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I wrote this with David Buuck and then Tarpaulin Sky Press published it. This is the small plot of land.
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Last few days unable to stop reading Yvonne Rainer's Feelings are Facts: a Life. SY had already discussed her inability to stop reading it with me a few years ago. Then DB handed it to me to read. I...
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Reading through the Petroleuse Press pamphlets. I am collecting the moments where women’s role in various struggle is mentioned. I am working on a spreadsheet. Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma Jones,...
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Also, wrote this for elective affinities. And argued with Joshua Clover and Chris Nealon at Evening Will Come.
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This week, loving Dana Ward, The Squeakquel, parts 1 & 2."I should mention," I added with a stiff upper lip, "that my poem begins with a quotation from Franco 'Bifo' Berardi--'The Social content of...
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I’m not sure this is worth mentioning, but the quote by me that is called a “negative review” by Vanessa Place is out of context. The words are all mine but they are part of a discussion with Perloff...
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This week, loving Donato Mancini's Buffet World. Last week, loving Chris Nealon's The Matter of Capital: "And I hope to have at least suggested to my friends on the academic and poetic left that it is...
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DB gave me "All the Rage" by Bob Ostertag to read. "I want All the Rage to be a piece that speaks to a general, human anger anyone can feel. But first and foremost I want it to be a piece for queers. I...
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Spending next week on these four things:Rosmarie Waldrop, "Alarms & Excursions"Bertolt Brecht, "Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties"Theodor Adorno, "Commitment"Alan Badiou, "Fifteen Theses on...
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Among the things I've been reading lately, this week loving Catherine Meng's Pure War: I'm Not Writing This is a Grocery List. At least I think that is the title. There is a refrain of "available...
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National Endowment for the Arts Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families, ed by Andrew Carroll begins with an "I remember..." poem.
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The Poets Laureate Anthology in association with the Library of Congress, edited by Elizabeth Hun Schmidt includes James Dickey's poem "Adultery" and Louis Untermeyer's "Infidelity." And a poem by...
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A man waves at himself in the mirror while tying his tie. "The Necktie." Ted Kooser. Delights & Shadows.
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"Today I read poems, I write poems, and at times, yes, sometimes for hours on end, I forget about women." Ted Kooser, "A Poet's Job Description" in The Poetry Home Repair Model: Practical Advice for...
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I am filing the letters J, K, and L. Then I moved M. Leaving the Antocha Station, Ben Lerner. Self-mocking literary autobiography. American poet in Spain on a fellowship to write a long poem about the...
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What FTP Means to MeIn late December of 2011, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) began pulling people out of the crowd at Oscar Grant Plaza (OGP), the gathering place for Occupy Oakland (OO), for no...
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"3. Abomunists demand the abolition of Oakland." --Bob Kaufman, "Abomunist Election Manifesto." and"What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say literature." --Henry Millerthanks...
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I intend to go to the office next to mine to ask some absurd unanswerable question about the body and growing old and being female but I forget to do this and instead I talk some more about the...
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"Index" for Under Underat Konsthall C in Stockholm, Sweden by David Buuck and Juliana Spahrimages by Mikael Lundbergwall text:One thousand, nine hundred and ten. Twelve thousand, seven hundred and...
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Talk for MLA 2012 panel on "Poet Scholar." I have an autobiographical relation to the poet scholar category. I wanted to be a poet. I went and got a PhD in English with the idea that even the TA line...
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English 204: Craft of PoetryLast year when we revised the craft curriculum, we designed a two semester craft sequence for first year students. This is the second semester of that. Loosely, the first...
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KRAFT OF FOETRY, version fall 2014Last year when we revised the craft curriculum, we designed a two semester craft sequence for first year students. The first semester is to be an introduction to the...
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