March 24, 2018
American Sonnets (Part XVII: An American Sonnet by Any Other Name)
[Continued from “American Sonnets (Part XVI: ‘What’s up ahead / which is resistance’)”] In the “Brief Glossary of Forms and Other Terms” at the end of David Lehman’s Ecstatic Occasions, […]
March 23, 2018
The Legacy of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Part One
All writers who play with form that have come since are indebted to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, often without even knowing it. I’m hoping to help out with the […]
March 20, 2018
The Writer’s Labyrinth
All things would be visibly connected if one could discover at a single glance and in its totality the tracings of an Ariadne’s thread leading thought into its own labyrinth. […]
March 14, 2018
Poeta, You Resist
Author’s Note: The following was read at the Women of Resistance book launch last night, March 13th, 2018, at Strand Bookstore in NYC. I wanted to write a piece that incorporated the […]
March 2, 2018
Mix-Tape IV: On Sympathetic Werewolves, Transformations & Tampa
Last year, I wrote about the challenges of trying to have meaningful conversations in such a public, frantic-paced space like AWP. This year, I’m looking forward to my time in […]
February 28, 2018
Anyway What’s Left Of These Two Worlds Collided
I I was standing You were there Two worlds collided And they could never tear us apart —“Never Tear Us Apart,” INXS A year ago, when we first met, you […]
February 25, 2018
“At last you’re tired of this elderly world:” Towards a New Judaism through Poetry
We harness ourselves over and over wherever hope is a yellow shore. —“Nomad,” Robin Beth Schaer Decades later, no, I still can’t let it go: that Rosh Hashanah my […]
February 22, 2018
Flâneur/Flâneuse: The Werewolf Roaming the Social Wilderness
According to its dictionary definition, a flâneur is little more than a loiterer, but to thinkers such as Walter Benjamin and Charles Baudelaire this figure plays the role of a […]
February 19, 2018
American Sonnets (Part XVI: “what’s up ahead / which is resistance”)
[Continued from: “American Sonnets (Part XV: Some Sonnets)”] Ashbery’s second book The Tennis Court Oath, published in 1962, contained “Two Sonnets” too—directly after “America” and a few poems removed from “‘They Dream […]
February 16, 2018
American Sonnets (Part XV: Some Sonnets)
[Continued from “American Sonnets (Part XIV: Stein’s Sonnet)”] I’m going by memory and intuition here in tracing some kind of history of the formally subversive American sonnet – I hope […]
February 14, 2018
On Being an “Annoying Poet Girl” and “Art Monster”
As you might imagine, there was a comical symmetry when I, an often irritating female poet, watched the movie Adult World about . . . an often irritating female poet. […]
February 12, 2018
American Sonnets (Part XIV: Stein’s Sonnet)
[Continued from “American Sonnets (Part XIII: The Hinges)”] In my last post, I thought a bit about how Gertrude Stein first opened up (or rather, unhinged) some of the doors […]