Craig Santos Perez

Between kindness and precarity

Orchid Tierney

Orchid Tierney reviews three titles that engage with Anthropocene landscapes: Edgeland and other poems by David Eggleton; Habitat Threshold by Craig Santos Perez; and Mezzaluna: Selected Poems by Michele Leggott.

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Near/Miss

Charles Bernstein

New from University of Chicago Press: paper, cloth, e-book
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Toward a poetry and poetics of the Americas (27)

'Independence Event' (Haiti) with addendum by Javier Taboada

Jerome Rothenberg

painting by Ernst Prophète (Haitian/Cap-Haitien, b. 1950) — Painting by Ernst Prophète (Haitian/Cap-Haitien, b. 1950).

Dutty Boukman [aka Zamba Boukman] (Haiti, d. 1791)

INDEPENDENCE EVENT & RITUAL

1. Grab a pig

2. Congregate the people & start a fire