Modern Americans

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I’ve written a book. I've found someone to publish it. It’s for sale here . I hope you'll consider gett...

Below is our class poem composed at Cato's in the style of the New York School (you can fill out an online application here ). I've ...

Check out the brief bios for John Ashbery (left pic) and Frank O'Hara (right pic). Given the short timeframe, we will be presenting an...

Location: Cato's Ale House 3891 Piedmont Ave., Oakland, CA View Map When: Sunday, May 7, 2:00pm Our all-volunteer last class/end of se...

As a defense for my exegesis of Spicer's "A Book of Music." I refer you to this site http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php...

hey everyone, elka and i are geared up and rearing for tuesday, look out... we'd like you all to pay particular attention to "often...

Here are the Baraka readings for this week: " Somebody Blew Up America " " I Will Not Apologize, I Will Not Resign ", 10...

From the desk of Lizette: Just one further note about Creeley’s abbreviated writing style. I see that many folks tended to connect the “shor...

Since Rodney always has the cool links to contemporary music, I thought I'd try to beat him to it-- There's a 10,000 Maniacs song en...

I had another Creeley poem in mind last night, felt a little nerdy for knowing the poem by heart (though my email address is derived from th...

Since we're on the topic of the Beats and although there won't be time to delve into di Prima's work next week, I thought I'...

Since I’m sick tonight (and I’m pretty certain you’ll appreciate my not being with you physically), I wanted to share a few thoughts and lin...

In Cold Hell, in Thicket In cold hell, in thicket, how abstract (as high mind, as not lust, as love is) how strong (as strut or wing, as pol...

The Kingfishers I What does not change / is the will to change He woke, fully clothed, in his bed. He remembered only one thing, the birds, ...

La Chute III The mother, the pleasure. To return is to advance, to ravin, to hunt is more than the beginning, to enter is more than the womb...

La Chute II If you would go down to the dead to retrieve my drum and lute a word for you, take my word I offer you directions Do not wear a ...

This and the next two posts show Charles Olson (1910-1970) in 1949 working through three takes on similar themes: the mythic foundations und...

Hi everyone, Yesterday evening I attended the Northern California Book Awards sponsored by Poetry Flash. It was exciting. Like the Oscars of...