Monthly Archive: January 2006

some linh dinh online

Linh Dinh on the Pew Arts website. Go to “samples” link for poems. I like “Slow Tribe.”

no babies in poetry then

There were no babies in poetry then. How could that have been? What are we leaving out now? Usually what’s exactly in front of the eyes ears nose and mouth, in front of the...

some ideology for the new year

• Poetry, like other interventions in language, is political. • Political poetry is a poetry of public (polis/publica) intervention, invention, and invocation that calls on (and up) language to call out a public, a...

two architectural ideas

a photo of a collection of erasers arranged to resemble what a small city of erasers would look like a collection of photos of enigmatic structures

loving the name of anything

Poetry is I say essentially a vocabulary just as prose is essentially not. And what is the vocabulary of which poetry absolutely is. It is a vocabulary based on the noun as prose is...

my avocado rose

my avocado rose in her indelible recipe my disastrous late offends her purple equanimity