- Don’t Refuse to Breathe: A discussion of Frank O’Hara: “Song (Is it dirty)” & “Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)”
(Wed, Jun 28, 2023)
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- The Whole World Smiles: A discussion of John Giorno’s “Everyone Is a Complete Disappointment”
(Mon, May 22, 2023)
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- Present Plans Succeed: A discussion of Dodie Bellamy’s “Vomit Journal”
(Mon, Apr 17, 2023)
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- Woot of the Century: A discussion of “Welter” and “Static” by Douglas Kearney
(Fri, Mar 17, 2023)
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- Rhetorical Happenings: A discussion of Hoa Nguyen, “Long Light.”
(Fri, Feb 24, 2023)
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- Nothing Made of Ink: A discussion of seven poems by Lisa Fishman
(Wed, Jan 11, 2023)
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- Untranslatable: A discussion of Armand Schwerner’s “Tablet 25” & “‘daddy, can you staple these two stars together to make an airplane?’”
(Thu, Dec 22, 2022)
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- Downgraded to Scribble: A discussion of four poems from Dead Winter by Matvei Yankelevich
(Fri, Nov 25, 2022)
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- Paw Mouthings: A discussion of Maggie O’Sullivan’s “Hill Figures” and “To Our Own Day”
(Mon, Oct 31, 2022)
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- Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery
(Wed, Sep 28, 2022)
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- Composition of Life, as Life: A discussion of Joan Retallack’s The Poethical Wager (a several-page excerpt)
(Fri, Aug 26, 2022)
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- Girls in the Supply Chain: A discussion of Sawako Nakayasu’s book Some Girls Walk into the Country Where They Are From
(Mon, Jul 25, 2022)
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- When a Name Falls from a Face: A discussion of a selection from Divya Victor’s book Curb
(Wed, Jun 15, 2022)
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- Trance of Language: A discussion of “Sleeping with the Dictionary” & “Dim Lady” from Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen
(Mon, May 23, 2022)
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- Teach Us Love: A discussion of “Language” and “The Anatomy of Monotony” by Eugene Ostachevsky
(Fri, Apr 22, 2022)
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- Better To Lose & Win: A discussion of Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters
(Mon, Mar 14, 2022)
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- Far in Toward the Far End: A discussion of George Quasha’s “preverbs.”
(Fri, Feb 11, 2022)
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- Hot and Cold: A discussion of Jayne Cortez’s “She Got He Got”
(Fri, Jan 14, 2022)
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- Must It Ring True: A discussion of Myung Mi Kim’s “And Sing We”
(Wed, Dec 22, 2021)
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- Coup Created by Our Thoughts: A discussion of “Colliding and Not Colliding at the Same Time” by Cecilia Vicuña
(Wed, Nov 24, 2021)
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- Punch Fascists: A discussion of “Yes I Do Want to Punch” by Stephen Collis
(Mon, Oct 18, 2021)
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- As Words Label Space: A discussion of Leslie Scalapino’s “‘Can’t’ is ’Night’”
(Mon, Sep 27, 2021)
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- Perilous Bodies: A discussion of “Steveston, B.C.” by Daphne Marlatt
(Fri, Aug 27, 2021)
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- In My Rotting Place: A discussion of “Morning, Morning” & “No Deposit, No Return" by Tuli Kupferberg
(Mon, Jul 26, 2021)
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- This Unwitting Monument: A discussion of two poems from Sarah Dowling’s book Entering Sappho
(Thu, Jun 17, 2021)
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- Biologically Speaking: A discussion of “Love Is Not All” and “I Shall Forget You Presently” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
(Fri, May 14, 2021)
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- Adore Adore: A discussion of “Dada Lama” and “A Small Song That Is His” by bpNichol
(Thu, Apr 22, 2021)
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- With a Little String & a Sharp Stone: A discussion of “Suicide” by Bob Kaufman
(Wed, Mar 10, 2021)
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- A Way to Haunt Me: A discussion of “It All over My Face?” by Kevin Killian
(Wed, Feb 17, 2021)
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- A Way to Haunt Me: A discussion of “It All over My Face?” by Kevin Killian
(Wed, Feb 17, 2021)
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- Damned Fruitflies: A discussion of “With Shelter Gone” by Steve Dalachinsky
(Mon, Jan 25, 2021)
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- Passion Shields Its Servants: A discussion of “Souvenir of the Manassah Ball” by Lorenzo Thomas
(Wed, Dec 23, 2020)
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- Promise To Go On: A discussion of “The Similitude of This Great Flower” by Elizabeth Willis
(Wed, Nov 25, 2020)
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- Rousing Earth to Excel: A discussion of “Arriving” by Daphne Marlatt
(Fri, Oct 23, 2020)
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- Word for Word: A discussion of “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain” by Wallace Stevens.
