Poetry
The Impossible Sentence
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Edwin TorresTorres has collaborated with artists creating interdisciplinary performances.
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Stanzas from an untitled poem
By Daniel TiffanyJUL-AUG 2018 | Poetry
Daniel Tiffany is the author of ten books of poetry and literary criticism. The stanzas published here are drawn from a book-length poem composed in syllabics, which writes through The Book of Margery Kempe (the first autobiography in the English language), dictated by an illiterate fourteenth-century mystic. Additional stanzas from the poem will be appearing in BOMB, Iowa Review, FENCE, Colorado Review, The Tiny, Journal of Poetics Research (Australia), Flash Cove (Australia), Iowa Review, VOLT, Horsethief, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, West Branch, and Bennington Review.
Listening In: Version and Inversion
By Scott GuttermanJUL-AUG 2020 | Music
In this column last month, for a piece called “Vision and Revision,” I concluded with a poem by Rumi (“The Guest House”) about the inevitability of change, and the need to accept it. The story struck a fairly optimistic note. But if I am honest, my predominant feeling lately has been one of dread. To open the newspaper is to unleash a cascade of barely imaginable stories. Yet how can we be surprised when we knew? The answer: We don’t want to know.
POEM (“popular fear…”)
By Simon PettetSEPT 2019 | Poetry
Simon Pettet is a long-time resident of New York's Lower East Side. His Collected Poems, HEARTH (from Talisman House) is essential reading. His most recent volume (from the same publishers) is AS A BEE
Sara Magenheimer’s Beige Pursuit
By Maxwell PaparellaJUL-AUG 2020 | Art Books
The artist’s first book-length text reads alternately like a screenplay and a long poem, its sparsely populated pages asking to be consumed slowly.
