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To mark World Poetry Day, we pay homage to Lenore Kandel, a rare feminist voice in the literary counterculture of the 1960s
The following is adapted from the introduction to Wait Till I'm Dead, the first new collection of Allen Ginsberg's poetry in over 15 years. More than
1 Reverse the book in duration. What does that mean? I am writing
Handwritten Preface to Reverse the Book Related Poem Content Details By Bhanu Kapil 1 Reverse the book in duration. What does that mean? I am writing to you. These notes now when it’s too late. 2 If the cyborg you read about in bookstores is an immigrant from Mexico crossing into the U.S. beneath a floodlit court, then mine is a Punjabi-British hitchhiker on a JI visa. This is tunneling as seen from a satellite—sort of concave warp in the dirt of the line. 3 She lives in a house with others, including animals, creating individual spaces of companionship and ardor. What happens when this domestic life grows suspect? When the grass reverts in its granular drag to the subject of architecture: the failure of a house to believe in its occupants?
Emmy Hennings
“There outside lies the world, there roars life, there men may go where they will, once we belonged to them, and now we are forgotten, sucked into oblivion, at night we dream of miracle on narrow beds, by day we go around like frightened animals, we peep out sadly through the iron grating, and have nothing more to lose...” Emmy Hennings
Michael Dennis Poet from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
By Pamela Twining The ‘Road’ mythology inspired by the Beat insurgency spoke to youth in general, and female characters like MaryLou and Romana Swartz spoke to young women, in particular, of women free-spirited and adventurous, of the excitement of being in the middle of the erotic and creative energy of the Beat scene, possibilities unknown…
Classic Walpurgis Night 1 - Olga Tobreluts Since the very beginning of the Modern Movement, in the early years of the 20th century, Russia has been famous for the creativity of its female artists. The names of Natalia Goncharova, Alexandra Exter, Liubov Popova and Zinaida Serebriakova continue to resonate and the most famous sculpture produced by the Soviet regime, Worker and Kolkhoz Girl, is also the work of a woman - Vera Mukhina. Our upcoming exhibition will feature work by artists living in Russia itself, in Britain, and in Western Europe. This is in step with the fact that Russian Modernists of all generations have tended to be nomadic, while never losing touch with their own cultural traditions. It throws new light on the way in which Russian art has been developing in the post-Soviet epoch. The exhibition is curated by Sergei Reviakin and Edward Lucie-Smith. Always in the Vanguard - Women Artists In and Out of Russia in the 21st Century 02 November 2013 – 30 November 2013 The New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge, UK
Via Caroline Claeys
photo of Richard Olafson, editor and publisher, by Ann Sokoloff
Lenore Kandel lived when she did and where she did, and recorded her experience with honesty and beauty. She was definitely a product of her times, but more, Lenore Kandel has been a voice for love, for light and in her words, the “ecstatic access of enlightenment. My favorite word is YES.” She was not a self-promoter and due to her later reclusiveness, her legacy is somewhat shadowy. Perhaps this fine collection will rightfully revive her place in the world of poetry. review by Judith Roche
The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.
The life and poetry of French poet Arthur Rimbaud. His relationship with Paul Verlaine. News and art around the poet, photos galleries, documents, letters, places, lexicon, trombinoscope, forum and internal search engine.
Via Ashley Bovan
Sometimes a radical poet has to wait for a radical critic. She has found one
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You'd be forgiven for assuming that the Bauhaus, the modern art and design movement that emerged from the eponymous German art school in the 1920s and 30s, didn't involve many women.
