Erica Kaufman

Erica Kaufman is the author of censory impulse (Factory School, 2009) as well as several chapbooks, including selections from INSTANT CLASSIC forthcoming from Least Weasel. kaufman is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center where she studies Composition and Rhetoric and its relationship to contemporary poetics. she lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Baruch College and is an associate of Bard’s Institute for Writing & Thinking.

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Allowing oneself to 'be the city'

Poetry in 1960, A Symposium: Question & Answer Session

On Barbara Guest, 'The Location of Things'

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"The binary is only a metaphor"—SS Prasad

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The snail's shell is a spiral, a repeating pattern in the natural world

I began this commentary by writing about poetry and quantum supercomputers as well as the failing of Western science from before Democritus to the present day in perpetuating the belief in elementary particles, from the atom as the central concept of materialism in Greek philosophy to the open and closed strings in contemporary string theory. (More on this later.)

March 12, 2014

Geomantic Riposte: The New Long Poem Anthology

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The second edition of The New Long Poem Anthology (edited by acclaimed poet Sharon Thesen), a collection of longer works; sequential poems; extended poems; and serial, lengthy or longish poems, is an important resource and geomantic touchstone for aspiring writers and fans of #CanLit alike, and includes work by Anne Carson, Christopher Dewdney, Lisa Robertson, Jeff Derksen, Don McKay, Erin Mouré, Patrick Friesen, Steve McCaffery, George Bowering, Dionne Brand, Louis Dudek, Diana Hartog, Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, David McFadden, Barry McKinnon, bpNichol, Michael Ondaatje, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Fred Wah, Phyllis Webb, Robin Blaser, and Yolande Villemaire.

March 12, 2014

Jennifer Moxley, PoemTalk #55

For PoemTalk episode 55 (released in July 2012), Cathy Eisenhower joined us from DC, and Christopher Schmidt from New York, and Katie Price from just down t

March 11, 2014