Annals of reception: I found my poem “Flight Risk,” which appeared in SHAMPOO a while back, cited on the website Health-Get.com (“a resource for health-minded individuals”) on a list of “endurance poems,” which seems to be a search-engine-generated catalog of inspirational verse. Other items include poems like “Love’s Endurance,” by “Mary B.”: In quiet awe I saw love’s endurance Life’s…
Well, after all my bluster, due to circumstances beyond my control I never made it to Cassie’s reading. So I guess I’ll take solace in a few thoughts on a poet almost as good as Cassie: Lorine Niedecker. (Come on, Niedecker fans–I’m just having a little fun.) I shamefully admit to knowing very little about Niedecker until Thursday, when my…
Everybody go hear Cassie Lewis and Brydie McPherson read tonight at 7:30 at Small Press Traffic. Get on the next plane if you have to. You won’t be sorry. And although *I’m* very sorry that I wasn’t able to be at Eileen’s reading on Wednesday, I almost feel as if I was, thanks to Eileen’s and Stephanie’s incisive reporting. Who…
Stephanie says: “I’m pretty sure that my own habit of avoiding fights and wanting folks to get along will all end badly. Soon I’ll just look namby pamby.” Oh no, Steph–you’re the sane center of this crazy world.
Right now David Hess has me listed on his links bar as “A Grad Student I Can Get Down With.”
I’m absolutely delighted by the image of John Erhardt (although I have no idea what he looks like) sitting in the waiting room of a body shop reading Stephanie and Cassie’s book of postcard poems–for the *second* time.
I’m pleased to see Ron Silliman today talking about Asian American writing, mentioning the anthology Premonitions and Tibetan American poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa. But I’m a little worried by some of the ways he frames his discussion, which touch on some of the problems that recur in many discussions of Asian American writing. Silliman praises Premonitions as evidence of the…
Since you asked (well, okay, one of you asked)–a full report on the grad student reading last night. The most impressive thing was the turnout. The Terrace Room holds about 50 people (which, depending on whether you believe Ron Silliman or Jim Behrle, may or may not be a lot of people) and it was standing room only–probably more people…
Kasey insists that rumors of the existence of “Flarf” are greatly exaggerated. Which made me greatly relieved, as I had just sent off a pretty pathetic email to Stephanie begging her to enlighten me. You see, this is how crazy ideas that there are “movements” and “schools” out there get started. Somebody does something goofy, a couple of her/his friends…
Eileen Tabios and Nick Carbo are putting together a collection called PinoyPoetics, billed as “the first international poetics anthology of Filipino English-language poets.” As Eileen mentioned in her blog on Saturday (and today), the collection includes an essay of mine on the poet Jose Garcia Villa called “Asian/American Modernisms: Jose Garcia Villa’s Transnational Poetics.” Eileen’s done more than anybody alive…