Excerpt from _Short Talks_ by Anne Carson

Short Talk on Who You are   I want to know who you are. People talk about a voice calling in the wilder- ness. All through the Old Testament a voice, which is not the voice of God but which

A Little Language I know a little language of my cat, though Dante says that animals have no need of speech and Nature abhors the superfluous. My cat is fluent. He converses when he wants with me. To speak is

Suheir Hammad

Suheir Hammad. My fave poet right now. Hands down. Her book Breaking Poems is still rocking my world.Su

Rachel Blau DuPlessis in The Pink Guitar: The feminine is where I am colonized. The feminine is the dream of an elsewhere, a someplace uncolonized. The feminine is orange/blush/pink/peach/vibrant red “in” this year. The feminine is a short blue one,

Hejinian Hype Continues

Here’s a link to a post on Denise Low‘s blog with recent correspondences between Lyn Hejinian and Billy Joe Harris. Definitely worth checking out. Ran into a friend on campus the other day (a grammarian) who was talking to me

Poetry Buzz in KS: Standing Room Only!

Lyn Hejinian certainly brought on a poetry buzz in Kansas this past week. She gave a reading in the Spencer Art Museum‘s modern art gallery. I was running later than I should have been (as usual) and ran into the