Hypergraph Fortress A concrete giant tied down on top of a blanketed cabinet of has-been and lest-we-remember. Deliberately blinded. Senses heightened through loss of others. Located far from eye, far from heart. Invisible through the trees, exposed to icy winds, bitten by frost. Mutilated and crippled, limbs removed. The limits of reduction pushed to extremes. [...]
Category Archives: Poetry
Annoying Diabetic Bitch
March 16, 2011 – 12:44 pm
Sharon Mesmer and Connie Deanovich are both reading tonight, Wednesday March 16th at the Poetry Project. If you haven’t been to the Poetry Project, it is an awesome cultural institution, staffed entirely by poets, that was founded in the 1960′s. It is a gem hidden on St. Marks Place, which as of recently has swapped [...]
Roses are Red
March 9, 2011 – 10:18 am
Just as the weather starts to warm up a little, I am reminded of all of the things I love about Spring. New York City in the springtime is truly an amazing place, as everybody crawls out from their respective rocks they have been hiding under the whole winter and greets the world with happy [...]
Anne Sexton
March 6, 2011 – 3:09 pm
We posted a video by Nick Heavican on our site, which is a non-traditional take on what is quickly becoming a ubiquitous forum on the internet these days- the fashion video. I love the idea of a man reading the haunting Anne Sexton poem- she was one of the first female poets to talk about [...]
Librarians Rule
March 5, 2011 – 4:08 pm
In honor of Women’s History Month, each March, the librarians of the New York Public Library present a month-long series of blog posts highlighting the amazing women they’ve discovered through the print and online resources of NYPL. They have reading lists that include topics such as “Women, Creativity & Madness”, interviews with Riot Grrls, discussions [...]
We’re Band-Aids, not groupies
December 10, 2010 – 4:30 pm
This past year, not-for-profit art center Apexart has started putting together readings of literary up and comers, titled “The Almost Famous Reading Series.” On Saturday, the new series presents Dossier contributor Emma Straub alongside Tao Lin (blogger and author of Richard Yates), Aaron Garretson (shortlisted for the Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009), Fiona Maazel (Last [...]
Dirty Baby Trialogue
November 1, 2010 – 11:53 am
When you mate sounds, poems and pretty pictures, the result is Dirty Baby, a new release by Delmonico Books/Prestel . The publication is more of a multi-media sensory explosion than a book. The collaboration brings together sixty-six paintings from artist Ed Ruscha’s rarely seen bodies of work incorporating censor strips, sounds from composer and Wilco [...]
