Interrogating Language: Carlos Andrés Gómez’s Fractures
Language enacts violence through manipulation.
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Posts Tagged: nuyorican poet’s cafe
The Rumpus Interview with Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles on recording her new poetry record Aloha/irish trees, the relationship between poetry and comedy, and finding safety in social media.
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The Rumpus Interview with Erik Kennedy
Poet Erik Kennedy discusses literary community and his formative years as a young writer in New Jersey, and shares two new prose poems.
...more“What if poetry isn’t enough?” – Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange, the poet, author and playwright who is mostly known for her play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” is at it again with, “Lost in Language and Sound: Or How I Found My Way to the Arts,” which had its first reading at Nuyorican Poets Café a couple […]
...moreBob Holman’s Most Poetic NYC Spots
Bob Holman, one of the few living poets of the NYC beat poetry era, former co-director of the Nuyorican Poets Café and founder of the Bowery Poetry Club, has curated a list of NYC’s most “poetic” places for the New York Post. And don’t worry, old fans of the Bowery Poetry Club, the venue is […]
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