-
Game of Thrones [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, I could eat a horse's heart. As any partner in any 10 year marriage could say, as any smarty with a heart who has worked and lived in America in these last…
-
The New Black [by Diann Blakely]
Since 2009, I’ve written the annual National Poetry Month omnibus for a general interest literary publication. This year I proposed an online special feature that would serve as a complement, “The New Black,” focusing…
-
Inspired by The Inspired Word’s Michael Geffner by Stacey Harwood
I caught up with Michael Geffner recently, which, if you’re a facebook friend or are among his 8000+ twitter followers (@MikeGeffner), you know is no small feat. Geffner is founder, producer, and director of…
-
Poetry in the polis? – Cara Benson
Two recent essays/tracts of mine include embedded poems of protest. Poems that urge action beyond the reception of the poem. These pieces consider the role of the poem in politics and politics in…
-
Notes toward No, Hello – Cara Benson
I’ve been thinking about blogging and being a guest and l’étranger and Derrida “On Hospitality” and Adorno “On Lyric Poetry and Society” and thinking about this space (language) as a threshold. An entry point.…
-
“There’s no footballer called Plato” by Roddy Doyle (via facebook)
‘Did you hear your man, the Senator, on the radio there?’‘I fuckin’ hate the radio. Which one?’‘The one that’s running for President. He was goin’ on abou’ Plato.’‘The footballer?’‘The ancient Greek – there’s no…
