2nd ANNUAL 30/30/30 :: DAY 7 :: JOEL ALLEGRETTI ON LEONARD COHEN
The famous doctor held up Grandma’s stomach. Cancer! Cancer! he cried out. “I Wanted to Be a Doctor” * The pain-monger came home from a hard day’s torture. “The Failure…
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 6 :: UCHE NDUKA on FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER
The poems of Friederike Mayrocker are instances of suspense of a peculiar sort. They luxuriate in thematic and stylistic instability. She handles the unknowability inherent in life with both delicacy…
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 5 :: ANDRE BAGOO IN DEFENSE OF DH LAWRENCE
IT UNCOILS itself slowly. Only after a good few years do you realise that D.H. Lawrence’s great poem ‘Snake’ has never quite left you – first read so innocently in…
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 4 :: FARZANA MARIE ON MIKHAIL, CARPENTER, AZZIZADA and POETRY IN SOCIAL CONFLICT
How does poetry grapple with the conflicts and social issues of our time? What can a poem do in the face of rocket-thuds, choking smoke, a child’s pink sandal in…
AWESOME CREATOR :: MYCELIUM'S MATTHEW ABRAMS AND THE EVOLUTION OF EDUCATION
We are honored to introduce The Operating System community to Mycelium school founder, educator, forward thinker, instigator, entrepreneur, lifehacker Matthew Abrams today as part of our ongoing Awesome Creator series.…
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 3 :: RYAN NOWLIN on NORMA COLE
Norma Cole, an experimental poet and visual artist who has lived in the Bay Area since 1977, has received great acclaim for, as she puts it, her “openness to traditions…
RE:CONVERSATIONS :: it's a MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD LIB[rary] :: April 4th at ICI Curatorial Hub
Editor’s note: What follows is an experiment of sorts with the curators of MAD LIBrary, where we’ve used a shared google document for a time-unbound/nonlinear conversation on the project’s intentions…
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 : DAY 2 :: Gary Sloboda on Buck Downs
Sifting the Workflow: A Comment On The Poetry of Buck Downs Buck Downs is a Washington D.C. poet whose work I’ve been reading for years. Downs’ poetry arrives, old school,…
2nd Annual 30/30/30 Poetry Month Series :: Inspiration, Community, Tradition :: Day 1 :: Overview / Editor Lynne DeSilva-Johnson on Noah Eli Gordon and Anis Mojgani
The fisherman from Anis Mojgani on Vimeo. HOOOOOOOWOW! Poetry month is upon us once more, and do we ever have a line up for you this year! Last year we…
NEW SERIES ANNOUCEMENT :: [RE:CON]VERSATIONS
reconnaissance (n.) 1810, from French reconnaissance “act of surveying,” literally “recognition,” from Old French reconoissance (see recognizance). U.S. military abbreviation recon is attested from 1918. conversation (n.) mid-14c., “living together, having dealings with others,” also “manner of conducting…