(Fri, Sep 25, 2020)
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- That’s Right: A discussion of Eileen Myles’s “Writing” and “Mount St. Helens”
(Wed, Aug 26, 2020)
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- Ominous Pre-tingling: A discussion of “MJ Fan Letter” and “RSVP” by Terrance Hayes
(Fri, Jul 24, 2020)
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- Find Me the Rage: A discussion of “Negus” by Kamau Brathwaite
(Wed, Jun 24, 2020)
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- A Word For Me: A discussion of “Should You Find Me” by Erica Hunt
(Wed, May 27, 2020)
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- Begin to Awaken: A discussion of “By the road to the contagious hospital” by William Carlos Williams
(Fri, Apr 24, 2020)
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- The Gaps I Mean: A discussion of “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost
(Fri, Mar 27, 2020)
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- Knots of a Woman: A discussion of A Swarm of Bees in High Court by Tonya Foster
(Thu, Feb 20, 2020)
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- Mammal Patriot: A discussion of Ghost Tantras by Michael McClure
(Wed, Jan 22, 2020)
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- Beside the Mind: A discussion of Clairvoyant Journal by Hannah Weiner
(Fri, Dec 20, 2019)
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- These Squiggles: A discussion of “As if the Trees by Their Very Roots Had Hold of Us” by Charles Bernstein
(Fri, Nov 22, 2019)
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- September 1941: A discussion of “Memory Tree” by Rosmarie Waldrop
(Mon, Oct 28, 2019)
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- The Republic of Space: A discussion of “The Blue Stairs” by Barbara Guest
(Fri, Sep 27, 2019)
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- Worker’s Tanka: A discussion of six tankas (2 each) by three worker poets, Christine Yvette Lewis, Lorraine Garnett and Davidson Garrett
(Tue, Aug 27, 2019)
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- Written in Water: A discussion of Bluets by Maggie Nelson
(Fri, Jul 19, 2019)
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- Laying Poems Away: A discussion of “The Ambition Bird” by Anne Sexton
(Fri, Jun 21, 2019)
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- Saw the Lie: A discussion of three short poems in “SKY WRI TEI NGS” by Nasser Hussain
(Fri, May 17, 2019)
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- Hadbeen Variety: A discussion of “Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake” by John Cage
(Wed, Apr 24, 2019)
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- Slowing the Rate of Perception: A discussion of “Hello, the Roses” by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
(Wed, Mar 20, 2019)
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- Flesh Ekes Ink: A discussion of Divya Victor’s “W Is for Walt Whitman’s Soul” from her book Kith.
(Wed, Feb 20, 2019)
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- Light filtering through: A discussion of G. Maria Hindmarch's “Kitsilano”.
(Wed, Jan 16, 2019)
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- Filter, Impose, Trespass: A discussion of Rachel Zolf’s Human Resources.
(Wed, Dec 19, 2018)
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- Not Detainable: A discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Riot”
(Fri, Nov 16, 2018)
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- The After-Hell: A discussion of Sylvia Plath's poem “The Stones”
(Wed, Oct 17, 2018)
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- Of Beautiful Tangents: A discussion of two poems from Perfect Villagers by Sueyeun Juliette Lee
(Thu, Sep 20, 2018)
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- Boring in a Different Way: A discussion of John Ashbery's “The Short Answer”
(Tue, Aug 21, 2018)
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- Something in the Way: A discussion of Amiri Baraka’s “Something in the Way of Things (In Town)”
(Wed, Jul 25, 2018)
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- Fallout from Cooling: A discussion of three poems from Erica Baum
(Wed, Jun 13, 2018)
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- Our Endless Ear: A discussion of Jack Kerouac’s “Old Angel Midnight”
(Wed, May 16, 2018)
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- Bugging the Circles: A discussion of David Antin’s “War”
(Fri, Apr 13, 2018)
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- Insurrection Is Value: A discussion of Sean Bonney’s “Happiness”
(Fri, Mar 9, 2018)
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- This Corner of the Diaspora: A discussion of Jerome Rothenberg’s “Galician Nights” (a section of Poland/1931)
(Fri, Feb 16, 2018)
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- World Without Sequence: A discussion of Ann Lauterbach's poem “Under the Sign”
(Thu, Jan 18, 2018)
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- Nothing To Say: A discussion of three poems by Fatemeh Shams
(Thu, Dec 14, 2017)
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- Question Therefore the Age: A discussion of M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!
