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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 20 :: Peter Longofono on Paul Celan
Much—much—has been written on Paul Celan, one of those writers around whom there exists a thick and (at times) stultifying mantle of commentary. I’m going to stab at a personal…
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 19 :: Chia-Lun Chang on Qiong Hong, Modernism and Sexism
Students, like myself, are required to read well-known modern poetry in Taiwan. World War II and the period that followed introduced a new age of poetry in the country. Poetry…
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 18 :: Lauren Klotzman on bpNichol's First Screening
SUBJECT LINE: UNSENT TO Z___ 3/1/15 1:00 PM dear z___- i know that we really just met and maybe things have been a little intense over that extremely short time…
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 17 :: Damon Ferrell Marbut on Andrew Faulkner
Need Machine [Coach House Books, 2013] is a small book of poems I loved immediately. The first two poems seemed as though one were observing a track sprinter stretch…
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 15 :: Clara Lou on Trisha Low
[line] 1. Having been fed a diet of Lonely Girl Phenomenology and politicized autobiography, I endeavor to set IT HAPPENED TO ME in quotation marks, to matrix it, to learn…