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Comfort and Challenge

Premium post · July 13, 2021

Past book logs, with the current one in gray on the left. In recent years, I have not been consistent about keeping a journal or diary, which I did through...

Pillar of Books by Moon Bo Young

July 8, 2021

I want to note before I dig into this month’s dispatch that I have a fairly in-depth essay about my relationship to reading that will go out to paying...

Stanza Break: May reading list and June update

Premium post · June 10, 2021

Happy June, poetry friends, First of all, I want to share that the terrific journal Yalobusha Review published three of my Psalms in their new issue earlier...

Artaud the Mômo by Antonin Artaud

June 8, 2021

In my undergrad theater classes we occasionally read selections from the 1958 Grove Press edition of Antonin Artaud’s book The Theater and Its Double, but...

April by the books

Premium post · May 21, 2021

Happy late-May everyone! This spring continues its theme of being A Lot and I want to thank you for your patience as I was two weeks behind on sending out my...

The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz

May 20, 2021

I grew up in a moderately religious family, and attended a Catholic high school and a Lutheran college, so I suspect I’ll be working to understand my...

April is the whatever

Premium post · April 8, 2021

Happy April (and National Poetry Month), friends— March was appropriately lion-like for me, at least as far as creative projects go. After launching Stanza...

The Sabotage Manuals by Ida Börjel

April 6, 2021

I saw this tweet while I was reading Miximum Ca’ Canny The Sabotage Manuals by Ida Börjel and it articulated my main gripe with the book: direct action and...

The Clock Tells the Hour

March 24, 2021

A brief note to invite you to The Clock Tells the Hour next Wednesday, March 31, at 7pm U.S. Eastern (6 CT / 5 MT / 4 PT). I’ll be reading a new piece as...

On Stanza Break

Premium post · March 5, 2021

Happy Friday! As I wrote at the end of the first free newsletter I sent a few days ago, I’m thinking of this project as a way of talking to myself about the...

Guillevic's Geometries

March 2, 2021

The concept of Guillevic’s Geometries feels distinctly French to me, combining Beckett’s minimalism, a constraint like those the Oulipo developed, and a...

Small dispatches on poetry in translation and books outside of a publicity cycle

February 3, 2021

Welcome to Stanza Break, small dispatches on poetry in translation and books outside of a publicity cycle. The U.S. publishing and publicity cycle is...