Back to work, into books, toward new writings. As I bring to an end a few projects at the start of this year, and prepare to head into the field and archives for research, I want to re-begin these weekly posts so as to track this work in the midst of composition. Following the MLA Read More
How do deviations from the norm provide an important foundation for radical invention and improvisation in contemporary poetry? Acclaimed poet and scholar Charles Bernstein makes a strong case for the importance of the exception. Bernstein’s talk explores how the process of swerving away from expected trajectories is necessary for radical improvisation and the invention of Read More
This week, I finished a draft book chapter on a (phono)poetics of the human microphone, the people-powered method of sound amplification and multivocalic mode of collective composition, communication and intervention utilized at Occupy protests. The chapter is largely a study of form and praxis combined with a historical sketch: I contextualize the emergence of the human microphone Read More