by Ryukan | Dec 21, 2011 | Blog
With the start of a new year, so comes the opportunity to look ahead, in both life and writing. On the 3rd of January, 2012, Graham Isaac will facilitate a brief discussion of what it means both conceptually and practically to set goals for ones’ writing....
by Ryukan | Dec 11, 2011 | Blog
If, as Marvin Bell’s quote for last week’s Living Room suggests, poetry differs from prose for what it leaves out, why do some writers cast a poem in prose form? When does prose become poetry? When does poetry become prose? When do either prose or poetry...
by Ryukan | Nov 28, 2011 | Blog
Living Room has been brewing with ideas about poetics lately—from the Dada-esque/anti-Dada primal sound poetry of Kurt Schwitters, to Anne Sexton’s reappropriations of myths, and new ways to look at Thanksgiving. All this has led some rich conversations, however at...
by Ryukan | Nov 17, 2011 | Blog
As Thanksgiving approaches school children learn the story of pilgrims, Plymouth rock, helpful natives and thanks. As those children grow older they realize that the way the pilgrims gave thanks was genocide. That kind of ruins the story. Using examples such as...
by Ryukan | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog
Ted Berrigan (Nov. 15, 1934-July 4, 1983) was a master practitioner of a multiplicity of strategies for making poems, among them appropriation, collage, collaboration, misreadings and mistranslations, found poetry, and list poems. In his mix of voices and sources he...
