I got a phone call from a friend of mine (a Canadian, as it happens, now resident in Utah) just before game time last night, who wanted to offer me premature congratulations, as the only person he knew who had a remote claim to being a Chicago South Sider. (Our place in Chicago is, indeed, in Hyde Park.) He was…
Gale Force Metaphors
Something about covering a hurricane brings out the worst in a writer: Palm trees bent; their fronds looked like they were on a 100 mile an hour ride in a convertible… At about 9:30 in the morning, when the torrent of wind and rain and calmed down somewhat, people ventured out. They looked like extras in a dawn-of-the-dead movie as…
Is literature conservative?
Jonathan on his politically wary colleagues: They worry that literature itself is a conservative thing. That is, they view the object of study itself as somehow suspect, infused with conservative baggage that it is their task to be suspicious of. If I’m understanding this statement correctly, it’s a little different from the subsequent discussion over at Bemsha Swing, which is…
WWPOH #2
From Jon Leon: Poets and Parties: Issue #2 of Wherever We Put Our Hats has arrived and will be hitting the post Monday morning with a spritely new cover and a generous cache of poems from the young and the old(er), and the young and the western. See the contents here: wwpoh.blogspot.com Thanks to all the contributors past, current, and…
The University of Chicago Committee on Creative Writing’sEmerging Writers Series presents a poetry reading bySAM WHITE and GEOFF HILSABECK Tuesday, October 11Classics 216:00pmReception to follow The Emerging Writers Series presents three joint readings per year that pair a professional emerging writer with a U of C student writer of his/her selection. This Fall’s Emerging Writers Series Reading will feature poet…
Wierd
So I’m idly browsing some stories on the announcement by 15-year-old golf prodigy Michelle Wie that she’s going pro when I start to notice some oddities about the way her nationality and ethnicity are being described. The first story, from the Rocky Mountain News: Wie, though born in Hawaii, is of Korean ancestry and speaks fluent Korean. The straight-A student…
Susan Wheeler at UChicago
POEM PRESENT Reading and Lecture Series SUSAN WHEELERReading: Thursday, October 6Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street5:30pmA reception will follow the reading Lecture: Friday, October 7Wieboldt 408, 1050 E. 59th Street1:00pm Title: “Mutant Vernaculars!” Susan Wheeler is the author of four collections of poetry, Bag ‘o’ Diamonds (1993, University of Georgia Press), Smokes (1998, Four Way Books), Source Codes (2001, Salt…
Myopic Poetry Series: October
MYOPIC POETRY SERIES — a weekly series of poetry, fiction, and occasional talks Myopic Books in Chicago — Sundays at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd Floor OCTOBER EVENTS Sunday October 2 – Chicago Noir hosted by Adam Levin Sunday October 9 – Melissa Buzzeo and Amina Cain Sunday October 16 – Raymond L. Bianchi and Jennifer Karmin Sunday…
Realizing the extent to which Sau-ling Wong’s theory of Asian American literature relies on an analogy between texts and persons: Just as the Asian American ethnic group is a political coalition, Asian American literature may be thought of as an emergent and evolving textual coalition, whose interests it is the business of a professional coalition of Asian American critics to…
Comment box spammers seem to have found me over the weekend; I came back to a good two or three dozen junk comments. I may have to suspend commenting if it continues, despite the devastating impact I know that will have on national poetry discourse. Long absence over the past month largely due to general start-of-term busyness, I guess. I’m…