Commonplace Book: “Steam Shovel,” by Kirby Congdon
“the steam shovel, dry, vomits stone” Continue reading Commonplace Book: “Steam Shovel,” by Kirby Congdon
Tag: fiction
Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 4: Notes Towards Canon(s) of Intersectionality
This is my personal attempt to construct a Canon of Intersectionality. Continue reading Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 4: Notes Towards Canon(s) of Intersectionality
Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 3: LGBT / POC / Disability / First Books — Part 3a
Colgate, through the use of accessibility symbology, turns what would be a standard collection of poems into a simulacra of a museum visit. Continue reading Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 3: LGBT / POC / Disability / First Books — Part 3a
Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 3: LGBT / POC / Disability / First Books
The Relativity of Living Well, by Ashna Ali, is an angry and tender poetic screed written in the dark shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. Continue reading Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 3: LGBT / POC / Disability / First Books
Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 2: Personal Taste(s)
Dances with Wolves was a terrible movie. Continue reading Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 2: Personal Taste(s)
Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 1: Introduction
Normal is a trap. It’s also boring. Continue reading Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 1: Introduction
Espresso Shots: Perestroika: An Eye For an Eye, A Tooth For a Tooth, by João Cerqueira
Perestroika is a powerful fable about the liberating nature of art and the desire for representative democracy. It is dulled by endless monologuing by cardboard characters. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Perestroika: An Eye For an Eye, A Tooth For a Tooth, by João Cerqueira
Espresso Shots: Hypochondria, by Will Rees
Hypochondria by Will Rees is his attempt to chronicle his condition and an exploration of the phenomenon known as hypochondria. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Hypochondria, by Will Rees
Wednesday Poetry Corner: At the End of the World There Is a Pond: Poems, by Steven Duong @ NYJB
“Love and death, suffering and addiction, family and displacement, all become interwoven into a commentary on the present intractable mess. Duong’s poetry assesses the situation with a jaundiced eye, yet his perspective also includes a stubborn hopefulness.” Continue reading Wednesday Poetry Corner: At the End of the World There Is a Pond: Poems, by Steven Duong @ NYJB
CRITICAL APPRAISALS: RADICAL VOICES: CASCELLA, ROBERTSON, BROSSARD, Part 3
Singed can be seen as a chimera and a rhizomatic desiring-machine. Continue reading CRITICAL APPRAISALS: RADICAL VOICES: CASCELLA, ROBERTSON, BROSSARD, Part 3
The Driftless Area Review 