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Body as land. Body is land. [by Natalie Diaz]
It is most important to know where we have come from. Where I live, from our front doors we look north and see the very mountain at which we were created—bluish and zigzagged with…
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This Monday at KGB: Matthew Zapruder + Charlotte Boulay
Matthew Zapruder + Charlotte Boulay Monday, March 31, 2014 Hosted by John Deming and Matthew Yeager Series founded in 1997 by Star Black and David Lehman Doors open at 7:00 pm Reading starts at…
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The Language Transubstantiation of Santa Claus On the Rez [by Natalie Diaz]
I shouldn’t be thinking of Santa Claus in March. But, this picture I took in the desert behind my house was taken in October. Besides, I wanted to write something less heavy about language…
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“The Meaning of It” [by David Lehman]
All poetry is experimental poetry. All experiments are failed experiments. All poetry is personal. You can argue about it all you like, but usually we go on one assumption, not being too worried if the answer…
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History: The Great American Lullaby [by Natalie Diaz]
Words become words because we need them. I don’t know what they are before that—impulses, energy, trilobites, Hydrogen—who knows. But once they become words, I believe in them, the power and the glory of…
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Blast from Ze Past: What I was thinking about in 1990. . .[by David Lehman]
Derridadaism [1] "Philosophy? Cela suffit!" [2]Said the man Named de Man. [3]J. Hillis Miller: J. Phyllis Diller. [4] 1. Geoffrey Hartman's term in Saving the Text. An alternative spelling, Derrida(da)ism, subversively reveals the Russian…
