The latest Colorado Review contains some poems I wrote after Paul Thek. Thanks to my friend Sasha Steensen and the other editors at CR for inviting me to contribute.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Literal Blood in Colorado Review
The latest Colorado Review contains some poems I wrote after Paul Thek. Thanks to my friend Sasha Steensen and the other editors at CR for inviting me to contribute.
Poetry During OWS
The following feature contains original writing by 19 participants: Anne Boyer, Dana Ward, Anelise Chen, Brian Ang, Marie Buck, Stephanie Young, Lauren Levin, Brandon Brown, Kristin Prevallet, Josef Kaplan, Brian Whitener, Rob Halpern, Alli Warren, Jackqueline Frost, Michael Cross, Frank Sherlock, Thom Donovan, Susan Bernofsky, and David Brazil. The feature was edited and composed between September 2011 and April 2012, dates which correspond roughly to the first seven months of the Occupy movement. It was originally published in the Summer 2012 issue of the journal Rethinking Marxism.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Dog Day Poetry Marathon Schedule
See you all there!
August 17th - 19th at Outpost 186.
186 ½ Hampshire St.
Inman Sq., Cambridge
Friday: 7:00 - 10:00pm
Saturday: 1:00 - 5:00pm & 7:00 - 10:00pm
Sunday: 1:00 - 4:00pm
FRIDAY
7:00 John Mulrooney
7:08 Emily Spiegelman
7:16 Kythe Heller
7:24 Chuck Stebelton
7:32 Brenda Iijima
7:40 January O'Neil
7:48 Jordan Davis
break
8:06 Maria Damon
8:14 Anna Deeny
8:22 Ruth Lepson: Talk on Alberto de Lacerda
8:37 Guillermo Parra: Talk on Jose Antonio Ramos Sucre
break
9:02 Lori Lubeski
9:10 Dayana Fraile
9:18 Michael Carr
9:26 Rachel Sachs Steele
9:34 Janaka Stucky
9:42 Bridget Madden
9:50 Gilmore Tamny
SATURDAY
1:00 Jim Behrle
1:08 Ben McFall
1:16 Susanna Gardner
1:24 Jenny Zhang
1:32 Cheryl Clark Vermeulen
1:40 Ish Klein
1:48 Hassen Saker
break
2:06 Aaron Tieger
2:14 Jess Mynes
2:22 Marcella Durand: Talk on translating Baudelaire & Proust poems
2:37 Zachary Bos: Talk on L.E. Sissman
break
3:02 Tracey McTague
3:10 G.L. Ford
3:18 Allen Bramhall
3:26 Patrick Doud
3:34 Mairead Byrne
3:42 Mark Lamoureux
3:50 Erica Kaufman
break
4:16 Brendan Lorber: Talk on Ruin & Desire
4:31 Nathaniel Otting: Talk on editing minutes BOOKS
4:46 Filip Marinovich: Talk on the Poetics of Initiation At Brooks School in North Andover
break
7:00 Susan Landers
7:08 Jen Benka
7:16 Carol Mirakove
7:24 Leopoldine Core
7:32 John Coletti
7:40 Dorothea Lasky
7:48 Eileen Myles
break
8:06 Jack Kimball: Talk on Don Quatrale, Rene Ricard & Billy Barnum
8:21 Ethan Fugate: Talk on Bike-Commute Photography Poetics
8:36 Douglas Rothschild: Talk on how great he is
break
9:02 Karen Weiser
9:10 Simone White
9:18 Jessica Fiorini
9:26 Jacqueline Waters
9:34 Edmund Berrigan
9:42 Betsy Wheeler
9:50 Thom Donovan
SUNDAY
1:00 Anthony Cuellar
1:08 Suzanne Mercury
1:16 Joel Sloman
1:24 James Cook
1:32 Farrah Field
1:40 Kimberly Lyons
1:48 Anna Moschovakis
break
2:06 Rachel Levitsky: Talk on the Office of Recuperative Strategies
2:21 Jim Dunn: Talk on Harry Crosby
2:36 Carol Weston: Talk on Stephen Jonas
break
3:01 Aaron Kiely
3:09 Ryan Gallagher
3:17 David Rich
3:25 Amanda Cook
3:33 Sean Cole
3:41 Michael Franco
3:49 Gerrit Lansing
August 17th - 19th at Outpost 186.
186 ½ Hampshire St.
