Written in semi-quarantine with my two young daughters in 2018 (my husband had a stomach virus and we were trying to avoid infecting my mother, whose home we were visiting…
Archive for July, 2021
Heim
It mattered to me that Midwinter Day was 40 because I was 40, too. I was fudging, a bit — just two weeks from my 41st birthday. Had I been…
Tate
The invitation to revisit Midwinter Day and write in collaborative homage was an invitation to return to the book I’d cut my scholarly teeth on. Rereading Mayer’s lists, walks, and…
Workman
There’s something uncanny in reading Bernadette Mayer’s conceptual projects of memory and thought. Was it in Moving (“This is an epic of war fever fighting sex & starvation.”) or Memory…
Introduction to Midwinter Constellation
On December 22, 2018, the 40th anniversary of Bernadette Mayer’s writing of her epic of dailiness, Midwinter Day, 31 women poets joined me in typing into six Google Docs labeled…
Let the plants reproduce!
I live in a rented flat and the garden I am growing — a square of cracked cement cornered by two narrow beds — is the property of a man…
BUT EVERYTHING’S OUTSIDE
KAY: So let’s talk about “The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica.” Mayer’s poem first appeared in her 1976 book Poetry, originally published by the Kulchur Foundation, available for download…