Thank you to Baest for publishing
CENTURION FACE
THIS IS THE FIRST DAY OF OUR LIVES!
WISDOM OF THE DESERT
and Hyperallergic for publishing BLOOD OF A POET (pairing it with a wonderful Elaine de Kooning)
and POFO for doing this short podcast for I SAW THIS DAY COMING.
Elaine de Kooning’s “Bullfight” (1959) at the Denver Art Museum (photo by Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic)
Read Nick Sturm’s review of A YEAR FROM TODAY in his essay “What Else Might Be Available”: Three Contemporary Lineages of the Poetry Project where he also writes about Simone White and Edmund Berrigan.
To read my posts for Futurepoem’s blog go here: COHERENCE FOR ONE AND ALL and here: ANTIPOETRY
Everyone
gets
lighter
everyone
gets lighter
everyone gets
lighter
everyone gets lighter,
everyone is light.
I’m thinking of John Giorno this morning after receiving the news that he passed.
It was an honor to read a poem I dedicated to him for an “I Love John Giorno” event in 2017 in NYC. I’m posting a link to it, as well as for a short piece I wrote about him for The Brooklyn Rail.
Photo credit: Ted Roeder
Giorno at The Poetry Project’s event “Spring Thing” on May 9, 2015.
Mid hriff is an occasional poetry mag I edited and printed this summer. To mark my 50th birthday, I asked some friends and age peers whose work vitalizes me to send me poems that have something to do with the experience of middle life. Mid hriff “is Robert Duncan’s riff on “midriff” in “The Torso: Passages 18. If you'd like a copy send me a message.
The Selected Poems of Michael Field
Foreword by Stacy Szymaszek
In her foreword, poet Stacy Szymaszek writes, “Field’s work is organized around body logic—experience, making a spectacle of one’s own life, beauty and giving pleasure. In the grips of our current political disaster, it may not carry a lot of weight to think one’s work it important for such things. Yet work that excites my mind-body helps remind me that I am an erotic being. When I proceed through life as my best erotic self, I am harder for the law to control, i.e., making a spectacle of myself, others can see me. There is always the hope that Emily Dickinson expressed: “Are you nobody too?” I step out of convention for community, and that action is the enemy of fascism.”
“The Deer Are Eating the Pumpkins”by Stacy Szymaszek
Screen print, 12 x 18″
Limited edition of 100
Designed and printed by Lane Sell, Shoestring Press for Belladonna* Series, March 2019