New Collaborative Piece by Fred Moten Up at The New Inquiry

In a feature at the New Inquiry, Fred Moten's "come on, get it!" writes–with collaborators Thom Donovan, Malik Gaines, Ethan Philbrick, Wikipedi,a and the Online Etymology Dictionary–groups, Gruppen, writing in a state of abandon. Or is it that this piece itself is a state of abandon? Read for yourselves:

...What Thom might say is: they thought I was making poems but really we were making poetry. We want to keep seeing what we come to in the making. It’s not that matters of skill or craft have been suspended. They just been socialized, deindividuated, shared. Thom is them. Thom’n’em, Them downstairs, in a tremendous submachine of milk’n’cookies. To say that them is a poet, or a good poet, is to narrow the scope of the shit in which they involved, a threshold poetry hands when its care and study gets so deep. Neither the poet nor the poem can contain such virtue: what it is to be able not so much to ask but to construct a question, to be allowed being also to be required to construct, construct implying some intention—fanned out all over the yard like some weighted canopies or a community sing of open corners or a conversion of the guards—to hit a poem or a poet in the throat or in the stomach. Man, it’s a shame how them fucked up all them damn poets and them damn poems’n’em.

Find the piece entire at TNI.