Post Black? 5 Poems and 3 Notes on Culture, Craft and Race
The following piece was presented as “5 Poems and 3 Notes” in the panel “Post Black? Culture, Craft, and Race in Verse” at the 2013 AWP Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.
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National Poetry Month Day 9: “Stone Cold Jane” by Cornelius Eady
“Stone Cold Jane” is one of the tracks from Cornelius Eady’s new chapbook from Kattywompus Press, Book of Hooks. I say tracks because these are as much songs as poems.…
Nick Cave Monday #30: “Heathen Child”
Grinderman announced their breakup about a year ago. But guess what Bad Seeders? Grinderman is performing two sets at Coachella in the coming days. Let’s revisit the first single from…
National Poetry Month Day 8: “The American Dream Visits While I Clean” by Julie Brooks Barbour
The American Dream Visits While I Clean It wasn’t part of me, only something I listened to, like radio music or dialogue on the evening news. I was cleaning the…
National Poetry Month Day 7: “Cafe Space” by James Hoch
Café Space Here comes backwash from apocalypse gamey as last night’s monastery potluck. Did you have the goat bleating from the roof of a floating house, its song as old…
Lit-Link Round-up
Grub Street’s Christopher Castellani’s All This Talk of Love receives a glowing one from the NYTimes. How friendship forms writers: Emily Rapp’s “How I Became the Woman I Am Today.”…
Bad Golf for a Good Cause
826LA presents Mini Golf for Cheaters, a tournament of unfair advantages on Astroturf! If you ever wanted to knock a classy game down a few pegs while supporting one of…
Links I Like
I went through a pretty big Bob Dylan phase. Actually, I never got out of it. It started with Freewheelin and Bringing It All Back Home. Then I liked Another…
Notable Los Angeles: 4/6-4/12
It’s National Poetry Month, which means you can expect some cooler-than-normal poetry events taking place all over the Los Angeles area! Saturday 4/6: Marisa Silver in conversation with David Ulin…
National Poetry Month Day 6: “Swim Lesson No. 3” by Wendy Willis
Swim Lesson No. 3 Syracuse, New York June 2012 I can’t find my bearings in this landlocked country, riverless and briny. Not waterless exactly but curveless and motionless, a chlorophyll…
abu ghraib arias by Phil Metres
Virginia Konchan reviews Phil Metres' abu ghraib arias today in Rumpus Poetry.
Nabil Nahas is Painting With Starfish
Ranging widely from densely textured works on canvas formed with layers of an acrylic and pumice mixture on top of silicon molds to abstract representations of the native olive and…