by Ryukan | May 1, 2012 | Blog
The moving dot can be extinguished in an instant, yet it contains all information, even eternity. Try placing a dot on the undulating waves. The moment I extend my arm, the dot is already gone. —from the essay “In the Oxymoronic World” by Kim Hyesoon, translated...
by Ryukan | Nov 30, 2011 | Blog
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. —Marvin Bell What is erasure poetry and why does Ron Silliman compare it to the play of burlesque or striptease? Come to Living Room to consider the possibilities. After...
by Ryukan | Sep 26, 2011 | Events
The mind writes what is. —Gertrude Stein Zuihitisu is a classical Japanese form that looks like prose but sounds like poetry. Zuihitsu has been translated as “following the brush” or “random jottings.” The poet accumulates anecdotes, impressions, overheard...
by Ryukan | Jun 1, 2011 | Events
We’ll invite ourselves to play with words by moving the words of another poet around on paper. We’ll think about the words that commonly show up in our work, and how we can pull them from one poem to make a thread to begin something new, maybe something similar— maybe...
