This post has been edited to include video of the reading of the seminal Charles Olson essay Projective Verse: It was...
A Reading of Projective Verse
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1.1.2021 American Sentence
1.1.2021 - 2020 was taken out to the alley & shot in the head. 12.31.2020 marked the completion of twenty years of...
The New Year (A Poem)
Photo from CrosscutThe New Year January 1 too old to be hungover you unwrap the new year like a new stick of butter...
Letter for Diane di Prima Park
30-December-2020 LaMonte Bishop City of San Francisco Parks & Recreation lamonte.bishop@sfgov.org To the Honorable...
Diane di Prima Solstice Poem
Thank you Leggy Bruck for this: And di Prima fans should know about this: Rename Page-Laguna Mini Park to Diane...
My Personal Universe Deck
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FLEXIBLE MIND December 3, 2020
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Notes on Being Human Is an Occult Practice
I was excited to see a chapbook with such a provocative title. Magdalena Zurawski is the author and is currently...
Sharon Doubiago on Diane di Prima
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Testimonials
Such sweet testimonials are coming in from participants in the recent Poetics as Cosmology course I facilitated,...