Susannah B. Mintz

Susannah B. Mintz is Professor of English at Skidmore College.

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Not detainable (PoemTalk #130)

Gwendolyn Brooks, 'Riot'

From left: Amber Rose Johnson, Tonya Foster, Davy Knittle

Amber Rose Johnson, Davy Knittle, and Tonya Foster joined Al Filreis to discuss the poem “Riot” by Gwendolyn Brooks. “Riot” is the title poem in the (now rare) chapbook published by Dudley Randall’s Detroit-based Broadside Press in 1969, and has been collected variously, including in the book Blacks (1994). The Eclipse site offers a PDF copy of the original Riot chapbook. The recording used as the basis of this PoemTalk conversation comes from a reading Brooks gave at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City on May 3, 1983.

November 16, 2018

A conversation between poet-grammarians

Excerpts

Serena Chopra

Aditi Machado

We speak, in this cointerview, of our books — Serena Chopra’s Ic (Horse Less Press, 2017) and Aditi Machado’s Some Beheadings (Nightboat Books, 2017) — of epiphany and performance, the sociopolitical import of the line break, of decapitation, autoeroticism, and the sensorium. In so speaking, we discover that we are both, and proudly, grammarians.

I mean the sign
Is fucking full of it[1]

When two matters interact should I hope to keep my skin.[2]

November 16, 2018

Jack Foley: Michael McClure's 'Persian Pony'

A review and tribute

Jerome Rothenberg

Published by Ekstasis Editions, 2017