4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 30(!) :: Barrett Warner, Remembering Chris Toll
[script_teaser]And on the eleventh day, God created the Chris Toll.[/script_teaser][textwrap_image align="right"]http://www.theoperatingsystem.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Screen-Shot-2015-04-27-at-12.03.46-PM.png[/textwrap_image] And on the fourteenth day, God destroyed him. Such was the brevity of his national spotlight, which was made possible when Adam Robinson’s Publishing Genius Press issued Toll’s principle collection, The
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 29 :: Joanna C. Valente on John Milton
[line]Sometimes I like to think John and I are best friends, that we take long walks in Prospect Park together, looking like an old married couple as I momentarily guide him, work as his non-poetic eye. Of course, Milton was
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 28 :: Kristen Tauer on Zachary Schomburg
[line]I first encountered Zachary Schomburg in springtime on a rooftop bar in downtown New York City, through the voice of another poet. The words hit me like this: [box] . . . . . . . . . . [/box] Which is to say that his work cracked a huge space in my understanding of
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 27 :: Christine Trudeau on James Welch
[line]I was assigned James Welch’s Winter in the Blood a little over a year ago for a class. I was in shock to have just discovered Welch, a key figure for the Native American Renaissance, in my senior year as a
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 26 :: Jeannie Hoag on Sara Teasdale and Edna St. Vincent Millay
[script_teaser]Growing up in my small Wisconsin town, there were four places I loved above all others: the park, the Dairy Queen, the stationery aisle of the drugstore, and the public library.[/script_teaser] When I was 12 or 13, I found among the
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 25 :: Charles Theonia on Joe Brainard's I Remember
[line][h2]Wearing Green and Yellow on Thursday[/h2] Joe Brainard’s memoir I Remember could be a list, a series of prose poems, an associative diary of recollections about growing up queer in the 1940s and ’50s of the Midwest, with some Lower East
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 24 :: The Difference Between the Nautical & Geographical Mile :: Joe Pan on Denis Johnson
[line]I find it difficult to discuss Denis Johnson with any real authority, not because I don’t have anything to say regarding his consummate ability to describe the human traits that render fictional characters three-dimensional, but because Denis Johnson is the
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 23 :: David Moscovich on Laurie Anderson
[line] In this musing, this provocation, convocation, ritual love-letter, selfitaph—Laurie Anderson pins Hulk Hogan with her pinky finger. Why is it called a pinky? Laurie Anderson does not eat jelly roll donuts in this essay. Laurie Anderson K.O’s the homeless guy
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 22 :: Lauren Neefe on Ezra Pound
[line] On or about August 1996, my character changed: I traded a literary dictator for a cultural pariah. It was the summer before my last year of college, when I decided, god help me, to write an honor’s thesis in English. My
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 21 :: Brian Mihok on James Tate
I read some poems from James Tate in 2006. My reaction after just about every one was to look up from the page and spin my head around like an idiot to anything and everyone around me. Who knows where
