Galleries


Louis Armand	Artwork by Louis Armand and Ken Bolton	Nov 16, 2012
Louis Armand	Artwork by Louis Armand and Paul Sloan	Nov 29, 2011
Martín Bakero	Martín Bakero “Abjects” and other poems	Apr 28, 2014
Erica Baum	Photographs from 'Dog Ear'	Mar 09, 2011
Ken Bolton	Artwork by Ken Bolton and Robert Pulie	Apr 12, 2012
Anamaría Briede	Anamaría Briede from “Líneas Contenidas”	Apr 28, 2014
Gaye Chan	Pacific rim and basin art Curated by Gaye Chan	Apr 04, 2011
Linh Dinh	State of the union: Photographs by Linh Dinh	Sep 28, 2011
Brandon Downing	Recent collages	Dec 05, 2011
Chris Edwards	Artwork by Chris Edwards and Angela Gardner	Jul 24, 2012
Kurt Folch	Kurt Folch A sampler	Apr 28, 2014
Gregorio Fontén	Gregorio Fontén from “circle of tones” and “street poem AZ”	Apr 28, 2014
Martín Gubbins	Martín Gubbins from 'Símbolos,' 'Hormigas,' 'nbsp,' and 'White Pages'	Apr 28, 2014
Tero Hannula	Tero Hannula	Feb 15, 2016
Satu Kaikkonen	Satu Kaikkonen	Feb 15, 2016
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen	Jukka-Pekka Kervinen	Feb 15, 2016
Mikko Kuorinki	Mikko Kuorinki	Feb 15, 2016
Tiina Lehikoinen	Tiina Lehikoinen	Feb 15, 2016
Sami Liuhto	Sami Liuhto	Feb 15, 2016
Norman MacAfee	Sixteen drawings for Helen Adam's 'San Francisco's Burning'	Sep 30, 2013
Steve Prygoda	Gallery: John Wieners in 'Tenzone'	Dec 24, 2012
Jennifer Scappettone	Pop-up pastorals from 'The Republic of Exit 43'	Dec 14, 2016
James Schuyler	'Mark Trail' collage poem	Jun 30, 2012
Pete Spence	Artwork by Pete Spence	Jan 24, 2012
Reijo Valta	Reijo Valta	Feb 15, 2016
Hannah Weiner	'The Book of Revelations': The diplomatic transcript (gallery view)	Apr 07, 2011

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Disambiguating rape culture

Lynn Melnick’s nouns

BK Fischer

Photo of Lynn Melnick (left) by Timothy Donnelly.

Gertrude Stein never trusted nouns. She was wary of their tendency to fossilize meaning, even as she relished their potential to be magnetized: “Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun.”[1] Lynn Melnick’s Landscape with Sex and Violence, eighty years later, takes up this ambivalent and vexed embrace of nouns in the space of rape culture, where adoring and wanting cross use and abuse as matters graver than grammatical concern.

From 'Eclipse' by Joe Safdie, with a note on its poetics by the author

Jerome Rothenberg

A sunrise, the sun’s course, a sunset are marvelous to no one because they occur daily. But solar eclipses are a source of wonder because they occur seldom, and indeed are more marvelous than lunar eclipses, because these are more frequent. Thus nature shows that she is not aroused by the common ordinary event, but is moved by a new and striking occurrence. Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. — Frances Yates, The Art of Memory

Do you have an extra cigarette?

Sommer Browning

image of a long road that fades into the distance taken from inside a car — long road

Have you ever heard Aram Saroyan read his poem “Biography”?[1] It is a poem in which he recites every year from his birth to the current year in his usual steady, calm cadence. I’m a bit fascinated with this poem; I seem to bring it up often. It really can’t be beat. It’s a pure poem. I heard him read it in 2007 (I think) at Poet’s House in New York. There are a hundred things to say about the poem, how the simplicity of it belies the fact that it describes something huge, i.e.