3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 19 :: CASEY SCOTT LEACH ON BILLY COLLINS
The morning I noticed a Billy Collins poem on the subway train, a part of the Poetry In Motion series, I was overcome with joy. “Hell yes!” I thought to…
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 17 :: SPARROW on PHILIP WHALEN
[line] I met Philip Whalen in 1976 at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where I was a student (22 years old). Philip co-taught a class with Allen Ginsberg called…
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 16 :: LAUREL KALLEN on JACQUELINE OSHEROW
In Dead Men’s Praise, Jacqueline Osherow explores the world through her identity as a Jewish-American woman poet of the first post-Holocaust generation. The tensions that define and trouble this identity…
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 15 :: CRISTINA PREDA on LILLIAN-YVONNE BERTRAM
[Editor’s Note: Cristina Preda comes to us via our favorite model: the person to person relay-style hand off from former participants (in this case, frequent OS contributor, and all around…
REMAIN COMPOSED :: MICHAEL LAURELLO :: FIELD NOTES :: The AURA of the JUNO 60: AUTHENTICITY vs. PRACTICALITY
[box]For this special feature in our ongoing Field Notes series (where creators from all disciplines shine light behind the curtain at their daily practice — revealing the often messy, sometimes frustrating, surprisingly…
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 13 :: ANDRE BAGOO on DEREK WALCOTT
Let me take you to the Derek Walcott poem most on my mind these days and then we will continue our conversation: [box] Midsummer, Tobago Broad sun-stoned beaches. White heat.…
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 12 :: ROYCE VAVREK on KATHLEEN EDWARDS
[box]Editor’s note: I am so pleased to have this particular crossover in this year’s series – for it was largely via early attention to Vavrek’s incredible and prolific output as…
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 10 :: CONOR MESSINGER on MICHAEL McCLURE
[textwrap_image align=”right”]http://www.theoperatingsystem.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/photo1-1.jpg[/textwrap_image]Clive Barker’s Hellraiser comes to mind when I try to reexamine Michael McClure. The box, the film’s main plot element, establishes an alluring promise to the observer based on…
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 9 :: MAIGA MILBOURNE on NAZIM HIKMET (1902-1963)
[Editor’s Note: Maiga Milbourne comes to us via our favorite model: the person to person relay-style hand off from former participants (in this case, frequent OS contributor, and all around…
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 8 :: TC TOLBERT on CYNTHIA SPENCER
[h4]There is no god here: Cynthia Spencer, will, speech[/h4] [box] Up the Rig cram righteous, craze lit thun-di-fer-ous lin-ger finnnnnnnnnn whap! surrounding lakes of cherrywood fish, un- rippled with salt,…
