Robert Grenier at KWH

Reblogged from The VOLTA Blog: Robert Grienier was at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kelly Writer’s House earlier this week presenting some of his drawing—or “scrawl” as phrased above—poems. Make your Continue reading →

KG in WSJ

Reblogged from The VOLTA Blog: As the Inaugural MOMA poet laureate, Kenny Goldsmith has an interview in the Wall Street Journal. Its mass-media discussion of conceptual poetics is pretty amazing. Continue reading →

O mirror!

from Mallarme’s Herodias “O mirror! … I appeared in you like a faraway shadow, But, horror! Some evenings, in your severe pool, I have discovered the nakedness of my scattered Continue reading →

Noise

midwinter:::: day:::::

  The end never came under a green halo that promised a night frozen forever, an underworld shadowed with creatures that stir innocent as field mice awaiting Await! we stare Continue reading →

bound limitless:::channeling Emily –

it seems that there is a theme running through my life now — silence, solace, solitude… perhaps influenced by a few days off last week from libraryland allowing a bit Continue reading →

talk –

we need we need to we need to talk we need to talk about we need to talk about violence we need we need to we need to talk we Continue reading →

the fall of eve

I wish to highlight a thread that has been discussed a bit over at ModPo. It is rather sad, most peeps have disbanded the site, moved on — I tried, Continue reading →

1 2 1 2 1 2

a bit of chance operations with the random ordering of this book stack; rather amusing, noticing this morning that if one takes two titles at a time it almost makes Continue reading →

.:.:::..:..:…::::sn..:o

There is a comfort in snow. Even the digitized snow that falls upon this blog harkens a romanticized notion. This has nothing to do with what this post is about, Continue reading →