Monthly Archives: April 2012

SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: JOAN LARKIN

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

AFTERLIFE By Joan Larkin I’m older than my father when he turned bright gold and left his body with its used-up liver in the Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plain. I don’t believe in the afterlife, don’t know where he is now … Continue reading →

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Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre loom over twentieth-century thought. It is hard to imagine feminism, leftist politics, literature, philosophy, or queer studies in the twentieth century without these two giants. Their work has been the topic for hundreds of … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: HANNAH FRIES

Posted on April 21, 2012 by

By Hannah Fries: BUT SEE how an orchid is made to look like sex, or             specifically, like the tachinid fly                         who has landed on a leaf to flash             her private parts in the sun, opening and closing so the light … Continue reading →

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A Crisis in Bahrain

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

  Leave it to the people to make the news and try to spread it. When it’s left to the big newsmakers, the news is nothing more than a short report about the “situation” somewhere. The world paid attention to … Continue reading →

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From the Same Source as Her Power: A Threnody for Adrienne Rich

Posted on April 17, 2012 by

From the Same Source as Her Power: A Threnody for Adrienne Rich by Chase Dimock How do we account for and preserve a writer’s power after she dies? At the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, any researcher who wants to access … Continue reading →

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RYAN ZWENG

Posted on April 16, 2012 by

“Birth” by Ryan Zweng. THE DEATH OF POP by Ryan Zweng The world is ending, or at least the Old World is.  Let’s assume that history will paint this epoch as a crucial moment in social formation; a time when … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: SUSANNA LANG

Posted on April 14, 2012 by

REMEMBERING By Susanna Lang              What has kept the world safe . . . [has] been memory.                                                                                    — John Hersey But we forget, don’t we? Not what happened, but the thickness of it. The rough edges of the table on the … Continue reading →

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