Monthly Archives: October 2013

The Writing Mother: Poetry in the Thunderdome

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October 29, 2013 by author

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Victor D. Infante

By Lauren Gordon

While reading about and celebrating Alice Munro’s recent Nobel Prize in Literature this year, I came across this quote in The Atlantic from 2001: “As a young author taking care of three small children, Munro learned to … Continue reading→

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Invented Forms: The Skance

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October 22, 2013 by author

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Victor D. Infante

By Robert Wynne

The Skance is an ekphrastic persona poem, written in the voice of some element from the piece of art (subject, color, frame, etc.) or left out of it (alternate subject, missing color, etc.). There are no specific … Continue reading→

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Poem by Fiona Helmsley

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October 16, 2013 by author

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Victor D. Infante

Elegy
By Fiona Helmsley

My hot mess mentoress.
My sweet muse of self- abuse.
Who showed me how to wear
A dime- store diadem in my hair
And all my scars as accessories.

Orphan born … Continue reading→

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Eating Black Mucus: Notes on language, history, creativity

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October 13, 2013 by author

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Victor D. Infante

By Robert Bohm

1. Dante and Genet Fuck All Night in a Bed of Transcendent Ideas: Prologue to a Few Words on Artaud

In order to understand language, one must be wary of it, as if it were … Continue reading→

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Two poems by Simon Perchik

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October 10, 2013 by author

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Victor D. Infante

Two Untitled Poems
By Simon Perchik

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You water this box
the way flowers take up the slack
are circling down to reach the corners

who have lost everything, torn
from the rot all wood scrapes … Continue reading→

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