“Charge hell with a bucket of water.” –Liz Carpenter
FEMINAISSANCE [My Review Forthcoming] ~~ Lucille Clifton, Poet Who Explored Intricacies of Black Lives, Dies at 73 ~~ American University Newspaper Vandalized Over “Rape Apology” ~~ How Do You Solve A Problem Like Sophia? An Exercise In Shaming Young Feminists ~~ Iceland: the world’s most feminist country ~~ How Queer Is Oprah? ~~ Women in … Read more
THE GURLESQUE
WHAT IT ISN’T… Over the past few days, there has been a flurry of recent debate on the Gurlesque (see my post below). Numerous contradictions, conflations, and confusions abound, coupled with not a lot of resolution or agreement regarding what has cumulatively “taken place” vis a vis the book itself (Ana Bozicevic touches on this … Read more
My Visceral Thought
Watch the Kathleen Hanna clip. Read the manifesto. I can’t help it. I keep saying I won’t write this post. It’s not worth it, I’ll appear rude, my knowledge is limited, etc. But I’ve decided to put it out there, after a cursory read and setting the book aside in annoyance. The Gurlesque anthology, GURLESQUE: … Read more
AWP – Denver, Colorado Schedule
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 7:00PM-10:00PM Dusie Pussipo Stonecoast Femiganza Location: at Packing House Center for the Arts, 835 E. 50th Ave. Denver, CO 80216 Cost: FREE! Everybody welcome! Website: http://controlgroupproductions.org/ Featuring: Bronwen Tate, Ann Bogle, Jennifer Karmin, Marthe Reed, Annie Finch, Amy King, Cara Benson, Mackenzie Carignan, Danielle Pafunda, Deborah Poe, Ana Bozicevic, Teresa Carmody, … Read more
Getting to Know Mr. Knott
Giorgio de Chirico So I bought Nights of Naomi and found this poem: THE FRAGILITY OF MARQUEES Ten Tibetan lesbians join hands to form the beautiful skingraft called sleep With bare hands of flood they caress the yellow machinery floating out of my ears Because just as the holding hands is burned up in the … Read more
Paid-for-Poem
Ana “bought” (supported? inspired? incentived?) a poem from Molly Gaudry – it rocks! Worth the cash-o-line? You decide: YOU ARE ONE BAD MAMA JAMA, MISS ALABAMA for Amy King and Ana Božičević Hitching home, I hear her holler and honk, and when I turn she pulls over and parks, levels her gauzy eyes on my … Read more
HTMLGIANT
The “I Like Amy King A Lot” Interview FIND OUT: * You’re very involved in participating in the poetry community. What motivates you to be involved with so many projects? What do you get from all your projects? * What is your best coping mechanism for the AWP experience? Do you enjoy participating in the … Read more
My Lovely Lady Links
Separate While Unequal: Tricky Women Festival Seeks To Fix Art World Imbalance ~~ We kinda suspected that this would be a polarising film. ~~ New Left Project | Articles | Capitalism, Consumerism and Feminism ~~ The continuing lack of equal pay proves feminism’s work is still far from done ~~ Family time still a struggle … Read more
Two Poets “Earning Their Keep”
David Green, NYC Subway Poet Initial Query So I commissioned a female artist not long ago to make some dolls of my partner-in-crime, Ana, and myself. I was thrilled when they arrived. But their arrival got me to thinking, especially in relation to the film, “Who Does She Think She Is?” — How many of … Read more
How to Say What You Haven’t
EXCERPTS in response to my “The What Else” essay: That is, it is not shaped by a coherent/canonized value system that’s purposed ideologically against a heteronormative poetic tradition… It should exist outside the power structure that contains that discourse, but become accessible by readerly politicized positions… Queerness haunts the machine, articulating differences. We don’t know what … Read more
“Strange Dolls”
“Amy King” Doll So I commissioned a woman artist, Beth Robinson, to make dolls of Ana and me to christen our new home. Robinson’s work has begun to be featured in galleries and written about in art publications. Not sure the photos do them justice — in person, they just rock. If you’re … Read more
“…damned mob of scribbling women” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
THOSE BADASS ♀ ARE AT IT AGAIN Judith Butler: As a Jew, I was taught it was ethically imperative to speak up ~~ “I call myself a feminist.”–Dalai Lama ~~ Film explores the life of China’s first feminist ~~ Sarkozy’s depiction of pregnant, ‘virgin’ Marianne sparks feminist … ~~ Forty years of women’s liberation ~~ The Revolution Won’t … Read more
