feygele is yiddish for the way i walk into a room. —sam sax2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow https://t.co/zOcS2glcxq — POETRY magazine (@poetrymagazine) September 3, 2018 and! Kim Fahner has written about The Machete Tourist by @stintzi, a beautiful chapbook published by @knifeforkbook : https://t.co/KTf7T5AbSF — Aaron Boothby (@ellipticalnight) September 3, 2018
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The reading of a poem, a poetry reading, is not a spectacle, nor can it be passively received. It’s an exchange of electrical currents through language – Adrienne Rich — sam sax (@samsax1) January 26, 2018 Fridays. knife | fork | book (See you tonight.)
So, what rocked my world? The remarkable power of ‘naming.’ MOEZ SURANI‘s book-length poem ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация (BookThug, 2016), lists the code names for UN miltary interventions from 1945 to present that could easily be mistaken for the titles of children’s picture books. At once absurdly funny and utterly grotesque, the […]
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