Solid Quarter

Blogging about poetry and poetics with a focus on the New Orleans poetry community.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Doll Baby: A Tale

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Everyone has a story about a doll: these babies came wrapped up like little mummies  each with its own piece of webbing: cocoone...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

Dario Robleto at NOMA

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There are some obvious reasons why I like Robleto's work, but it's not all bones. His exhibit Prelives of the Blues has a wide rang...
Friday, May 25, 2012

New Chapbook from Dancing Girl Press

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a city/ bottle boned by Megan Burns I'm very happy that this chapbook came out on Bob Dylan's birthday. So happy I sang Song t...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Kittens and Skittles

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I love the use of the umbrella here.
Monday, May 14, 2012

Claude Cahun: Aveux non avenus

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from Disavowals or Cancelled Confessions (translated by Susan de Muth) originally published in Paris, 1930 and limited to 500 cop...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Pierre Joris on Paul Celan: poetry, politics, & translation

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Pierre Joris on Paul Celan in the 21st Century: [Film Description from Youtube: A video recorded at the Edison-Newman Room, Houghton Libra...
Thursday, May 03, 2012

Power, Minstrel Shows & Nicki Minaj Masks

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The Nicki Minaj Project is not an attempt to discover a truth, but an attempt to gain entry into a mirage.  As it shifts, we lose focu...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Poetry and 2 years out from the BP Disaster

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Last Friday, I was invited to the New Orleans Museum of Art along with poet Gina Ferrara and Artist Tricia Vitrano to talk about poetry and ...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Yoniphobic Language: Azealea Banks

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Between costumes:      and between the desire for:        and who decides what spins:              here's a snip/ snip: the a w...

Green-Wood Cemetery Video

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A short film about Green-Wood Cemetery:
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Days: To Write "of"

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OF Rachel Blau Duplessis: Draft 3: Of http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/DuPlessis/Robins-1988/DuPlessis-Rachel-...
Monday, April 09, 2012

Language is Disappointment: A Series of Days

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listen: http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/People-Like-Us/Stifled-Love_%5B2002%5D/People-Like-Us_05-Dolly-Pardon.m...
Sunday, April 08, 2012

The Nicki Minaj Project: Mask

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Masking: Subliminal Tricks the art of posing: what the eye gets, in other words how the world is refracted/ reflected bac...
Friday, April 06, 2012

Day 5/6: Come Late & Never

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Kurt Schwitters Collage: 1919 Das Undbild [The And-Picture] 1919 Bild mit heller Mitte [Picture with Light Centre] List...
Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Day 4 Prompt: Rivered

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    The Mississippi River and its floodplain are home to a diverse population of living things: At least 260 species of f...
Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Day 3: Prompt, Netted

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"the fact of being kept, the act of keeping"  -Deborah Poe, "Keep" - David Halliday , photographs ...
Monday, April 02, 2012

Prompt 2: Brakhage

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Examine Light: "It isn't only what is unsaid, you see, we have very few words to express the scientifically recognizable p...
Sunday, April 01, 2012

Surrealist Prompt: Claude Cahun

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Write: "It isn't enough to be good for clumsy sparrows, you must be able to help mechanical birds take flight" -Claude C...
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