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Four Questions: Women & Power

A slant response to the latest Vida results, but I think worth thinking about.





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Four questions regarding women and power













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Does the lack of women broadly accepted as intellectual/critical forces influence women's creative relationships? #women&power#

The line break is dead

Or is it? What makes a contemporary poet engage with the line break? In preparing for another stint blogging at Harriet I've been glancing over old posts (Strangely enough I want to redo many of them for I haven't quite said the thing, but never mind...) and I found this conversation with Ken Babstock that I quite forgot I had. It's a bit defensive, not propulsive, which may be a reflection of my

What is curation?

What is Curation? from Percolate on Vimeo.

Amazing. Thanks to Brain Pickings for the find. We are al...

Amazing. Thanks to Brain Pickings for the find. We are all Fukushima. 

Amazing. Thanks to Brain Pickings for the find.

Amazing. Thanks to Brain Pickings for the find.

1 Second a Day

1 Second Everyday - Age 30 from Cesar Kuriyama on Vimeo.

Fabulous. I love this video.When I teach introduction to poetry I assign my students the task of writing one couplet a day. It sounds easy. It isn't. They want to write poems. They want to write a complete thing. A couplet, I argue, is a complete thing. A couplet, closed, open, epic, rhyming...is a unit of poetry in itself. And as a

Zizek: Catastrophic But Not Serious

Can't put the entire talk here. You need to click on "watch full program" below.
Slavoj Zizek: Catastrophic But Not Serious from The Graduate Center, CUNY on FORA.tv

Slavoj Žižek on Climate Change Denial

Geometry of Circles

Marie Osmond on Hugo Ball

 Not kidding. Here it is again, just the poem.

Here's a link to Hugo Ball on Ubu.
And here's Christian Bok.