Clubs and Societies: The Wayside Chapel Society

by Poetry Blog Editors June 9, 2012 Red Room

This entry is part of a series, Clubs and Societies» I’ve never really known how to write about other people without imposing some kind of “treatment” on them. And I guess it’s not possible to completely avoid imposing a “treatment” – but there are “treatments”, and then there are treatments. I discovered a poem called [...]

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Clubs and Societies: Introduction

by Poetry Blog Editors June 9, 2012 Red Room
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This entry is part of a series, Clubs and Societies» NOTE: Read about THEthe’s collaboration with the Red Room Company here. Across Australia, each state, city, suburb and street autonomously divides itself into thousands of clubs and societies. Sport, politics, art, craft, collectors: people gather voluntarily, outside the confines of their immediate geography, social class [...]

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Poem of the Week: Laren McClung

by Levi Rubeck June 8, 2012 Poems of the Week

FOR IBRAHIM QASHOUSH They found you like a river stone in the Orontes where the people fished you out. And like oil on water you take the tint of all colors. Now a streetwise nation wakes, thousands on the Brooklyn Bridge, down Broadway, Cleveland, L.A., on the lawn of the Capitol jailbreaking our jobs and [...]

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Poetry Comics! Paul Legault

by Bianca Stone June 5, 2012 Poetry Comics

Resources?: 1.: THE SEXIEST CREATIVE GENIUS IN HUMAN HISTORY 2. : an academically rigourous archive of curated .gifs&such from the 90s. 3. : Julia Panek’s TV-poetry-for-an-internet-age. 4. : a technically limitless archive of free, rare, university-press-and-such .pdfs. 5. : an amazing resource for strange high-res scans of “found” images–with a hub in Southern Brooklyn, run [...]

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Poem of the Week: Brian Trimboli

by Levi Rubeck June 1, 2012 Poems of the Week

from (Opera) Asylum 1. ______Here is the proof, ____________everything about me. I couldn’t stop thinking ___________about myself as him, so the revelatory parts of me _____like confetti undropped grew dusty and apologetic. “It isn’t enough _____to tell you any more.” ____________* _____“I’d like to think myself _____a generation who stayed married.” Back here, while walking [...]

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The Petal of My Tongue Keeps Slipping: Darcie Dennigan’s Madame X

by Pia Aliperti May 31, 2012 Reviews

, 2012 We lie in every word. Did I say word? Oh dear. I meant mode. We lie in every mode. Darcie Dennigan, “The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Fraternal Disorder of Historic Linguists or The Error of My Maze” Darcie Dennigan announces in Madame X, her second collection of poetry, that we have been [...]

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Neighborhood post-industrial as opposed to professional aesthetics

by Joe Weil May 30, 2012 Arts & Society

I grew up in a neighborhood where most of the parents worked in factories or trades. The closest anyone came to a professional occupation was Ann Boyle next door who worked as an executive secretary for Bell telephone and, through the great benefits of that monopoly, was able to retire at age 55. Anne never [...]

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Poem of the Week: Kevin Simmonds

by Christopher Phelps May 29, 2012 Poems of the Week

Crude H2 its smothered O circling for sense there is none three-eyed or blind delirious with repair eventually or now _________________________________________________ Kevin Simmonds is a San Francisco-based writer, musician and filmmaker originally from New Orleans. His writing has appeared in jubilat, Kyoto Journal, Massachusetts Review and Poetry. His books include the poetry collection Mad for [...]

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Interview with Colin Winnette, Part 2

by Brian Chappell May 28, 2012 The Other

Brian: My favorite aspect of your novel, one that other “Armageddon” narratives mostly miss, is that the sky may fall, but still nothing is more terrifying than one’s own death (or even one’s own life). I guess this is a statement posing as a question. Colin: I like this. Thanks, Brian. Brian: A writer friend [...]

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An Erotics of Reading: Jennifer Karmin’s “aaaaaaaaaaalice” Reviewed.

by Gene Tanta May 25, 2012 The Other

“Formal choices are never without ideological implications.” Marjorie Perloff From the title on of Jennifer Karmin’s “aaaaaaaaaaalice” (Flim Forum Press, 2010), we are falling—crowning though sentiment and buckshot language splayed across pages. “aaaaaaaaaaalice” is a book grappling to hold on to meaning in the self-fomenting chasm that is our condition. In this way, sentience is [...]

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Poem of the Week: Tony Leuzzi

by Christopher Phelps May 24, 2012 Poems of the Week

The following is from a series of Pi Poems, or Cadae—the alphabetical equivalent of the first five digits of Pi (3.1415). Pi is a transcendental number that is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter approximately equal to 3.1415926535897. In poetry, it has been used as the basis for a syllabic form that [...]

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Interview with Colin Winnette, Part 1

by Brian Chappell May 21, 2012 The Other

The seven sections of Colin Winnette’s slim new novel Revelation correspond to the seven angels of the Book of Revelation. They bring with them fire, hail, receding oceans, bitter water, falling stars (and bodies, in a chilling moment), darkness, locusts, sinkholes, and, of course, those pesky horsemen. The seven sections also depict seven stages of [...]

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Poem of the Week: Andrew Joron

by Christopher Phelps May 17, 2012 The Other

Assumption, The Climb, the Premise, the— What drama _____of the size of signs, of sighs Seized at zero. A dry soul is best _____because combustible— But to stand _____beyond witness, burying the sun _____or else writing fire _____along a circumference of unclosing —this is my faith & my reason. I enter history As a secret [...]

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THEthe Red Room Collaboration

by Poetry Blog Editors May 15, 2012 Red Room
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THEthe Poetry and are teaming up to share poems across the oceans. This collaboration introduces new audiences to the works of emerging and established poets from America and Australia. Weekly installments of poems, interviews and artworks will celebrate poetic observations from Brooklyn to Sydney and places between. The Red Room Company is a not-for-profit poetry [...]

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Garbage Picking in Eliot’s Waste Land, Part 4

by Tom Bair May 14, 2012 Poetry and Poetics

This entry is part of a series, Garbage Picking in The Waste Land» Still, the close reading. Fine. You will have your blasted close reading. However, I will conduct this reading on my own terms. I will shuffle, and play the cards at my whim, sometimes to my detriment. First though, a word on why [...]

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Poem of the Week: Niina Pollari

by Christopher Phelps May 11, 2012 The Other

[Then there is this dream with its other bright edges] Then there is this dream with its other bright edges, a piece of paper spread over the flowering field, thin as a reflection. You know what’s wound tight there, wanting to undo. Even when you don’t look, it is still there, all brazen and sting, [...]

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