Last Bender

I have been wondering when, if ever, Americans were going to wake up and take to the streets in defense of their lives and communities, and now it seems to be happening, at least in Madison, Wisconsin. The Tea Party and its minions have been full of passionate intensity with brown shirt style attacks on [...]

The Jivin’ Ladybug is an exciting poetry journal I just came across via Silliman’s Blog. The link is to a poem by Will Alexander, and as always his hypnotic surreal jazz is compulsive, propulsive and explosive. i sometimes think Alexander is the only contemporary poet I can stand. He leaves theory shivering in its shorts.

1. lately collisions with walls. sharp touches sharp and soft on soft always what should be but not now nor ever really like that. sometimes sharp on soft collisions. sometimes hot like a stove not like: did you see him? i’ll take one of those; or hear about these collisions they have seen and paid [...]