A Map Through the Mines of My Book
By Lissa Kiernan @ Arsenic Lobster [two excerpts]: The book’s 60 poems, in savant-like methodical brilliance, are arranged in alpha-order and prefaced by a quote from Virginia Woolf’s cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando: “Everything, in fact, was something else.” This frames things perfectly, for to exist in King’s world for the duration of this book is to … Read more
Calling All Agents
CALLING ALL AGENTS When they come unexpected, love and letters unsettle as if to blow penciled hues that prick the pupils of one who scans a dying horizon for wooden branches of floral text. Hold out the web of your impulse; turn what stands before you to Braille. A built-in face would never last the … Read more
THE FEAR OF HOPE IS ALSO BEAUTIFUL
THE FEAR OF HOPE IS ALSO BEAUTIFUL On horseback or mixing math with philosophy, her skin is tired, she is nervous, a never-ending boy, the kind with soundproof eyes that echo the faint hymn hers persuades the hand toward you with. Prick goes the fingertip, when she knocks more dents with a ball peen hammer … Read more
Poetry Doesn’t Need a Defense
Poetry Doesn’t Need a Defense By Amy King “Poetry in motion!” “Her use of poetic license awakens the spirit…” “The hands of poetry at work …” Whether it be about a film, book, painting, or the ballet, these oft-heard review statements have one thing in common: the knowledge that compositions revealing fresh and unusual techniques, … Read more
Hope Your Road Is a Long One
I Love This Prince … Will Oldham / Bonnie “Prince” Billy sings “I Am Goodbye” ~~~~ HOPE YOUR ROAD IS A LONG ONE Hope your road is a long one. Along the way, have some nuts and berries; they’re not obsolete. In my own hand, cashews, almonds, cranberries. Don’t be irritated by the vacant woman’s … Read more
NaPoWriMo – Every Other Day
THE TASTE OF LIGHT & OUR DIGESTIVE TRACTS I’m portable. My mind travels gulls and valleys between people. I’m at its heels, the grabbing of long white trains and veils, using their hats for sleds. Africa is one season without snow. I’m there too, testing the droughts for true water under skin cracks on distant … Read more
A Good Day and Then Some…
A GOOD DAY RECIPE: I just ordered You Are STILL Being Lied To: The NEW Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths, found out that Wanda Sykes will host her own late night talk show, am currently reading two not-Americans’ poetry books: Caroline Bergvall’s Cropper (Torque Press) and Anny Ballardini’s Ghost Dance … Read more
National Poetry Month
First, kick off April Fool’s Day and National Poetry Month with the killer song above by Andrew Bird and Martin Dosh, “Simple X.” I’m serious: this tune”ll make you feel good. Next, note that you can actively participate in the forging of new poems with a whole lotta other poets who participate in “NaPoWriMo” (National … Read more
