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Poetry in the polis? – Cara Benson
Two recent essays/tracts of mine include embedded poems of protest. Poems that urge action beyond the reception of the poem. These pieces consider the role of the poem in politics and politics in…
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Notes toward No, Hello – Cara Benson
I’ve been thinking about blogging and being a guest and l’étranger and Derrida “On Hospitality” and Adorno “On Lyric Poetry and Society” and thinking about this space (language) as a threshold. An entry point.…
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“There’s no footballer called Plato” by Roddy Doyle (via facebook)
‘Did you hear your man, the Senator, on the radio there?’‘I fuckin’ hate the radio. Which one?’‘The one that’s running for President. He was goin’ on abou’ Plato.’‘The footballer?’‘The ancient Greek – there’s no…
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Cara Benson, Guest Blogger June 12 – 18
This week we welcome Cara Benson as our guest blogger. Cara is the author of two books of poetry: (made) (BookThug, 2010) and Protean Parade (Black Radish Books, 2012). Her chapbook "Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation" won the bpNichol…
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Larry Rivers and Phoebe Legere
I really like Larry Rivers — painter, musician, genuinely peculiar person, possibly dangerous to himself and others, a real hipster at heart. I've read his autobiography, entitled What Did I Do?, and enjoyed learning…
