Timothy Donnelly is the author of The Problem of the Many (Wave Books, 2019), The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books, 2010), which won the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove, 2003). His chapbook Hymn to Life was recently published by Factory Hollow […]
You have yet to hear a voice like Essy Stone’s. It’s a voice that suffers no fools, is serrated, discerning, contrary, and consummate ... a gutting, questioning, exploratory voice with the hiss of backwater ballads, several cups of the blues, an almanac of prayers and hexes, a hint of duende, […]
Essy Stone recently completed a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University. She received an MFA from the University of Miami, but spent most of her life as a waitress in East Tennessee. Her poetry has been published in Prairie Schooner, 32 Poems, and is forthcoming in The […]
In June, I received the sad news that the wonderful Argentinian poet Mirta Rosenberg was very ill. I had just been at the Banff Literary Translation Centre in Canada with Ezequiel Zaidenwerg, her former student and co-author with her of the book Bichos. He sent a message that he […]
Process Note This multimedia piece from my dissertation entitled “Home Movie, Nowhere” is rooted in the documentary poetics of place and includes a triptych of three video poems. These videos personally document the American Midwest through the aesthetic lens of the Midwestern Gothic, attempting to reimagine or re-vision the idea […]
Process Note These videos grew out of a split chapbook I made with Anna Kreienberg. While there were only 25 copies made, which were then distributed at a reading in March of 2015, these videos have been screened at a number of venues. ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ Born […]
Prageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019), Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013), Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007), The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004), which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: […]
Author’s Notes My husband and I were traveling a lot to all these gorgeous locations and I would say, “I wish I could shoot a cinépoem here.” And he’d say, “Why not? Let’s do it.” So you’ll see a few of my cinépoems in international locales (Venice, Dublin, Prague, Paris) […]
_________________________________________________ See more Kate Greenstreet videopoems at vimeo.com/kickingwind.
Only one way. The house. The body. What hisses, what gnaws—how to see what I’m meant to see. When is time inconsolable (and the world, there is no hurry)? The river made of eyes, the lake made of bone. The thick underneath, the waterline, mud that breathes, […]
