On Community April 30, 2012: [caption id="attachment_45570" align="alignnone" width="218" caption="Image: "I Will Not," by Niki Escobar (2012)."][/caption] In line with Rigoberto Gonzalez's last blog post, "Letras Latinas and Building Community," I have been thinking about community, and my own work with/in community. Over the past few years, I've found [...] by Barbara Jane Reyes

Into a stranger cavern April 30, 2012: Was Mendelssohn the first composer to be inspired by train travel? I’ve been working on a commission for the Liverpool Biennial involving Edge Hill, the oldest passenger station in the world. The journey from Liverpool’s main station, Lime Street, out to Edge Hill is only about four minutes long but it takes you through historical tunnels [...] by Lavinia Greenlaw

Lisa Robertson: improvisation and wandering April 30, 2012: And so, having interviewed (and spent a few days with) one of the writers whose work I have most loved, most lived with, I now find myself faced with a loss and a gain. I gain a friend, but a person cannot stand for “poetry” if the person is now a person. And from my chair: a delicate improvisation unfurls raw. It was good. It was [...] by Julie Carr

Matrix, one, two April 30, 2012: The latest issue of Matrix, a Montreal magazine, just slid across my desk. I love when I open a magazine and am taken by a poem. In this case two poems, by two different poets. One begins, "I am speaking to you from the bottom of a well," and it's a refreshing use of the "I," in this case, a direct address, but also a mysterious turn, a series of [...] by Sina Queyras

Our Occupations (after the Occupations): Jeanine Webb April 30, 2012: Jeanine Webb is next up in a series of posts for National Poetry Month regarding how writing and art practices have changed in response to the occupations. Previous respondents include Stephen Collis and Steve Benson; Richard Owens and Brian Whitener; Brian Ang and Ana Božičević; David Buuck; Suzanne Stein and Anna Vitale; Dan Thomas [...] by Thom Donovan

National Poetry Month and May Day 2012 April 30, 2012: On Saturday, I was again in the 9th floor offices of Domestic Workers United talking about poetry, about the function of politics in the creative writing workshop, about the 99%, about artists’ rights to their creative work, about documentary film, about the use of juxtaposition in couplets and stanzas, & about “show flow” for our [...] by Mark Nowak

Our Occupations (after the Occupations): Jennifer Scappettone April 30, 2012: [caption id="attachment_45471" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Courtesy Rachel Levitsky"][/caption] Jennifer Scappettone is next up in a series of posts for National Poetry Month regarding how writing and art practices have changed in response to the occupations. Previous respondents include Stephen Collis and Steve Benson; Richard [...] by Thom Donovan

Mónica de la Torre—FOUR April 30, 2012: I think I first met Mónica de la Torre at a reading she gave with Eleni Sikelianos in the late ’90s or early ’00s at a gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The close friend I mentioned in a previous post knew her when they both lived in Mexico City (where de la Torre was born), and he encouraged me to introduce myself and say hello. At the [...] by Alan Gilbert

All Creatures Great And Small April 30, 2012: The heroes that plumb the depths of the body electric, act as a litmus for edge and its extractive measures from the core—what chums the bone at a reading, what elevates the slivered base. The time invested in what to choose for a reading is a direct reflection of the skin's sealed incapacity for stasis—when to unfurl the new one, when to rest [...] by Edwin Torres

Our Occupations (after the Occupations): Lara Durback April 30, 2012: [caption id="attachment_45370" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="Courtesy Kate Robinson"][/caption] Lara Durback  is next up in a series of posts for National Poetry Month regarding how writing and art practices have changed in response to the occupations. Previous respondents include Stephen Collis and Steve Benson; Richard Owens and [...] by Thom Donovan