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 [...]
Category Archives: Poetry
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 [...]
Alice Walker’s Garden
May 14, 2010 – 3:25 pm
I know Alice Walker won the Pulitzer for her fiction, but I’m all about her essays and her poems. I’m particularly obsessed with her womanist essays from the 1970′s. She is rad for so many reasons that I can’t begin to mention here, if you’re curious about the amazing life she has led go to [...]
Nox by Anne Carson
May 5, 2010 – 4:00 pm
Anne Carson’s new book Nox, about her brother who died in 2000, is more like an object when you first look at it- it is done in an accordion style printing that unravels out of a box. I can’t lie, normally if something looks like it has a gimmick to me I tend to think [...]
Rebecca Keith
April 18, 2010 – 9:35 pm
Rebecca Keith’s poems, essays, and interviews have appeared most recently in Best New Poets, 2009, The Laurel Review, The Rumpus, and The Millions. She was a semi-finalist for the 2010 “Discovery”/Boston Review poetry contest and has received honors from the Atlantic Monthly and Bomb magazine. She holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College [...]
Literary Death Match
April 12, 2010 – 10:19 am
Opium’s Literary Death Match (billed as a blend of Def Poetry Jam, American Idol and Double Dare) comes to NYC this week. It’s a mix of emerging and famous authors who perform a piece of writing in under seven minutes before an audience and a panel of judges. This Wednesday, Dossier contributor Emma Straub performs [...]
