September 12, 2012
Touching with the eye, seeing with the hand: erasure as reading experience
The term “erasure,” when used to describe a poetic technique, might be a kind of misnomer. To erase something is to “rub out or remove” it, according to the Oxford […]
July 6, 2011
Materials Wednesday: are belong to us
Contrary to those who believe that the Internet is slowly but surely murdering the written word, I feel like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, forums, and all the rest are a significantly […]
June 18, 2010
Bringing the Dream Space into the Waking Life
I woke this morning from a dream of reading. I was reading a long poem, rambling and prose-like, its meaning fractured. The poem had a very specific form in terms […]
May 21, 2010
Summer Reading Stack
When I was a kid, I knew summer vacation had truly begun when my mom piled us into the fake-wood-paneled station wagon and drove us to the local library. I’d […]