Canopic Jar 21 is out and about the virtual world, ready for your visit! P o e t r y Kay McKenzie Cooke Rosemarie Crisafi Jo Hemmant Amy King Greg Kosmicki Nicole Kuwik Cynthia Ruth Lewis Hannah Leah Dana Guthrie Martin Rethabile Masilo P.A. Merrill [from our archives] Dike Okoro Meg Pokrass Ren Powell P…
This Recording Thanks to Jackie Clark for inviting me to participate in the ten part Poets Off Poetry series. My contribution, “Fed You From The Blood of My Nose: A Medley Melodic,” appears under the heading, “In Which Nearly Every Human Knows This Desire.” Lots of links to music you might enjoy, and I hope…
1. Go on and support Small Press Distribution if you have money to spare. My most recent is available now. 2. One speculative equation regarding “How Clinton Won“: “Hillary Clinton won last night by putting together the voting coalition that has held Democratic frontrunners in good stead for 75 years. Take a look at these…
An excerpt from James Baldwin’s essay, “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” (1979): People evolve a language in order to describe and thus control their circumstances, or in order not to be submerged by a reality that they cannot articulate. … What joins all languages, and all men, is the…
An Absolute Must Have I resist reviewing books as I think my view might narrow the reading/rendering for others. In fact, Juliana Spahr’s new book, THE TRANSFORMATION, relates to that notion of languages’ limitations, the ways languages have been limited & eliminated systematically, while she somehow simultaneously attempts to de-limit her own language throughout…
Not long ago while viewing the Société Anonyme: Modernism for America show at The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., Ron Padgett stood before a painting and said something favorable, which in turn prompted me to ask, “What makes this a good painting?” Now mind you, I was asking a man who has viewed thousands of…
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