First, my sincere apologies to all J's Theater readers for the typos that pop up here too frequently. I try to be meticulous about these entries, but I've found it's gotten more difficult reading and reviewing material on a laptop screen--though not on the iPad, which has a higher resolution, or on printed texts, such as books, students' manuscripts, or my own critical and creative work, which I always print out and edit by hand, with a pencil or...
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Apologies + J's Theater Gets Cited in Putin Critique + My Former Agent, Redux
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Saturday, 28 January 2012
Poets Theater Piece Live on Seven Corners + Ryan Lizza on Obama and Governance
Posted on 19:48 by Unknown

Seven Corners: Kenning Poets Theater PerformanceIn December 2010, at the invitation Patrick Durgin, a poet and the publisher of Kenning Editions, I participated with five other writers (Daniel Borzutzky, Duriel Harris, Jacob Saenz, Leila Wilson, and Tim Yu) in a weekend poets' theater experiment in Chicago to launch The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater: 1945-1985, edited by Kevin Killian and David Brazil. I wrote up the very exciting event in a...
Posted in Barack Obama, Kenning Editions, New Yorker, Poets Theater, politics, Ryan Lizza, Seven Corners, Steve Halle
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Friday, 27 January 2012
Blogs vs. Term Papers
Posted on 23:25 by Unknown

Thank the gods it's Friday afternoon, which means a little respite from classes, at least once the afternoon rolls around. I often feel like I've just emerged from a threshing machine by Friday morning, and today was no different, but by the end of class I felt as I often do when I finish teaching, mentally and intellectually energized, and I even after some student meetings, capable of completing and launching a few new blogposts. So here goes!***Often...
Posted in Andrea Lunsford, blogging, Cathy Davidson, Duke University, education, Stanford University, Twitter
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Thursday, 26 January 2012
Movies/Latinos/Race
Posted on 23:30 by Unknown
I am going to post a review of the new movie Red Tails (and one of the still relatively new Shame) soon, but watching the film it dawned on my yet again that Hollywood, by which I mean the entire constellation of people, institutions, structures, and the system of and for mainstream filmmaking in the United States, still has no sense, even after being a century into its development, and over 400 years since black people first arrived on the shores of what is now this country (or 500+ in this hemisphere), of how to portray us on film. But it's not...
Posted in Afrolatinos, black people, cinema, domestic workers, ethnicity, film, Hollywood, Latinos, race
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Poem: Jean Valentine
Posted on 22:58 by Unknown
If the winter quarter is akin to a mine, I am deep down in it, so very deep that I have only a memory of what the surface air, the light, the faces up above look like. A mine of fiction, student fiction--and the grade is a steep one. Often when I am making my way through thick tunnels of prose I think of poetry, hear it, long for it, and today I thought of a poet, and of a poem, that has stuck with me since I first read it, back in 1995, when...
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Say No to PIPA & SOPA
Posted on 18:55 by Unknown

Wikipedia, like many sites, is offline today to protest PIPA & SOPAThe US Congress is considering two bills, the Senate's Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the House of Representatives' Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), that would censor the Web and Internet, constrain everyday users' access to online materials, and place additional, unnecessary regulations on businesses. Millions of people on the Internet have already opposed SOPA and PIPA.The Senate...
Monday, 16 January 2012
Happy Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Posted on 08:57 by Unknown

Happy Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Here is the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s commencement speech at the historically progressive Oberlin College in the year of my birth. So much of what he said all the way back then has come to pass, but so much still awaits our hard, dedicated, unflinching work. From the Oberlin College archives:"Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution"Commencement Address for Oberlin CollegeBy Rev. Dr....
Saturday, 14 January 2012
Oh No, the Snow
Posted on 12:27 by Unknown
Classes are entering their third week, but it feels like three months have passed already, and the spring temperatures that popped up for a few days didn't help; I really began to think I should be expecting final revisions on short stories and final critical papers because of the balmier temperatures and people scooting through the streets in shorts and flipflops (!), but a reality check came swiftly enough with the snowfall two days ago. ...
Friday, 13 January 2012
Hirst: Out, Out Damned Spot
Posted on 15:40 by Unknown

Hirst's "Urea-13C"Gagosian Gallery (Librado Romero/New York Times)Two autumns ago as part of a colloquium sponsored by the California Institute of the Arts I gave a talk on poetry, money and society at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in which I cited Damien Hirst's infamous diamond-encrusted skull, "For The Love of God," as emblematic of the logic of capitalist aesthetics. He (and a few others, including the Black-Eyed Peas, for...
Posted in abstract art, art criticism, conceptual art, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, New York
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012
MUTO Manifesto/Exterface Studios
Posted on 20:47 by Unknown

One of the things I love about the Internet, at least as it now exists, which is to say before it is walled off into privatized, unaffordable bailiwicks ruled by a few very rich companies, is that you can surf and happen upon things that you might never encounter if you didn't have the wherewithal to travel, weren't located in a cosmopolitan area or had access to one, didn't know people in the know, and so on. When I was younger, I avidly visited...
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