PRISM Quartet’s Brilliant, Uncanny ‘Mending Wall’ Premieres at Roulette
The production consists of four pieces by four different composers, working from the themes of walls and boundaries, and inspired by four separate poems.
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The production consists of four pieces by four different composers, working from the themes of walls and boundaries, and inspired by four separate poems.
Cowen was revolutionary and shattered gendered boundaries on and off the page like her male counterparts of the Beat generation. The only difference – Cowen received no applause.
Now that we’re here, what do we do? Grief demands observation. It’s not easy.
Moten treasures working with friends like Arthur Jafa, but has no interest in being asked to “legitimize…artwork on a marketplace.”
The auction includes a rare first edition of ‘Wuthering Heights.’
Lorde’s poetic mastery and powerful modes of self-identification have grown to become extremely influential.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex chatted with a Los Angeles-based youth poetry class on Zoom.
Writing is—even if it’s done privately—still always a performance. And I think writers/readers tend to forget that, especially because the “writing is a lonely practice” idea is so deeply ingrained. Which I guess brings to mind an interesting but maybe…
In the case of both the poet and the artist, it is this thrusting of their own complex, “problematic” (for their times) personhood out into the elements that contributes most forcefully to their modernity. Their complexity.
Long into old age, Adrienne Rich was a steady vocal presence, speaking out against the Clinton administration while also championing young poets. A new biography examines her undervalued influence.