Poetry
Poetry by Carmen Gimenez Smith
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Carmen Gimenez SmithCarmen Gimenez Smith teaches creative writing at New Mexico State University and is publisher of Noemi Press. Her work is forthcoming in Ocho and Mandorla.
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“POETRY AS FORCES” AFTER Cecilia Vicuña
By Andrea Abi-KaramAPR 2019 | Critics Page
The "about to happen" / "poetry as forces" when Cecilia Vicuña says that the lies (the words, the language) of the Chilean dictatorship murdered & tortured thousands of people I remember the power of the word & i remember the power of poetry—"made of forces"—that holds something in the action of language
Andrei Monastyrski’s Elementary Poetry
By Nolan KellySEPT 2020 | Art Books
This anthology assembles the poetic compositions of the poet and performer scarcely known in this country, but influential in Russia since the days of the Soviet Union. Monastyrski’s poems call for action, and by their very nature draw attention to the activity of reading.
Why Poetry Now
By Ann LauterbachAPR 2018 | Editor's Message
A friend recently handed me a bumper sticker that reads WHO NEEDS POETRY. A question in the form of a statement.
RIZOMA: Poetry & Performance Workshops at Santiaguito de Almoloya Women’s Prison
By Emma GomisSEPT 2020 | Special Report
In March of 2020 I went with a group of artists, poets, and musicians to the Penal Femenil Santiaguito in Almoloya, Mexico—a prison center for prevention and social reinsertion.
