TIME IS RUNNING OUT to SUPPORT THE FOURTH ANNUAL NYC POETRY FESTIVAL
There are certain visions that become tangible in such a way as to appear simply as though they are naturally occurring – institutions and events, in particular, can appear to…
REMAIN COMPOSED :: KRISTINA WARREN :: FIELD NOTES :: PRODUCTION AND GROOVE :: GRANULATION A LA LOOPSLIDER (PART 2)
[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 30 :: PENINA ROTH on MARGARET ATWOOD
[line] I was attending a yeshiva high school in suburban Maryland when I first encountered Margaret Atwood’s striking poem “You Fit Into Me.” Our 11th grade English teacher, Mrs. Gretsch,…
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 28 :: BARRETT WARNER on RUSSELL EDSON's 'SHEET MUSIC'
[box]He was advancing into featherhood. At first a little eiderdown in the middle of his chest. Then some good-sized feathers coming out of his elbows. He wondered if there…
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 27 :: BEN WIESSNER on TONY HOAGLAND
There are books of poetry that have played large parts in periods of my life, the call and response of certain life events or challenges. The book that has remained…
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 26 :: PETER MILNE GREINER on RICHARD BRAUTIGAN and THE SINGULARITY
[box] All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually…
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 25 :: M. KROCHMALNIK GRABOIS on CHARLES BUKOWSKI :: John Fante Was L.A. and Bukowski Was L.A. and I Am L.A.
[box]Editor’s note: Sometime early this year, I’d been corresponding with a new contributor about the upcoming print magazine, and invited him to submit a piece for this year’s series. This…
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 24 :: SHANNON CAMLIN WARD on MICHAEL COLONNESE
[box] Unless You Have One Hell of an Imagination* You probably had to be there to appreciate the acrid stench of melting latex and the various grades and densities of…
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 22 :: MC HYLAND on WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
So much of the uninteresting poetry that followed him can be blamed on Wordsworth. In the introduction to Lyrical Ballads alone, his insistence on using “a selection of the language…
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 21 :: VAHNI CAPILDEO on NICHOLAS LAUGHLIN :: AT FULL ARIEL TILT
The writing looks hieroglyphic: all caps. The envelope opens to release a Persian lion; a dancing rabbit; an Ethiopian prayerbook half the size of a matchbox; or, again and again,…