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.
Oakland, poetry, and radical empathy.
The pieces you will find in this issue address not just the end, but perhaps what happens after.
“I do not believe in the poet as a prophet. I do not believe in the poet as a revelator of absolute truths. I do not believe in the poet as a warrior. I think the poet is a sort of journalist of himself who uses language to flirt with beauty.”
it can be a comment about desire it can be anything in one word
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.
We might say partial education is sisterhood and brotherhood of, with, and for the general antagonism.
Full Stop Quarterly: August 2017
This issue of the Full Stop Quarterly is concerned with the processes and systems that make up and facilitate writing and reading, and in particular with poetry, the perpetual avant-garde.
Leisure, hanging out, as the ground for collective practice, as emergent, collective practice under constant revision, but also as the struggle against the time and unit measures, against the access, of logistical capitalism. Leisure as struggle. That was Michael Brown and his friends.