Not an Elegy
“Through lamentation and joy, Smith’s poems lean their head back and sing, Not yet.”
Image: “Dreams In Black and White”, 2013, courtesy of the artist, Shikeith
All posts tagged: Seattle Arts & Lectures
Nothing Keeps Me Company! An Interview with Alice Notley
by Sierra Nelson | Contributing Writer
KARY WAYSON I’d Vowed
a real bird perched on a branch of a glass tree
How to Listen to Water
Michelle Peñaloza on Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Oceanic
That Ocean Inside Us
Claudia Castro Luna on Violence and Silence in the Poems of Gregory Orr
Close Entanglements
Bill Carty on the poetry of A.E. Stallings
Like Sand, and Solid Ground
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on Steph Burt’s Advice from the Lights
Afterword // The Being Beyond Terror: Alice Notley for Seattle Arts & Lectures
by Jay Aquinas Thompson | Associate Editor
Carl Phillips: Darkening, Brightening
a game, something someone / played, once.
Sierra Nelson: “The Great Punctuation: Alice Notley & Mother-Bright-Appearance”
“I believe poetry is language’s most radical possibilities, possibilities which include prose and what prose is capable of expressing, but with the freeing capability of moving beyond limiting grammatical structures and linguistic norms as needed.”