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Saturday, February 1: Raise the Roof, Pay the Rent at Cave Canem’s NYC Rent Party
Rent parties began in Harlem in the 1920s when cash-strapped Uptown residents devised creative ways to pay discriminatory rental rates on low salaries. Party hosts opened their homes, and in exchange for a small…
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Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton, & more: 2015 titles from Sibling Rivalry Press.
Coming Fall of 2015 from Sibling Rivalry Press — The Collected & New Collaborative Work of Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton. Excitement! And here are more 2015 titles from SRP, via cue cards…
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What Makes a Human Being Make a Poem? [by Joy Jacobson]
Strangers. You, strangers, reading my poems. The thought makes me a little lightheaded. I’ve grown accustomed to being the solitary artist at work with words, spinning out a poem in its own idiolect. But…
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New Mexico: Rift, Poetry, Refuge [by Joy Jacobson]
Sandhills, Bosque del Apache refuge; © Tony Giancola, www.giancola.com I peek out back for new snow fallen overnight. None today. Even a dusting somehow manages to quiet the anxious crowd that tends to gather…
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Joy Jacobson, Guest Author January 27-31
This week we welcome Joy Jacobson as our guest author. Joy is a poet, a health care journalist, and an editor. She’s the poet-in-residence at the Center for Health, Media & Policy at Hunter…
