:30pm – 10:30pm Location: erika’s loft Street: williamsburg City/Town: South Brooklyn, NY Join me for three great writers: Amy King, Ana Božičević and Jeni Olin– Ana Božičević emigrated to NYC from Croatia in 1997. Her first book, Stars of the Night Commute, will be…
In spite of the dreary economy, LGBT people are being encouraged to raise awareness of their rights and impact in the country by calling in “gay” to work this week, closing down their businesses, refraining from shopping, and instead doing volunteer work. The action, dubbed “Day Without A Gay,” is set for Wednesday, December 10…
STRAIGHT OUTTA JEZEBEL: While I can’t quite do the graphic design work that went into Gay Times‘ man-pussy ad or its “women are all stupid, frightening bitches” ad or even any of its three “get laid more” ads, I can push out a list of talking points like a mofo. So, following are the talking…
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BLACKS LOVE WHITES? AMERICAN CITIZENS LOVE IMMIGRANTS? WHITES LOVE PAKISTANIS? WOMEN LOVE WOMEN? BLACKS LOVE LATINAS? WHITES LOVE BLACKS? OLD LOVES YOUNG? FAMOUS LOVES UNKNOWN? MAN LOVES MAN? HAPPY LOVES DEPRESSIVE? ~~~~~ CIVIL RIGHTS DON’T BELONG TO EVERYONE! JOIN ME IN APPLAUDING PROP 8! [THIS POST IS SARCASTIC FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON’T “GET…
FOU 2 Tony Aarts * Ana Božičević * Heather Christle * Adam Clay * Peter Davis * Denise Duhamel * Adam Fell * Emily Kendal Frey * Brian Henry * Brad Liening * Chris Martin * Clay Matthews * Corey Messler * Danielle Pafunda * Matthew Savoca * Michael Schiavo * Brandon Shimoda * Mathias…
Read more Fou Deux: the fox has churned out an intricate folie a deux. just for you
Love This Woman ~~~~ **** Also, big thanks to Elizabeth Kate Switaj for considering my poem, “Men By The Lips of Women”! **** ~~~~~
I’m not fond of this awesome blog’s name, “Women Against Sarah Palin,” (wish it were “People Against McCain’s Camp,” though that wouldn’t draw as much attention), but I *am* down with the sentiment behind the naming: Just because McCain picked a female running-mate doesn’t instantly mean women will blindly vote for her. Palin’s got some…
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Valzhyna Mort speaks out and who among the angelic blog-reading hordes will listen? Listen! And don’t miss Matvei Yankelevich, Anna Moschovakis, Ryan Murphy and Michael Ball, all youtubed for your eyes and ears. Go now!
The first ‘coming out’ book I ever read was Audre Lorde’s ZAMI: A New Spelling of My Name, billed as a “Biomythography,” a new genre created by Lorde. I read this book, checked out from a library, long before I ever encountered the more often rotated among young lesbians Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown.…
Next month, from Thurs. Sept. 18-Sun. Sept. 21, we’ll be putting on the second annual Welcome to Boog City poetry and music festival. It will feature performances from 49 poets, 13 musical acts, and one theater company over the four days. Among the highlights are: —a night devoted to Durham, N.C. small press minor/american; —a…
Read more SUN, SEPT. 21st @ 3:00 p.m.- Race and Poetry: Integrating the Experimental
He’s also got a new reading series in Brooklyn. Coming up: September 17: Colic + Gardinier + Liu Bring your queer ears forth to hear September’s Uncalled-For poets: DANICA COLIC SUZANNE GARDINIER & TIMOTHY LIU Wednesday September 17 / 7 pm /free DANICA COLIC lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing at Hunter College, where she…
Bozicevic confronts travel and memory and the conventions of sleep (dreams), and while she certainly practices a kind of lucid dreaming, she in no way limits her subjects—a testament to Bozicevic’s organic and pristine construction of not only each poem, but the collection as a whole. Though only thirteen poems long, Document accomplishes what most…
A Night At the Ear Inn Did I mention that my best friend and jazz critic, among other hats like Frank O’Connor scholar, W.B. Yeats aficionado, and friend of the Maxwell’s, Michael Steinman, started up a blog a few months ago? He’s on the move now, road-trekkin, with his lovely lady, Lorna Sass, for a…
The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series is all ready to rumble! By that I mean our reading schedule for the rest of the year has been finalized. Let’s take a peek at July’s line-up but without the pictures that you get to see at The Stain of Poetry blog: July 25th @ 7 p.m.…
That is, another fellow city dweller, poet and Tarpaulin Sky publisher, Christian Peet, jumped the ship of Brooklyn long before I did for gorgeous Vermont and has recently taken up the rickshaw as a means of fighting big oil and making a nickel here and there for supplies. A note from his site, “My best…
Simply gorgeous. I also write briefly about Bonnie “Prince” Billy [aka Will Oldham aka The Palace Brothers] in “Fed You From the Blood of My Nose“. But mostly, you should just listen to the song twelve times. And then go out and sit in the grass with your lover. p.s. I also recently fell in…
In May 2007, Greensburg, Kansas was leveled by one of the largest tornados in U.S. history. Very few structures remained in the aftermath of the deadly EF5 tornado, and the town lost everything. Inspired by the desire of the townspeople to rebuild ‘green,’ Planet Green, along with executive producer Leonardo DiCaprio, is chronicling the rebuilding…
It’s nearly 90 degrees here in North Massapequa today, but we’ve got shade trees and a breeze coming in off the ocean … and lots of poets descending tomorrow for a big Barbecue! It’s time to crack out the wine and beer and fight for your hammock, as Famous Amis does above in his Jersey…
Governor Patterson opened a phone line to determine how much support there is for his directive to recognize all legal same-sex marriages from other states and countries. I just called and it’s really easy and it took under 5 seconds. You call 518.474.8390 and say you support the governor’s directive. The lady who answers the…
AMY KING 