Archive for April, 2019

From popular dystopian narratives to steampunk, zombie and horror tales to Afrosurrealist texts and alternate histories, speculative modes proliferate across our contemporary cultural landscape. Speculative aesthetics play on the tense,…

I dwell in Possibility -A fairer House than Prose -More numerous of Windows -Superior – for Doors – What’s a window, to a poet? For Emily Dickinson, above, the act…

In what follows, I explore how the 2017 French translation of Susan Howe’s landmark 1985 text, My Emily Dickinson, as Mon Emily Dickinson by the Dickinson scholar and prolific translator…

all that you touch you changeall that you change changes you [ . . . ] During this “Dim Age” governments defined parts of the North American Southwest as zones…

One Chicago evening in spring 2013, I sat behind Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a small black box theater. We had gathered to see the experimental troupe Theater Oobleck as they…

In “Toward a Personal Semantics,” a poem published in June Jordan’s 1971 collection Some Changes, Jordan describes a speaker’s hesitation at trusting an unnamed interlocutor’s words: if I do take…

What are the social forms of poetry today? In asking this question for this cluster, we want to place reciprocal pressure on these two central terms — social and forms…