About Chris Murray Chris Murray is an Irish poet. Her chapbook Three Red Things was published by Smithereens Press in June 2013. A small collection of interrelated poems in series and sequence, Cycles, was published by Lapwing Press in autumn 2013. A book-length poem, The Blind, was published by Oneiros Books in 2013. Her second book-length poem, She, was published by Oneiros in spring 2014. A chapbook, Signature, was published by Bone Orchard Press in March 2014. “A Modern Encounter with ‘Foebus abierat’: On Eavan Boland’s 'Phoebus Was Gone, all Gone, His Journey Over' " was published in Eavan Boland: Inside History (Editors: Nessa O’Mahony and Siobhán Campbell) by Arlen House in 2016. - See more at: http://composejournal.com/articles/chris-murray-two-poems/#sthash.871RbceT.dpuf
Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva (also Marina Cvetaeva and Marina Tsvetayeva) was born in Moscow. Her father was a professor and founder of the Museum of Fine Arts, and her mother, who died of tuberculosis when Marina was 14, was a concert pianist. At the age of 18 Tsvetaeva published her first collection of poems, Evening Album. During her lifetime she wrote poems, verse plays, and prose pieces; she is considered one of the most renowned poets of 20th-century Russia.Tsvetaeva’s life coincided with turbulent years in Russian history. She married Sergei Efron in 1912; they had two daughters and later one son. Efron joined the White Army, and Tsvetaeva was separated from him during the Civil War. She had a brief love affair with Osip Mandelstam, and a longer relationship with Sofia Parnok. During the Moscow famine, Tsvetaeva was forced to place her daughters in a state orphanage, where th
MICHAEL ANNIS—poet, writer, playwright, radio commentator, founder & senior editor of Howling Dog Press—has published many of the world’s modern giants of fiction, drama, poetry and art. His projects-in-process include Brave New World Order [1994 CO Gov. Arts Award, Literature; revised/expanded 2015-2017; illustrated by David Allen Reed], Howling at the End of the Wor(l)ds (collected poetry, Vols. I, II, III), and The White Rose of Stalingrad (screenplay). In 1986, his full-length drama, Voices in Soft Sculpture, was produced on the national Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon, and starred actor John Savage. In 2007, he edited, designed, and published Cost of Freedom: The Anthology of Peace & Activism, featuring over 100 artists, poets, and writers from the US/Canada, that received written accolades by Harry Belafonte, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Howard Zinn, Pete Seeger, Attorney Gen. Ramsey Clark, and Thom Hartmann, among others. Michael is the creator of the OMEGA series of online anthologies, including the forthcoming OMEGA8: Clan Between the Wor)l(ds. Since 2013 he has been the Denver Metro Producer for the annual international literary/arts festival “100,000 Poets for Change.” He is the Literary Director of CHURN magazine, and has judged several different state literary awards competitions.
The form "of being there" that readers of the now-called "Beat Generation" encounter differs vastly from what it was to be there. And "being there" - as a body in those spaces and amongst those signature productions textual, social and psychological - once one is there, is easy; but being able to say "what [one] wanted to say," and being heard, is another thing altogether. Joanne Kyger, unlike many women of her generation who wrote, had the rare - gift? opportunity? wherewithall? - to have been "taken up" by male writers who 'made' the places where poetry was made; literally, Joe Dunn and John Wieners, she will tell you, both young poets themselves, took her to the Sunday Meetings where Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer reigned. At a time when there were few poetry magazines (two in fact) and only one small press edited by a woman, being invited into this close-knit circle put her "under" the critical eye of those who brought poetry into print - and in this particular fact lies her difference. Because she has a large body of work published (over 20 titles) since 1965, we might see her as a prolific and substantial poet of her generation. And because her way of being was broad and sweeping, extending across several continents, into geographies and local histories, and through friendships with many poets and their differently inflected aesthetics, there is no one way to talk about her work except as that of a singular individual.
Prolific 20th-century polymath Harry Smith picked up every paper airplane he saw on the streets of Manhattan from 1961 to 1983.
A centenary poem as Gaeilge (translated into English underneath)
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RIR has selected five varied, striking poets who reflect female poetry in Russia today
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https://vimeo.com/74855141 A Swoon (Marc Neys) film for a text by U.S. poet Michael Annis, translated into Spanish with the help of Gabriela Perez and recited by Sitara Monica Perez, with music by ...
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