On the bus to work this morning, I read Bradley Harrison‘s Diorama of a People, Burning. A chapbook of erasure poems, Diorama is brief enough to be read in one sitting, yet complex enough to leave the reader with many … Continue reading
The Dead Women of Juárez by Robert Andrew Powell My rating: 2 of 5 stars Once I had the patience to figure out how to strip the DRM from a Kindle Single so that I can read long-form journalism on … Continue reading
Standing Start, a 12-minute documentary short-film on track bicycle racing, uses narration adapted from Homer’s The Odyssey to frame the significance of training, pursuit, and competition. Like Douglas Gordon’s Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait, this riveting film from the Scottish … Continue reading
Poets are social critics by default. That is, since not very many of us take the same care to craft our daily language that poets do, poets often are (or see themselves as) outsiders. And as outsiders, many poets are … Continue reading
Not me. I’ve got a truck. A two-wheeled pick-up truck. I sold my car this spring after realizing that I’d put gas in the tank a handful of times within the previous year. Then a friend reminded me of the … Continue reading