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The Lady Poets & All Their Lady Parts

Thanks to Don Share these are, respectively,  Edna St. Vincent Millay, Aline Kilmer, Sara Teasdale, Zoe Akins, Lola Ridge, Amy Lowell...for more see Poetry's Tumblr.

I get it. Getting called Critic Bitch, referred to as a smelly Margaret Wente, minimized, undermined (that's the most popular form): Ladies, when the assholes start calling you names and tweaking out on you on Twitter you know

Lyric Conceptualism: A Manifesto In Progresss

BY SINA QUEYRAS

The Lyric Conceptualist has moved beyond the indigestible and the unreadable, in fact, beyond all gestures that have made pleasure the enemy of reading.

Still, the Lyric Conceptualist remains true to her politics of inclusion, appreciating the thinkership of conceptual poetry, the revelations in mass assemblages that concretize the ephemeral textuality of daily life.  Yet she

Quebec Students Reminding Canada of the Possibility of Canada

The Charest government should have learned from Gilles Duceppe. I live in his riding. I saw him several times during his last election, slipping in and out of his car, looking very smug indeed. Not a bad man, Duceppe, but a man who had become completely out of touch with his riding, with the moment...

Charest I can't even say I feel warmly towards, but that's not the point. The point is he

Under Rich Earth

Thinking of this in relation to all the Occupy movements...and in particular the northern pipeline opponents. Wish this was screened in every town along the Skeena.

Poetry is your bitch

From: Nothing Simple This Way Comes

One might ask
what is it about a feminist poetic whose grass roots interventions remain in
the fringes of the poetry scene, yet cause such ire? A series that privileges
women who take great risk in their writing, which has little support from
mainstream funding or publishing bodies, that makes formal female poets enraged
that they are not included? “Are these avant-garde types the status quo?”

Fraser Nixon: The Man Who Killed

Not a great quality video, but content is good, and The Man Who Killed is a great read. The best thing I can say about this book is I have recommended it to several people, including one person whom I urged to buy the screen rights. My most succinct review: I read the whole thing and it didn't irritate me. I read the whole thing and remained interested, aside from one minor hesitation that

DONNA SUMMER - I feel love (1977) HD and HQ

Ah, the late 70s...not a better time, or more simple, but I did have time to wear down a few LPs. Donna Summer's double album was one.

How about a little applause?

For the bloggers out there in Canada who keep posting, often to a very limited audience...who are sometimes the only ones to pay attention to a book that falls through the formidable mainstream cracks. These are blogs that focus on content. Not comment. They are about the books, fancy that, not the posturing in the comment stream, not careerist tools for positioning the author as authority.

Critic, know thyself

What is lacking in Lista’s polemic is what would make it criticism, namely an autocritical moment. An illuminating literary criticism would—should, to my mind—always relativize itself, openly acknowledging the aesthetic grounds from which it makes its judgements and, as importantly, articulating the aesthetic grounds that orient the practice that it would evaluate. 
I am happy to see this. I