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Ur Poems: Emily Vogel

by Emily Vogel February 4, 2011 Header

What inspires us to write poetry? I would think that the commonly accepted assumption about poets is that if one is a poet, he or she has always been a poet. The obvious question which should follow this then is “Can someone be a poet without having any knowledge of poetry?” “Are we born poets?” [...]

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Painting Larry Fagin (Plus a Fagin Poem!)

by Simone Kearney January 18, 2011 Art

This entry is part of a series, Paintings of Poets» Entries in this series: Painting Larry Fagin (Plus a Fagin Poem!) Share this: Related Posts The Lost Painting

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Gatekeepers of Literary Greatness

by Joe Weil December 8, 2010 Academia

I am excited about the prospect of teaching a course in which students will be given an opportunity to dismantle certain suppositions, while at the same time studying the mechanisms of dismantling which we call literary movements, and literary greatness. First, what is a gatekeeper? What gate does he keep? And what is the literary [...]

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Poem of the Week Doubleheader! Colie Hoffman & Maya Funaro

by Micah Towery November 25, 2010 Header

Today we’re featuring two poets who I have an incredible amount of admiration and who I am very excited to share with you today. I did want to write a brief observation about what I believe both these poems–different as they are–share in common: both are built around a relational core of emotions; both poems [...]

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Poem of the Week: Rosanne Wasserman “Limits”

by Micah Towery November 18, 2010 Header

I’m happy to announce that we are rebooting our Poem of the Week feature here at THEthe. Every Thursday, THEthe will post a poem by an author that an editor has solicited. Every month, one of our contributors takes a turn at being the editor. Hopefully this will guarantee a nice diversity of tastes and [...]

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Translation is Treason

by Stewart K. Lundy November 17, 2010 Header

Entering a new language is entering a new world. But what does it mean to be “in” a world? The word “in” originally had no spatial connotations. To say that someone was “in” something meant that they existed “in anger” or “in love.” Love and anger are not places, but modes of being. But this [...]

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A Ghost (Sonnet) in Gene Tanta’s “Unusual Woods”

by Brooks Lampe November 8, 2010 Header

Last time, we saw that in his critical introduction to , Gene Tanta wants us to approach his poetry both as immigrant poetry (which means a couple of things) and for its aesthetic value. I postulated that he accomplishes a dialectic between “local” and “universal” through strategies that extend and enrich Deep Image and surrealist [...]

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Metaphor as Foundation of Consciousness

by Joe Weil November 1, 2010 Header
Derangement: Breton and Metaphor

This entry is part of a series, Joe Weil on Metaphor» In my next several posts, I am going to talk about metaphors and the invisible neutrino of “and” that lies beneath them. I will make the following contentions: 1. Metaphors are as much about disassociation as association 2. Metaphors generate subtexts. 3. Consciousness and [...]

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Andrei Tarkovsky and the Visionary Experience

by Stewart K. Lundy October 31, 2010 Art

Ingmar Bergman called Tarkovsky, “the greatest.” It’s hard to argue with Bergman. While Tarkovsky is not a well-enough known director, this is probably just as well because virtually anything popular becomes bastardized. Tarkovsky will probably never be “popular” simply because of the interminable length and oppressive mood of his films. Tarkovsky created most of his [...]

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Gene Tanta’s Illuminated Chapbook

by Micah Towery October 1, 2010 Header
The Cartographer Electric is Dead

A few years back, I met at a writing conference in Binghamton, NY. We ended up talking metaphysics and Marxism and Beat poetics deep into the night. After Gene left, we kept in touch and Gene ended up contributing to The Cartographer Electric! the magazine I helped found as an undergrad at Binghamton. After I [...]

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