We’ve been calling Melissa Broder a genius since 2010. She’s got a new book of poetry coming out soon.
The John K. Sampson for Canadian Poet Laureate campaign begins here, with Larry Livermore leading the movement. (via Canada’s Poet Laureate)
Not to say that DeFord romanticizes the beauty of her, or any community, because as she says, “If someone says they’ve never thought about leaving/ they’re lying.” She marks the ambivalence of a city, infringing on nature, on the quiet of our minds, at the same time that pays tribute and homage to the sprawl. (via “A Welcome Antidote Against the Gloomy Sense of Isolation”: Susie DeFord’s “Dogs of Brooklyn” Reviewed | Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
Can we make this happen in 2012? Or maybe an Obama/Myles ticket? (We took this picture from Brandon Stosuy’s Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992.)
We approve of this Ostwald Helgason Baudelaire Sweatshirt.
In Some Sense, But in Another, Not at All: Talking about Music with Paul Muldoon at Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
