Frank O’Hara’s Notorious B.I.G.
The affinities between New York’s most mercurial lyricists.
English-language Poetry in Hong Kong Now
We can certainly no longer say that ‘[t]here is no English-language literary community from which to draw some kind of affinity or against which to react’. One just has to go out, be receptive, join a group, and meet and mingle with other like-minded people.
She’d jotted down many questions, each marking a point on a borderline in the text where either her concentration failed or her resistance to Suah’s narrative succeeded. Passages underlined in blue, margins filled with wavery scribble; the train had been rocking back and forth.
Poetry of Negation and the Negation of Poetry: Dissidence and form in Vietnamese poetry
Dissident poetry resonates against oppression, advocates for democracy, reveals previously undisclosed information, and attacks (the dogma of) traditional values associated with state power.
No One Promised Us Anything: Poetry in Mexico City
The act of climbing a platform and reading poetry in the street is part of the literary transformation that’s arisen in Mexico City. Poets no longer seek closed spaces where only their acquaintances attend to pat them on the back as an institutionalized greeting.
Mahua Modernist Poetry as a Translational Practice
Sometimes condemned as an “ethnic literature” of a minority ethnic group not properly integrated into a “national culture,” Mahua literature faces constant questions of self-definition and autonomy.
Oakland, poetry, and radical empathy.
I think loneliness is a beautiful emotion, it respects your inner desires, and one should be thankful to have those.
On reading and writing books in two centuries.
Consumption of Culture as Politics
In Mexico, state-sponsored films allow symbolic critique to supplant structural change.