Archive for February, 2010
Craig Santos Perez
Poetry, Politics, & Why I am Not an Activist
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…
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.
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?
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 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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IN THIS ISSUE: March 2010
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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