3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 11 :: ELIZA BLUE on MARIE HOWE
It is a Saturday, and I am kneading bread in a little kitchen in rural South Dakota. I am a month away from getting kicked out by my boyfriend’s parents, who own the place, because he is leaving to start
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 curiosity, the glow of technology, intrigue, craft, only to show
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 badass inspirational mama Caits Meissner). I was overwhelmed with gratitude
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, un-rivaled clarity of rough munching signal. fit. liable to riot a winter from yr wilting morass. yr filched
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 7 :: SHIVANEE RAMLOCHAN on VAHNI CAPILDEO
[Editor's note: in July of 2012, we received a submission for our print magazine from Andre Bagoo, who introduced himself as "a poet and journalist working in Trinidad and Tobago." I loved his poems, and accepted one for the second
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 6 :: DIA FELIX on PHILIP LAMANTIA
[Editor's note: It is total synchrony that sees this post going live the weekend Dia's is in NY, kicking off a multi-city tour with City Lights / Sister Spit to promote her new book on that imprint, Nochita. Missed her at the
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 5 :: EDWARD TONEY on LOUIS REYES RIVERA
Are You With Me? (Louis Reyes Rivera 1945 - 2012) from ivarad on Vimeo. [Thanks to 30/30/30 2013 participant, JP Howard, for bringing us Edward Toney for this year's series! Here's JP's wonderful piece on Pat Parker. We love person to
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30:: DAY 4 :: LAURA HENRIKSEN on HELEN ADAM (1909-1993)
[Editor's note: I've loved Helen Adam ever since I heard an excerpt of the above, her "Cheerless Junkie's Song," podcast back in 2007. I was happy to find this rare video footage of her singing the song on the
3rd Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 3 :: BARRETT WARNER on KEITH DOUGLAS (1920-1944)
The first poems or stories anyone writes are often letters, which is why young letters—those written before the writer has developed his genre and style and voice—are helpful when looking at a mature author. Included in the Keith Douglas archive
3rd Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 2 :: ALYSSE KATHLEEN McCANNA on DIANE GILLIAM FISHER
Descend into the dark earth to make your meager living. Identify your spouse in a pile of bodies by some intimate detail no one else knows. Watch as the frosty morning pales your baby’s face as you are forced from
