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My Sometime Summer Writing Room: A Roof of Trees and Sestinas
"How often have I lain beneath a roof of trees and sestinas, Sestinas and trees, the chiasmus of my timid hopes decked Out in the styles of the day, Losing myself in novels of corporeal sunshine and…
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Print or electronic? Which would you choose?
When a friend recently had a poem accepted for publication he was given the option of having it appear in either the print or electronic version of the journal. He picked the electronic, on…
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Sharon Mesmer, Guest Blogger August 1 – 7
This week we welcome Sharon Mesmer as our guest blogger. Sharon is a Fulbright Specialist, Jerome Foundation mentor (with poet Elisabeth Workman), two-time NYFA poetry fellow, member of the flarf collective, Polish, and star…
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Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Karl Parker
A Museum of Making Do When all was said and done, the human parts were my favorites. Sun glints through glass roofs under which some move, irregularly ambulant. I’m glad we never make it to the…
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Mongolia at Tibet House and Eating Aaruul with Leigh Wells [by Stacey Harwood]
Ever since David and I traveled to China and Mongolia in 2008 as guests of the American embassy, I’ve paid particular attention to all things Mongolian-related that might happen in New York City. When…
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Machines, Material and Materials by Brian Henry
“[T]here are no rules. What I think is that you start with materials. You start with matter, not rules.” —Clark Coolidge “And the matter is language or, more exactly, words or, more exactly still,…
