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Sotère Torregian

Take Time Out for a Meatball Sandwich

Thom Donovan

Three Proposals

1. Not let this story dry

For the past year I have been periodically watching Glenn Beck. I am fascinated by Beck for many reasons that also repulse me. Beck, like any number of right-wing pundits, codifies ideology via certain reading strategies and codes of rhetoric. A large part of the rhetorical code of the Glenn Beck show stems not just from what Beck says, and the many images and sound tracks which the pundit ‘spins’, but also from his use of gesture—gestures deriving from his training in the theater. Since Reagan we have been living with a series of actor presidents and politicians. Our imploded democracy (an oligarchic and representative form of it) has been shaped by a media machinery which privileges affective composure over reasonable discourse, and noble lies over social justice.

Craig Santos Perez

Poetry, Politics, & Why I am Not an Activist

decolonize

i’ve never considered myself an activist; if anything, i think what i do is ‘literary activism’ as i try to raise awareness of the struggles of my people through my poetry. in 2007, i became involved with a chamoru activist group called famoksaiyan. at first, i held writing workshops during the group’s annual conferences. but in 2008…

Sotère Torregian

Good! I have nowhere to go!

Sina Queyras

Poetries, languages and selves, the being of Erin Moure

Based in Montreal, Erin Mouré is one of Canada’s most eminent poets and translators. Of her work Laura Mullen says, “Erín Moure’s new book is so brave, has so much truly lively wit, and is so completely fresh it makes a lot of contemporary….poetry look like dorm furniture from Target: instantly charming and easy to discard.”

Fred Moten

post in three parts, goodbye, hello

Mingus says the shoes of the fisherman are some jive-ass slippers. On the other hand, The Shoes of the Fisherman is my favorite movie.

Sotère Torregian

“Home”

Craig Santos Perez

A Baby Picture, Author Photos, & My Second Book has been Published!

so my first book was published in 2008. the book has no author photo (my publisher said i was too ugly). but one day i received an email requesting an author photo. i had just come from the gym so i randomly decided to snap a pic with my computer’s ‘photo booth,’ and this has become my standard author photo:

Sina Queyras

Anthologies and feminisms: are we having a moment or what?

Angels
If you found Juliana Spahr and Claudia Rankine’s American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language exciting you’re going to appreciate Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry, published in 2009 by Coach House Books. Edited superbly by Kate Eichhorn and Heath Milne, the collection includes fifteen of the “most engaging avante garde Canadian women writing poetry today.”

Annie Finch

Rita's 4th birthday, Aug 28, 1956
Rita Dove, 1956

Last week, an “open letter” from Fred Viebahn, Rita Dove’s husband and ballroom dance partner, arrived in my email box with this startling subject line: “Poetry Society of America: insensitive, clueless, or just plain racist?”

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Thom Donovan
Bhanu Kapil
Fred Moten
Craig Santos Perez
Sina Queyras
Sotère Torregian

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IN THIS ISSUE: March 2010

Poetry Magazine

A selection of new work from Dorothea Grossman; new poems by Lavinia Greenlaw, David Yezzi, A.E. Stallings, Gerald Stern, and Dan Gerber; translations of Carlo Betocchi, and Mahmoud Darwish; an Editorial on Ruth Lilly; an exchange between Ilya Kaminsky and Adam Kirsch; an essay by Chen Li; and a review by Daisy Fried.

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