Saturday, March 13, 2010

Wish I Could've Been Back Home...

The annual Split This Rock Poetry Festival was held this week in DC. The Nation has a great article on the event pertaining to our definition of language and its need for reinterpretation. Mullen would be pleased.

The festival also examined contemporary poetry and the declining printed sphere.


Here's a good excerpt on language:

Words are luggage for our politics, and those of us who are writers have a special responsibility to prevent the erosion of their value and meaning. I want to compose poems with words that can wear pants and shirts without creases.


1 comment:

  1. Looks like a politically active group! Jan Beatty interviewed me on the radio once, and she did not come on softcore...

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