“POETRY AS FORCES” AFTER Cecilia Vicuña

By Andrea Abi-Karam

APR 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

Mark Leckey: O’ Magic Power of Bleakness

By Toby Kamps

NOV 2019 | ArtSeen

In his engulfing, otherworldly video installation at Tate Britain, O’ Magic Power of Bleakness, Mark Leckey has transformed a cavernous gallery into a freeway underpass—specifically his childhood hangout under the M53 Motorway, which runs through his deindustrialized hometown on the Wirral Peninsula across the River Mersey from Liverpool.

JUDITH BAUMEL with Catherine Parnell

FEB 2020 | Books

A poet, essayist, teacher, and traveler, Baumel is a modern-day seeker, wresting meaning out of the past and holding it up to the present. Baumel is on a journey, and her poems mark time and space. What follows is a conversation about the place and meaning of poetry today, including poetic meet-ups with Virgil, Ovid and Theocritus, and a stroll through Italy and the Bronx. Passeggiate. Walk with us.

Queer Weather

River Rail Colby | River Rail

Poetry by Arisa White