Inman Sq., Cambridge
Friday: 7:00 - 10:00pm
Saturday: 1:00 - 5:00pm & 7:00 - 10:00pm
Sunday: 1:00 - 4:00pm
FRIDAY
7:00 John Mulrooney
7:08 Emily Spiegelman
7:16 Kythe Heller
7:24 Chuck Stebelton
7:32 Brenda Iijima
7:40 January O'Neil
7:48 Jordan Davis
break
8:06 Maria Damon
8:14 Anna Deeny
8:22 Ruth Lepson: Talk on Alberto de Lacerda
8:37 Guillermo Parra: Talk on Jose Antonio Ramos Sucre
break
9:02 Lori Lubeski
9:10 Dayana Fraile
9:18 Michael Carr
9:26 Rachel Sachs Steele
9:34 Janaka Stucky
9:42 Bridget Madden
9:50 Gilmore Tamny
SATURDAY
1:00 Jim Behrle
1:08 Ben McFall
1:16 Susanna Gardner
1:24 Jenny Zhang
1:32 Cheryl Clark Vermeulen
1:40 Ish Klein
1:48 Hassen Saker
break
2:06 Aaron Tieger
2:14 Jess Mynes
2:22 Marcella Durand: Talk on translating Baudelaire & Proust poems
2:37 Zachary Bos: Talk on L.E. Sissman
break
3:02 Tracey McTague
3:10 G.L. Ford
3:18 Allen Bramhall
3:26 Patrick Doud
3:34 Mairead Byrne
3:42 Mark Lamoureux
3:50 Erica Kaufman
break
4:16 Brendan Lorber: Talk on Ruin & Desire
4:31 Nathaniel Otting: Talk on editing minutes BOOKS
4:46 Filip Marinovich: Talk on the Poetics of Initiation At Brooks School in North Andover
break
7:00 Susan Landers
7:08 Jen Benka
7:16 Carol Mirakove
7:24 Leopoldine Core
7:32 John Coletti
7:40 Dorothea Lasky
7:48 Eileen Myles
break
8:06 Jack Kimball: Talk on Don Quatrale, Rene Ricard & Billy Barnum
8:21 Ethan Fugate: Talk on Bike-Commute Photography Poetics
8:36 Douglas Rothschild: Talk on how great he is
break
9:02 Karen Weiser
9:10 Simone White
9:18 Jessica Fiorini
9:26 Jacqueline Waters
9:34 Edmund Berrigan
9:42 Betsy Wheeler
9:50 Thom Donovan
SUNDAY
1:00 Anthony Cuellar
1:08 Suzanne Mercury
1:16 Joel Sloman
1:24 James Cook
1:32 Farrah Field
1:40 Kimberly Lyons
1:48 Anna Moschovakis
break
2:06 Rachel Levitsky: Talk on the Office of Recuperative Strategies
2:21 Jim Dunn: Talk on Harry Crosby
2:36 Carol Weston: Talk on Stephen Jonas
break
3:01 Aaron Kiely
3:09 Ryan Gallagher
3:17 David Rich
3:25 Amanda Cook
3:33 Sean Cole
3:41 Michael Franco
3:49 Gerrit Lansing
Sunday, August 12, 2012
The 90s
I awake to this apocalypse too
And Black Earth like the earth
Was dying into the 90s
Where I was born
So the dead awaken
I am this grave of empathy
Left over from wanting to live
So dying becomes a property of life again
*
Put the munis back in community
Wanting it is a sign of our alienation
Hurt today that I appeared (hurt)
These personal apocalypses and these collective apocalypses
Render an affect of high school
This inner light and that outer light
Of the 90s in high school
The sky went dark
The world went dark
And only then was there hope
In my 90s where cafe culture reached its peak
The 90s begins and ends inside the mouth
Indie rock begins in your mouth
*
It is a poem of friendship
I am dreaming the 90s before
I could remember anything
There were spaces we shared
The bodies we were eventually
To share not invented yet
There were certain reminders
We were still human forms
That we were not undead
Which sex do you identify with
When you see a vampire?
And Black Earth like the earth
Was dying into the 90s
Where I was born
So the dead awaken
I am this grave of empathy
Left over from wanting to live
So dying becomes a property of life again
*
Put the munis back in community
Wanting it is a sign of our alienation
Hurt today that I appeared (hurt)
These personal apocalypses and these collective apocalypses
Render an affect of high school
This inner light and that outer light
Of the 90s in high school
The sky went dark
The world went dark
And only then was there hope
In my 90s where cafe culture reached its peak
The 90s begins and ends inside the mouth
Indie rock begins in your mouth
*
It is a poem of friendship
I am dreaming the 90s before
I could remember anything
There were spaces we shared
The bodies we were eventually
To share not invented yet
There were certain reminders
We were still human forms
That we were not undead
Which sex do you identify with
When you see a vampire?
Sonnet 64
When I have seen the upper
Echelons of America
The rich proud cost unlikely
to respond
When sometime lofty
towers
The recent war
with
And brass of what Benjamin when
I have seen the reflection
Is an
undertaking and the firm
Soil almost heroically
cleaved
And the Internet
of debris
Ruin hath
taught me so interestingly
Circulating with telling intensity to
win
The major
companies
Their deeper allegorical
significance.