Category: Essays

Elena Karina Byrne: “Voyeur Hour”

Looking and looking causes time to open. —Mark Doty I love his eyes. They are little larger than what he sees. —Paul Valery Our eyes have become voracious like mouths. —Ann Hamilton

Mary Cisper reviews Lisa Fishman’s 24 Pages and other poems

24 Pages and other poems Lisa Fishman Wave Books, 2015 ISBN: 9781940696102

Elena Karina Byrne: “THE ORPHAN OF SILENCE (An Interrupted Essay)”

I just knew they had to be silent… the pain is not out in the room, the pain in ourselves is invisible, inside ourselves. –– Bill Viola

Pablo Lopez: “NOTE ON THE POEM AS A SITE OF UNINTERRUPTED INTERSECTIONS”

Poiein: to make. No matter the numerous etymological routes, one arrives at to make. The emphasis is not on the maker. The maker: the poet, though active, is not the action. The making is the thing. The all-important thing: performing…

Geoffrey G. O’Brien: Canceled Pastoral: Ashbery’s “The Instruction Manual” and Genre Responsibility

This essay was originally delivered as a talk at Saint Mary’s College, September 16, 2015. The poet and critic Allen Grossman has said that poetry addresses itself to two fundamental problems or limits: death and the barrier of other people’s…

LM Rivera: SOME IMPRESSIONS ON ADMITTANCE

Bay Area Lit Scene: Studio One Reading Series

What: Studio One Reading Series When: December 4th, 2015 Where: Studio One Art Center, 365 45th Street, Oakland, CA Websites: studioonereadingseries.blogspot.com Contact: caseymcalduff@gmail.com Review by Kevin Kvist Peters, Bay Area Lit Scene Editor.

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