NYC Readings Roundup :: May 6 – 12
Editor’s note: welcome to the 10th iteration of our new weekly series, the Readings Roundup…which you might notice is growing steadily! Sorry if I’m repeating myself to some of you but if this is your first time here it bears
MAY 3-4 :: CHAPBOOK FESTIVAL and PRINT! DOCUMENT SERIES 1 READING at MELLOW PAGES
Poetry month has come to a close, but the poetry is still flowing all around us. This weekend will be packed full of amazing events. Exit Strata will be tabling at CUNY's 5th annual Chapbook Festival. The two day event
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 29 :: MORGAN VO on MINA LOY
“I was trying,” Mina Loy observed in 1927, with reference to her polyglot, punning, scholastic, asyntactic, unpunctuated free-verse poems, “to make a foreign language, because English had already been used.” Read more: http://marjorieperloff.com/reviews/loy-mysteries/#ixzz2Rp0FfojT Under Creative Commons License: Attribution from Morgan Vo, on and of Mina
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 28 :: BUD BERKICH on WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
William Carlos Williams: Backyard Artist I first experienced the poetry of William Carlos Williams in the fall of 1994, as an English major at Rutgers College. For me, it was an unforgettable experience. Williams' poetry shaped my own writing and philosophy
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 27 :: BENJAMIN WIESSNER on HARRYETTE MULLEN
I am going to start with an admission—I have a deep and varied past with the poetry of Harryette Mullen. Her masterpiece, Sleeping with the Dictionary, opened my eyes to so many possibilities in poetry. The experience I had is described best by her line, “I’ve been licked all over by the English tongue.”
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 23 :: JULIET P. HOWARD on PAT PARKER
I first discovered the phenomenal poet Pat Parker (1944-1989) in my early 20’s and immediately fell in love with her poetry. I discovered her poetry around the same time that she passed away, so unfortunately I never had the opportunity
2nd Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 21 :: LUZ SANCHEZ on FOROUGH FARROKHZAHD
I like to believe I've always been a woman of culture, a student ready to learn about the world, a kid who might still believe that for as much as we are all so very different we are also so
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 20 :: MICHAEL BROEK ON CHOOSING and CREELEY
I’m thinking about all the magnificent souls I’ve been reading lately and just, also, enjoying the pleasure of sidling up next to at the humble mid-20th century bar in my suburban Atomic Ranch, following a reading at my college, an
2nd Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 16 :: JEFFREY GRUNTHANER on JOHN FORBES
I discovered the poetry of John Forbes during an especially precarious period of my life. Not that things have become more stabilized since, yet there’s something about injecting excessive amounts of cocaine and staying up lateLateLATE for nights on end—following
NYC Readings Roundup :: April 15-21
Editor’s note: welcome to the 8th iteration of our new weekly series, the Readings Roundup…which you might notice is growing steadily! Sorry if I’m repeating myself to some of you but if this is your first time here it bears