selected unpublished blog posts… by Megan Boyle
———————————————————————- some moments are not meaningful at all ‘meaningful’ is not the right word and neither is ‘introspective,’ it’s a word that exists between those words i think some moments exist to be simple sentences that don’t necessarily have a greater purpose than to be exactly what they are i think most animals experience life in simple sentences and most people do not. or maybe they do. it depends. i don’t know. i am done thinking about this from 4.03.09 of selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda...
read moreAn Open Letter by Michael Anania
This is a very good letter about the state and history of the poetry publishing world and how academia may or may not (depending on your viewpoint) influence it. With little magazines, small presses and independent publishers have been at the center of American poetic development since the 1920s. William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and HD spent their entire careers in small presses. New Directions, it should be remembered, was a small press when it first published Williams, Pound, and HD. In time it grew larger and more consequential around them. Three of the most influential...
read moreReview: Person by Sam Pink
I want don’t want to write a conventional review of this book. I just want to tell everyone how great I think this book is. It is a book that I could have read in one sitting but after reading the first 2 chapters, I deliberately made myself only read 1-2 chapters a day so that it would last longer. The main character is very funny but also sad. The roommate character is also very funny. The whole book is very funny. The dialogue is great (meaning the actual words in the actual order used in the conversations in the book). The structure of the dialogue is unique and inventive. The...
read moreInterview with Luna Miguel
In the meantime, Steven Fowler, via another Spanish poet, interviewed me for 3:AM Magazine. When I asked for Kendra’s book from Scrambler Books it turned out that Jeremy Spencer had read my interview in English so we started writing emails to each other, talking about literature. We sent each other letters, too, and we exchanged books. One day he asked to publish me and we made an anthology of poems from all my books that will be published in 2012. It is one of the best things that’s happened to me in my life and it’s all thanks to two or three nights of searching on the...
read moreReview: Best Behavior by Noah Cicero
In the introduction to Best Behavior, Cicero claims to be writing this book as “A book that would define a generation.” (1) I think he may have succeeded with some of the book, but not with all of the book. Cicero succeeded with the parts that seemed to incorporate the narrator Benny Baradat into the story. Those parts let Baradat interact with the other characters letting the story flow smoothly and leading to an interesting dynamic between certain characters. Cicero did not succeed when Baradat was sort of ruminating or even just outright preaching his long sermons about various...
read moreRômulo Fróes
Rômulo Fróes is a Brazilian musician based out of the city of Sao Paulo. He molds and blends traditional Brazilian samba and MPB beats with his own original sound and lyrics. If you are unfamiliar with Brazilian music but like American indie music that is popular today, you will probably like his songs as well. Lyrically, he is very playful using themes and ideas taken from other songs, art, Brazilian popular culture, literature and many more influences. Most of the time the lyrics seem to contradict themselves but when the listener takes the time to think about them, they appear to be very...
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