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Shelf-Reading the: Look No. 1 Continued on Stephanie Brown’s “Stacks” [by Heather J. Macpherson]
Before I continue with the second half of my essay, I would like to thank Managing Editor, Stacy Harwood-Lehman for giving me the opportunity as a guest blogger this week on BAP. I cannot…
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Shelf-Reading the: Look No. 1 at Stephanie Brown’s “Stacks” [by Heather J. Macpherson]
The following is part one of my commentary on Stephanie Brown's poem "Stacks." I first encountered Stephanie Brown’s poetry in The Body Electric: America’s Best American Poetry from The American Poetry Review (W.W.…
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An Interview with Stephanie Brown, Part 3: The Ring Lardner Reference, Skepticism & Foreign Countries
Part 3 concludes my interview with Stephanie. I look forward to posting commentary on her poem "Stacks" on Thursday and Friday. Another one of your poems from Domestic Interior, "Self-Portrait at the End…
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An Interview with Stephanie Brown, Part 2: Taking Permission: Motherhood, Poetry Writing & Casual Sexism [by Heather J. Macpherson]
If I might backtrack a little to your commentary on feminist concerns: What strikes me the most in "Mommy is a Scary Narcissist" is the concept of looking, whether at the self, others,…
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For Autumn: Poems by Latino/a/xs: Francisco Aragon
Unknown Distances, inkjet print on canvas, 2012, iliana emilia garcia “UNKNOWN DISTANCES” by Francisco Aragon Not this deserted stretch of beach this morning fog… And that slick border of sand…
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“Of a whorehouse in Odessa….” (by Mitch Sisskind)
Of a whorehouse in Odessa Isaac Babel wroteThat sometimes groans of pleasure liftedThe whole building six inches off the ground.So too it was at the Commonwealth HotelOn the corner of Pine Grove and DiverseyWhere…
