B'Earthday 2008
"Nature is loved by what is best in us."--from Emerson's "Nature" essay
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"Nature is loved by what is best in us."--from Emerson's "Nature" essay
First, there are new poems by Amy Hegarty, HERE. A bit reminiscent of William Blake, perhaps?
Teaser: "Beautiful baby / With your head cut off / Why didn’t they bury you then?"
Also, Guernica is sponsoring two PEN World Voices events, both of which are going to be worth your time.
Tuesday, April 29th
Crisis Darfur: A Conversation with Mia Farrow and Bernard-Henri Lévy
8 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française ($15/$10 students)
Friday, May 2nd
Leaving Home: With Dinaw Mengestu, György Dragomán, and Saša Stanišić. Moderated by
Irina Reyn.
5:30 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum (FREE, but reservations required)
Click HERE for more information.
The Shape of Disclosure: George Oppen Centennial Symposium
Tuesday, April 8th, 3:00-9:00pm
Sponsored by Poets House
More information
I am very excited to be a part of From the Fishouse, an audio archive of emerging poets. I have long admired this project created by Matt O'Donnell. On my page, which you can reach HERE, I read five poems and answer a couple of questions.
My mom, photographer Paula Wright, took the photo.
Thanks for listening!
One recent afternoon when I was sick and desperate for something new to read, I flipped through those books that somehow manage to appear on my bookcase without any recollection of how they arrived: a 600-page biography of Vivienne Eliot, George Bernard Shaw's music essays, a Russian Literature Triquarterly from 1971. I don't think I bought any of these, and since I am not prone to shoplifting, I can only assume they were gifts and can only hope I thanked the gifter. I settled on George Oppen's 1969 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection On Being Numerous, a volume I figure was given to me by a professor a few years back and promptly forgotten.
Blog entry continued HERE, at Guernica...
Now published at Guernica, HERE.
And in posting them, I learned (courtesy of my genius brother) how to put words in small caps, as in, see Monica Youn's wonderful new poems, HERE. (THOUGH TO BE HONEST, I CHEATED, AND IF THE HTML IS UGLY, IT'S MY FAULT.)
Teaser from Youn's "Ignatz Oasis":
When you have left me
the sky drains of color
like the skin of a tightening fist.
