“I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.” -Louise Bourgeois-
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Painting of my mother in 1945
Women poets wearing sweatpants
DdlP with Rilke (the former Safeway parking lot cat) dressed to the nines & hard at work [text is from the poem “Penelope at the Wheel”]
What was Women Poets Wearing Sweatpants?
“A feminist intervention. A poetry journal at meme speed. An attempt to give the internet what it wanted. A critique and a joke. A joke of a critique? A lot of fun. Not enough. A pop-up virtual community that published every submission it received. A stocking stuffer advertised entirely via social media, and conceived, curated, and closed in two weeks. A commentary on the too-easy conflation of women’s artwork, physical bodies, and virtual existences. A taking-back of the reigns. A nod to Barbara Kruger. A toast to the selfie. A laugh of the Medusa. Was it snarky? Was it earnest? Was it equalizing? Was it dumb? Was it empowering? It was post by post.
—Becca Klaver
31 December 2013
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“And tell each other how we sang
To keep the dark away”
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Being born is going blind
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Sonder < as a lighted window at dusk >
New chapbook available via The Poetry Center
A new chapbook of the long poem “First Love” was created for & is available for download on The Poetry Center‘s Chapbook Exchange here.
(With thanks to Gillian Conoley for publishing an earlier version of this poem in VOLT, to Edward Foster for re-printing it with an interview on the Talisman Magazine site, to Jeremy Mayer for the cover image of his stunning typewriter parts assemblages, & to Melissa Eleftherion Carr & Elise Ficarra of The Poetry Center for asking me to participate.)