RE:CONVERSATION :: CHELATE :: QUEERING THE TRANS POETIC with JAY BESEMER
[line] [articlequote]Written during the advent of hormone therapy and gender transition, Chelate by OS Contributing Editor Jay Besemer (out July 1 from Brooklyn Arts Press) explores the journey towards a new embodiment, one that is immediately complicated by the difficult news of a
5th(!) Annual National Poetry Month 30/30/30 :: Nevertheless I Live :: Jay Besemer on Tristan Tzara
[box]It's hard to believe that today's post marks the first of our FIFTH annual 30/30/30 series, and that when this month is over we will have seeded and scattered ONE HUNDRED and FIFTY of these love-letters, these stories of gratitude
4th Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 19 :: Chia-Lun Chang on Qiong Hong, Modernism and Sexism
Students, like myself, are required to read well-known modern poetry in Taiwan. World War II and the period that followed introduced a new age of poetry in the country. Poetry had a[textwrap_image align="right"]http://www.theoperatingsystem.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Screen-Shot-2015-04-19-at-11.12.59-AM.png[/textwrap_image] strict rule and was about patriotism, religion
4th Annual Poetry Month 30/30/30 :: Day 3 :: Mariana Ruiz Firmat on Dawn Lundy Martin
[line] Several years ago, I was coming off of a particularly painful year that commenced with the severing of a seven-year relationship and ended with the passing of my grandmother. From the moment my grandmother stepped foot in this country, she
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 18 :: CHARAN P. MORRIS on NATALIE DIAZ
Before I met Natalie Diaz, I was already in love with her writing. The day of my first workshop session with her, I scurried in nervously, eager to soak up insight into how she chisels poems from the bruised and
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: Day 6 :: DIA FELIX on PHILIP LAMANTIA
[Editor's note: It is total synchrony that sees this post going live the weekend Dia's is in NY, kicking off a multi-city tour with City Lights / Sister Spit to promote her new book on that imprint, Nochita. Missed her at the
ART :: REFLECTIONS : COLLAGE AND (DE)CONSTRUCTION :: Caits Meissner in Workshop at the Brooklyn Museum
Caits Meissner, always inspiring poet-artist-educator-activist-friend, recently led a collage workshop at the Brooklyn Museum in coordination with the Mickalene Thomas exhibition, Origin of the Universe, [on view through January 20th, 2013]. Here she reflects on her experience as teaching artist in
Internet Treasure Hunting: FLAME – Waldman/Bye
Waldman/Bye word/sound/video collaboration, FLAME, based on Aristophenes' Speech on Love, from Plato's Symposium
