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Fifty years ago today. . . a documentary [by DL]
If every day is the anniversary of something stupid, or evil, or just a big downerlike the day the Surgeon General declared that cigarettes were bad for youfifty years ago, then each day is…
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“autopsy” [by Raven Jackson]
take my headplace it on yourlap leave it theremama for years let my hair blendwith wallpaperlet my eyes forgetwhere to lookhold my fingerssister in yours watch how they fallinto you intoa shovelleave my woundsfor…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews in Conversation with Ravi Shankar, editor of Drunken Boat
NA: When I think of Drunken Boat, I think first of Arthur Rimbaud, and second of this wonderful International web-magazine, which just released its 18th issue. I thought maybe we could start with you…
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On Art, the Anasazi, Genetics, and a Man Named Harry [by Joy Jacobson]
Pueblo Bonito, gregorywass, flickr There is a field where my ancestors have pitched their tents. Maybe it’s like the squalid tent cities that housed the destitute during the Great Depression. But I can’t get…
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Why Poets Should Watch the Super Bowl by Hannah Oberman-Breindel
WR Jermaine Kearse. Photo by Drew Sellers, Sportspress Northwest Poetry and football – a natural marriage, right? I know it’s a hard sell. “Let’s have Terrance Hayes do the halftime show,” said no NFL…