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I met Kimberly Alidio in the summer of 2021, as a student in their Kundiman workshop, Documentary Poetics: Archive and Counter-Lyric. During our last session, we had been reflecting on Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s interview in Jacket2, in which she talks about poetry becoming entropic, losing energy, and finding new form. My notes from this conversation include: “You go where the energy is.”

When I read Men and Sleep, and even before the explanatory note at the end of the book, I kept wondering about the process of its creation, which you announce succinctly just before the poems begin as a procedure of modified erasure. My question isn’t so much “what does that mean” as “what do you think of creative procedures in relation to the result?”

Rosa Alcalá is a poet and translator whose work has received support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room, and the NEA. Her book Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña was runner-up for the PEN Translation Award. Her fourth poetry collection, YOU, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press.

The opening line of Patricia Spears Jones’s elegy for Nicaraguan-Salvadoran poet and journalist Claribel Alegría, who died in 2018, envisions a poet who “marked her days with rage & love.” Alegría is thus a model for Spears Jones’s fifth collection, The Beloved Community, which is similarly animated by such “rage and love,” as the poet navigates with grace and grief the “blood, blame, and curses” (“Fred Hampton Born This Day”) of Am...

For poet Carlos Soto Román, the task is not to ask about the after with respect to memory but to think it as a field of counter-documentation—one that does not, unlike many oft-criticized sociological studies and Truth Commissions, instantiate an arbitrary finality and closure—that continues to enclose/foreclose on itself, only to contradictorily acknowledge these same historical fissures and cuts.

How to Dance in Ohio, the first Broadway musical with openly Autistic actors playing Autistic characters, is currently running at the Belasco Theatre. This is quite ironic for me because recent neurodiverse representation on that particular stage has historically been… not great. 

a href= https://www.makigallery.com/ target= _blank MAKI Gallery /a presented Deliver to Your Soul, Japanese artist Koichiro Takagi’s second

It took Anderson Cooper more than a year after his mother’s death to begin clearing out her apartment. It was an emotionally draining task, one t

a href= http://www.ippodogallery.com target= _blank Ippodo Gallery /a presents Eternal Garden: Metalworks by Shota Suzuki, the long awaited second

Michael Bishop, an author who was best known for his award-winning science fiction but who ranged far beyond the genre, venturing into realism, noir m