(Fri, Nov 17, 2017)
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- The Dark Containers: A discussion of Larissa Lai’s “Nascent Fashion”
(Fri, Oct 13, 2017)
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- Images, Mon Ami: A discussion of Anne Tardos’s “Uxudo”
(Wed, Sep 13, 2017)
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- The Hand's Reach: A discussion of Lorenzo Thomas’s “An Arc Still Open”
(Wed, Aug 16, 2017)
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- Dead To Me: A discussion of Claudia Rankine's “Don't Let Me Be Lonely”
(Wed, Jul 12, 2017)
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- Truth Flies: A discussion of Robin Blaser’s “A Bird in the House.”
(Tue, Jun 6, 2017)
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- Listen to Everything You Love Disappear: A discussion of Patrick Rosal’s “Instance of an Island."
(Tue, May 16, 2017)
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- Rise and Live: A discussion of Naomi Replansky's “In Syrup, in Syrup” and “Ring Song."
(Wed, Apr 12, 2017)
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- To Rearrange the World: A discussion of Philip Whalen’s “Life at Bolinas. The Last of California.”
(Tue, Mar 7, 2017)
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- I Mean Only Means: A discussion of Kate Colby's I Mean.
(Thu, Feb 9, 2017)
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- But Too Beautiful: A discussion of Tracie Morris' “Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful”
(Wed, Jan 11, 2017)
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- It Is Time: A discussion of Paul Celan's "Corona"
(Tue, Dec 6, 2016)
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- Dear Conflicted Reader: A discussion of C.D. Wright's One Big Self
(Tue, Nov 15, 2016)
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- No Truths Self-Evident: A Discussion of Michael Magee’s “Morning Constitutional”
(Wed, Oct 19, 2016)
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- Explode for Small Change: A Discussion of Akilah Oliver's “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t”
(Wed, Sep 14, 2016)
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- Swear It Closed: A Discussion of Simone White’s book Of Being Dispersed
(Tue, Aug 9, 2016)
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- Mind’s Not Right: A Discussion of Robert Lowell's "Skunk Hour"
(Tue, Jul 12, 2016)
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- With What Geometry: A Discussion of Edward Dorn’s “The Sundering U.P. Tracks”
(Tue, Jun 14, 2016)
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- A Retrospective: A Discussion of Previous Episodes with Seven Poets
(Tue, May 10, 2016)
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- The Unabettable Bleak: A Discussion of Four Poems by William Bronk
(Tue, Apr 12, 2016)
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- Weakness Stalks in Pride: A Discussion of James Weldon Johnson's “O Southland!”
(Tue, Mar 15, 2016)
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- Articulate beyond Walls: A Discussion of Three Poems by Larry Eigner
(Wed, Feb 17, 2016)
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- The Laurel Crown: A Discussion of Allen Grossman's "My Radiant Eye"
(Tue, Jan 19, 2016)
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- I too received identity: A Discussion of Rob Fitterman’s Sprawl
(Tue, Dec 8, 2015)
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- No Spell Broken: A Discussion of CAConrad's (Soma)tic Midge
(Tue, Nov 17, 2015)
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- Dreams Not Spoiled by Roaches: A Discussion of Helen Adam’s “Cheerless Junkie’s Song"
(Tue, Oct 20, 2015)
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- An Abductee, in Theory: A discussion of Bob Perelman’s “Confession”
(Tue, Sep 22, 2015)
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- The Body in Pain: A discussion of Gill Ott's "The Forgotten"
(Tue, Aug 18, 2015)
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- The F*ck-You Bow: A discussion of Gertrude Stein's "How She Bowed to Her Brother"
(Tue, Jul 14, 2015)
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- Requiem So Sweet We Forgot What It Lamented: A Discussion of Nathaniel Mackey's "Day after Day of the Dead"
(Thu, Jun 18, 2015)
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- Me No One Will Take: A Discussion of Kathy Acker's "The Diseased" and "The Slave Trader"
(Tue, May 19, 2015)
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