October 17, 2012
The doublespeak of texts and subtexts: indicting the found political poem
The found political poem is a sort of chimera, a cross-breeding of two genres in which questions of authorship and ownership—and the fine distinction between them—run amok. One of its […]
August 26, 2012
Theft as art, art as theft: an interview with Austin Kleon
In a 1966 interview with The Paris Review—the same interview that would inspire artist Tom Phillips to first employ the techniques that led him to create A Humument—William S. Burroughs […]
September 6, 2011
Short Takes: Crying and Laughing, or Both
A kind of poetic justice, in which an Ottawa prosecutor’s rhyme helped to convict an impaired driver in court. Plugged into Google Correlate (a tool which lets you free-draw graph […]
August 9, 2010
The Kids Are All Bright
A favorite teacher of mine tipped me early on that there would be people who would tell you never to write about childhood, especially not from the perspective of a […]