Over at The Chatelaine’s Poetics, Leny Strobel writes in: Many white students earnestly believe they are not racist and yet can point to incidents and comments wherein they participate in racial acts including the act of being silent in the face of racial comments made by others. Leny also assumes that Andrew Loewen “has issued some kind of apology.” Eileen…
Author: Timothy Yu
I am sympathizing deeply with Cassie, whose thoughts on her valedictory weekend of Bay Area poetry decadence “To count up the last times, collect them in a suitcase and turn to face the east” remind me a lot of my own feelings on departure back in August. Bon voyage, Cassie. I’ll see you on Ontario’s gentle shores.
No deflections, says Mme Chatelaine: “at the end of the day, Andrew Loewen’s remarks objectified the Filipina.” And Jean Vengua: I had considered the possibility of joining the Buffalo poetics listserv, but thought I’d “lurk” for awhile to get a feel for the community. OK, I got it.
Readings! sleepovers! baseball!
Why do so many people conflate harshness and strength?
Some poems by Jonathan Mayhew and Barbara Jane Reyes on the current debate.
Sign spotted today in the yard of a house in Roscoe Village on the North Side: CONDO BUYERS BEWARE: NOISY WHITE TRASH STILL LIVES HERE
Unfortunately, it seems an addendum is necessary after looking over today’s Poetics list digest. I hope I am mistaken in thinking that Ray Bianchi is charging me (I assume he means me, since it’s my email that’s attached to the end of his post) with “degrading” the conversation on the list through my critique of Andrew Loewen’s post. I don’t…
Andrew Loewen, the author of the Poetics list post that got me, Eileen, Chris, and others so worked up, has appeared in my comment box (see the previous post), stating that while he’s certainly “learned something” from the response to his post, he still feels that the actual points he was trying to make “have been unjustly ignored at the…
Is there good sense on the Poetics list? Yes. Its name is Chris Murray.