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Tag Archives: poetry and culture
Your Invitation to the Wake: For Alexandra Petri, After Her Article, ‘Is Poetry Dead?’
By Tatyana Brown The Tuesday afternoon after Obama was inaugurated for his second term (the same day The Washington Post published your thoughts on Richard Blanco and the state of certain fields of contemporary literature), I taught a poetry workshop … Continue reading
“Crying, my little one, footsore and weary.”
By Jean Macpherson You know what Mommy? I want to keep my toys forever. Bedtime words, but he is still awake talking to his babies — ladybug, black bear, elephant. Collectively he calls them babies, but in the singular or … Continue reading
Posted in Guest contributors
Tagged Christina Rossetti, Jean Macpherson, poetry and culture
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They Got the Guns, But we Got the Numbers: Why Radius Will Continue to Submit to the Pushcart Prize
By Victor D. Infante There is a manner in which you chew too long on irrelevant questions, the way you feel obliged to answer them, but find instead a stuttering nothing lodged in your throat, a stammer as you begin … Continue reading
Posted in Editors
Tagged Counterpoint, How We Read, poetry and culture, Victor D. Infante
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La Revolución Will Not Be Reviewed In The New York Times
By Rich Villar Disclaimers: I’m a poet. I talk a lot about poems. I realize that the argument is about literature in general. You will also notice a lot of politics in this essay. These are not apologies, just recognitions. … Continue reading
Posted in Guest contributors
Tagged Clemente Soto Velez, Counterpoint, Federico Garcia Lorca, Hart Crane, Jorge Luis Borges, Jose Martí, Julia de Burgos, Langston Hughes, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Luis Pales Matos, Nicolás Guillen, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, poetry and culture, poetry and identity, Rich Villar, Sterling Brown, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams
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The Male Slam Experience vs The Female Slam Experience
By Rachel McKibbens It has taken me two years to get around to writing this, but after coming home from the Women of the World poetry slam on Sunday, and being asked repeatedly what I meant by something I said … Continue reading
Why Queer is the New Straight White Male
by Jade Sylvan When I originally conceived of this post, I was going to call it “What’s Good About Straight White Men.” I was planning to write about how, as frustratingly homogenous as the “Western Canon” of literature is, the … Continue reading
Preoccupied: Radius, Volume Two
By Victor D. Infante I’ve been struggling with Occupy poems, lately. Oh, I’m sure there are excellent ones out there, but I’ve been finding most of the ones we get here … thin. Too much head, not enough … I … Continue reading
Facebook and the Development of the Personal Protagonist
By Jade Sylvan I have tons of Facebook friends I’ve never met in real life. These friends engage with my Facebook personality, which, as I’ve written it, is a pretty cryptic, absurd voice. They like its statuses. They comment on … Continue reading
Posted in Regular contributors
Tagged facebook, How We Read, Jade Sylvan, poetry and culture, poetry and pop culture
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The “Wandering Poet” Myth RE: DIY Touring: A Conversation w/ Brian S. Ellis
By Jade Sylvan Jade Sylvan: So I’ve been thinking a lot of the modern sort of Punk Rock DIY touring that happens now, you know, like, people in a car driving to a place, and sometimes you have a big … Continue reading
The First Patriarch of Rock & Roll: Bob Dylan and the Prophet Archetype
By Jade Sylvan (excerpted from the forthcoming book, More Popular Than Jesus: The Beatles and the Mythology of Rock by Jade Sylvan and Steve Wagner) “I felt right at home in this mythical realm made up not with individuals so … Continue reading
Posted in Regular contributors
Tagged Bob Dylan, Jade Sylvan, poetry and culture, Poetry and Popular Culture
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