This week we welcome Cassandra Cleghorn as our guest author for the week of July 8-12. Cassandra's Four Weathercocks was published in 2016 by Marick Press. Her poems and reviews have appeared in journals including Paris Review, Yale Review, Poetry International,Colorado Review, Boston Review, Field and Tin House. She lives in Vermont, teaches at Williams College, regularly reviews poetry for Publishers Weekly and serves as poetry editor of Tupelo Press. For more about Cassandra Cleghorn see www.cassandracleghorn.com.
We also welcome Alec Bernstein, who will begin posting periodically from New York City. Alec is an independent consultant in counter-intuitive design. His previous trades were in industrial design, technology, classical and avant-garde music, performance art, and poetry. The first 20 professional years he performed as, in or under Svexner Labs, Aesthetic Research, Co-Accident, Gregg Smith, and Robert Kraft. In his teenage poetry years he co-published Buffalo Stamps (as this is a poetry blog, more later). The second 20 years, he worked for BMW Group in their Los Angeles design studio. He holds patents and has published papers on visual theory.
Welcome Cassandra and Alec.
— sdl