June 20, 2019
Repetition Is Political: On Walking Alone, “I Have a Dream,” and Morgan Parker
In 2016, I attended a weeknight concert at the Showbox in Downtown Seattle that got me thinking about walking as a political act. The headliner that night was riot grrrl […]
January 19, 2018
American Sonnets (Part XI: Insistence)
[Continued from “American Sonnets (Part X: Box, Box, Boxes, Boxes In)”] In addition to the overlapping concerns of form and content I began to consider in the previous post, Stein’s […]
April 4, 2017
Poetry In Public III: Deborah Bernhardt and Repetition
In the notes on “Genesis I” in Jerome Rothenberg’s Technicians of the Sacred, he writes: What’s of interest here isn’t the matter of the myth but the power of repetition & […]
March 29, 2017
Poetry In Public II: Ishion Hutchinson and Repetition
While poetry on the page is certainly a temporal experience, I feel the poem as it exists in time most intensely when hearing poetry performed or simply reading it out […]
January 2, 2012
The Art that Bears Repeating
Entertaining toddlers is easy. It’s the same damned thing over and over again. Within that framework of repetition, and the expectation it generates and satisfies, you can vary things how […]