What: Studio One Reading Where: Studio One Art Center, 365 45th Street, Oakland, CA When: Doors-7:00, Reading-7:30 Who: Aaron Kunin and Andrew Maxwell Websites: studioonereadingseries.blogspot.com Contact: Casey McAlduff at caseymcalduff@gmail.com Review by Kevin Kvist Peters, Feature Writer
Category: Essays
Liza Flum reviews Hoa Nguyen’s As Long As Trees Last
Hoa Nguyen As Long As Trees Last Wave Books, September 4, 2012 ISBN: 9781933517612
T. Zachary Cotler: from Elegies for Humanism
The following three essays are excerpts from Cotler’s monograph Elegies for Humanism, which will be published as a book by Rare Bird Books this year. “Outlasting Artifacts” “Transitioning” “World-building”
Chicago Lit Scene: Interzone: A Burroughs Birthday Bash
Review by Lina ramona Vitkauskas, Chicago Correspondent Saturday, November 1, 2014 Interzone: A Burroughs Birthday Bash (Presented by the Chicago Humanities Festival and Lake Forest College) “To celebrate the 100th birthday of America’s most audacious writer, William S. Burroughs, CHF…
T. Zachary Cotler: from Elegies for Humanism
The following three essays are excerpts from Cotler’s monograph Elegies for Humanism, which will be published as a book by Rare Bird Books this year. “Outlasting Artifacts” “Transitioning” “World-building”
Joe Weil: “The Thing About Things: Notes on William Carlos Williams”
There are many poets who enjoy disliking William Carlos Williams. He wrote poems that seem distinguished only by their adherence to the “tossed off.” They make no major claims. They seem jotted off. So why study the man at all?…
T. Zachary Cotler: from Elegies for Humanism
The following three essays are excerpts from Cotler’s monograph Elegies for Humanism, which will be published as a book by Rare Bird Books this year. “Outlasting Artifacts” “Transitioning” “World-building”
Joe Weil: “Looking at Ballad Form, and the Nature of Voice”
One of the things that may irritate a post-structuralist reader about Auden is that he delights in “knowing” things—even those things which are ugly and disastrous to know. For example, his greatest praise of old masters: “About suffering, the old…
Djelloul Marbrook: “Unpunctuation: Enabling Poetry to Sail Close to the Wind”
Forego punctuation and you forego caveat and the ace up your sleeve. Nothing is going to save you from yourself. You’ve entered uncharted waters. Count on there being dragons. You might drop off the end of the earth, or you…
Mary Cisper reviews Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s Hello, The Roses
Hello, the Roses Mei-mei Berssenbrugge New Directions, 2013 ISBN: 9780811220910