July 26, 2017
NSFW: On “Hysterical Literature,” Leaves of Grass, and the Sexy Reading Movement
Somewhere in the foggy realm between performance art and porno, on a YouTube channel where a poem drives up page views, a woman reads aloud from a paperback book. She […]
June 3, 2017
Thea Brown’s “Principia” (Poetry in Public: Part IV)
Earlier this year, I spent some time thinking about the interplay between hearing poets read aloud (the experience of voice and embodied presence as event) and encountering their work on […]
March 9, 2017
Poetry in Public: Or, Why I Leave the House
I recently returned to the Amy Clampitt House, where I’m in residence through June, after a multi-leg trip to Baltimore and Louisville. In Baltimore, I was reading for the Enoch […]