Rodney Koeneke's Blog, page 31
February 23, 2009
News from the Oracle at Delphi
Container is also a structure.
February 20, 2009
Silver Lining …
... to the cloud that is having to miss the book launch for Alicia Cohen’s new Debts and Obligations and Jules Boykoff’s Heretical Text, Hegemonic Love Potion, at Powell’s on Hawthorne this Sunday;
Rules for Drinking Forties arrived from the Cy Press dream team last night, so will see its world premiere in Eugene on Saturday. That’s why I got into this business, folks—so I could say “world premiere in Eugene on Saturday” some day.
Which reminds me to shout out to my next-door neighbor, who grew up
Rules for Drinking Forties arrived from the Cy Press dream team last night, so will see its world premiere in Eugene on Saturday. That’s why I got into this business, folks—so I could say “world premiere in Eugene on Saturday” some day.
Which reminds me to shout out to my next-door neighbor, who grew up
February 18, 2009
Hello, Eugene
I’ll be reading with Kasey Mohammad this Saturday in Eugene, Ore. for Tim (“Wig”) Shaner’s new A-New Poetry series. “Poetry” and “Eugene” went together like sardines and orange juice for me—never really seen it, hadn’t thought to try it—until Tim started bringing poets like Bob Grenier, Kaia Sand, Laynie Brown, Maryrose Larkin, David Abel, and Jules Boykoff to read at the DIVA center late last year. I think Kasey’s coming with a minyan of the Ashlanders busy turning Southern Oregon into a kind o
February 16, 2009
Reading Local Interview
On the interview tick, here’s one I did last month on poetry, Portland, and poetry in Portland for Gabe Barber’s Reading Local website. (If you decide to click through, please hit “Play” right away to quickly animate the bizarrely contorted face.)
February 14, 2009
February 13, 2009
LA-Lit
A while back I was crying into Stan Apps’s blog about LA-Lit not updating its mp3 archives of interviews with poets I like. Turns out they had, but I’d missed them, they’re here (and on PennSound.) Hosts Stephanie Rioux & Mathew Timmons provide an easygoing, free-form format for (often younger) poets to read, yawp & stretch. San Francisco gets all the literary love, but take it from Dodie Bellamy: “L.A.” and “lit” are doing just fine.
February 11, 2009
February 9, 2009
Susana Gardner & the Dead
RK: I may be totally off-base, but is there a particular “thesis” about the presence of the dead in our lives that [lapsed insel weary:] explores? The loss of a loved one seems to drive a lot of the work, but I didn’t know exactly what to make of it. At times—and I feel I’m on shaky ground here—I wondered if the brackets relate to the sentence the way the poems want to suggest the dead relate to the living: as insistent intrusions, but also permanent connections stronger than the bonds of ordinar
