The "Future" of "Poetry" by Joyelle McSweeney

"The future of poetry is the present, and it has already arrived. The present tense rejects the future. It generates, but it generates excess without the ordering structures of lineage. It subsumes and consumes pasts into its present , erasing their priority. It’s self-defeating; its rejection of survival into a future may be infanticidal..."

Outtakes from Excess Exhibit Photoshoot

You can click on the images to make them larger.

A Little Candy in Your Reindeer Carcass

One of the poems from Excess Exhibit is now up on the delirious hem Advent Kalendar, along with Amaranth Borsuk's and my first photo for the project.

Be sure to check out some of the other poets/poems from the preceding days.

I'll be flying to England tomorrow, but I'll schedule a few outtake photos to go up in the meantime.

Many thanks to Susana Gardner of Dusie for curating the kalender.

Mandate of Heaven: The Whitney I

Carissa Ackerman was kind enough to post a very cool rendition of my performance from last Wednesday up on the Mandate of Heaven blog. You can read the entire poem "New Creature" alongside the images of the performance.

Also, a bit more about the gorgeous dress she created (the "Whitney I"): it's trimmed in vintage rabbit fur, and has a removable hood, which, like all of Mandate's hoods, is enormous, has that fabulous pointy tip, and is very versatile.

One of the things I love about her clothes is that they can be worn in so many different ways, and have many beautiful, surprising details (while at the same time being really comfortable), which makes them rich with potential in performance and storytelling. Each garment seems to speak to the sometimes fraught and sometimes fabulous history of women's fashion in a mischievous way.

One of the other poems I read at the reading was "Gretel and the Witch"--after all, how could I not read a fairy tale poem with that dress on?

Cockettes

The Ravenous Audience Reviewed in Feminist Review

Go here. Many thanks to Matsya Soisal, for this thoughtful review (and I completely agree with her sentiment that art at its best provokes in some way).

"12 Debut Poets" in Poets and Writers

I'm one of the 12 Debut Poets featured in the Jan/Feb issue of Poets and Writers magazine. You can see my author photo on their website.

After the magazine is no longer in stores, I'll post the interview here (I'll try and scan it at work).