I asked the poet to talk with me a little bit about the genesis and refinement of her new book, , which is excerpted today at Poetry Blog. (And please see the end of the Q&A for a brief note from her publisher about his grassroots micropress, Grand Concourse!) Fox Frazier-Foley: I really loved this [...]
Letter One Dear Continuum: I got an issue of Poets and Writers in the mail yesterday. I enjoyed what I read, but it was not inspiring at all. It was realistic. It was honest about the uphill battle it is to get a book seen. I know the work of this all too well. But [...]
Deep in a forest in the Northernmost part of Vietnam, in a Vietcong reeducation camp, my father watched to see if the chili peppers would spin in the clear water. If the peppers were still, then the water was not poisonous. Father said the best way to get water was to cut a bamboo tree [...]
Phantasmagoric Bed Time Story: Otherworldly Shifts Bring Us Back Home In Elizabeth Cantwell’s debut poetry collection, Nights I Let the Tiger Get You (Black Lawrence Press, 2014), we traverse dangers across a tangible universe and seek respite in dream-like interludes; both planes of existence feel familiar. A child pets a fawn. Then a body is [...]
I asked Bay Area slam poet B Deep to share some of his amazing spoken-word pieces with us in the Infoxicated Corner. Thrilled to be including some work by STAGE poets as well as all the PAGE poets we’ve been blessed to host. Enjoy these three performances, below! Brennan/ ‘B Deep’ DeFrisco likes words and [...]
I asked poet and tattoo artist Ruth Awad to share some of her favorite pieces she’s done with us in our most Infoxicated of internet Corners. The results are so fabulous. Check out these samples of her tattoo work, as well as a poem by her that she says is her current favorite! I couldn’t [...]
NOCTURNE IN WHICH WE FAIL YET AGAIN TO HAVE SEX IN YOUR PARENTS’ HOT TUB Your breasts at the surface of the roiling water. The smell of chlorine and desire. We divide and assign the space between us. Your specialty is keeping score, mine is pretending not to. We are not supposed to stay in [...]
The Size of Things, Decreasing Scale 1) An invitation 2) The gap between the door open and latched 3) Your open hand resting on my hip 4) Kittens past weaning 5) This human heart quickening 6) A young fist full of garden dirt 7) The curve of your lips 8) The tip of my finger [...]
All The Rage: The Fashion in Our Fury is Little More than a Refusal to Engage by Saba Razvi Slate.com features a gallery on its website called “The Year of Outrage,” in which it showcases a breakdown of the trending topic of outrage for each day of the year 2014. Yes, that’s right – each [...]
Letter from the Back Porch Quiet things are passageways to other quiet things. One cracks, another grows. Grass gives up to dust. Somewhere, clocks advance while other clocks reverse, the hissing continuous, a slow release. I would never ask you to come back as I don’t contain ideas like come back or I, or you. [...]
The World Is at Stake: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Internet Activism, and Reverberations in the Hyperbolic Chamber by Saumya Arya Haas “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.” (Translation: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”) – Bad Latin / necessary advice from Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale As a long-time Science Fiction/Fantasy (SF/F) fan, I’ve been following the controversy over [...]
Some Things Never Change: Outrage and Persuasion in Online Literary Debate by Michael Simon Recent events have provided plenty of opportunities to diagnose the culture of debate in our online literary communities, as well on the Internet more generally, from the controversial essay by Elizabeth Ellen at Hobart to the conversations prompted by Jesse Bradley’s [...]
On Prioritizing My Rage by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie To tell the truth spaceship can’t be so bad…I been on earth all my life and all my life I been mad. -Henry Dumas According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, outrage and I have been close friends for some time. Outrage: an extremely strong reaction of anger, shock [...]
We, the Riffraff: Why Feminism Needs Outrage, Focus, and Civility by Lynn Melnick Believe me, I’m exhausted with all the quick-fire, shallow, inconsistent, unfocused outrage that regularly appears on social media. The act of, say, “unfriending” someone, while often a wise move, is not actual activism and I’m weary of “activists” who find a Facebook [...]
This week, TheThe’s Infoxicated Corner will be hosting the essay panel All These Things Are True. This panel has been six months in the making, and I’m really excited to be able to share it with everyone. I will be publishing one essay per day, Monday through Friday, in which five panelists will share their [...]
Better Than Television Her ankles swole up and she leaned on a sprinkler key like a cane. My husband and me had separate beds, she said, but the rug was wore out between ’em. Will’s White Hen He carried her under his arm but when he found her with her feet up in the air [...]
