Back in April in several blog posts on the Northwestern University's annual spring Writing Festival, I mentioned my participation in a related program, sponsored by NU's undergraduate Creative Writing Program and the Poetry and Poetics Colloquium, that involved working with the excellent young undergraduate creative writing poetry students, who were in turn serving as mentors and teachers for talented, enthusiastic high school poets at Evanston Township High School, the main public school in the suburban city, just north of Chicago,...
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Catching up here on the blog always feels possible at first thought, but by the time I sit down to begin a post, I realize I have something else to do and the blog goes wanting. I do lament it. Blogging has often been a pleasure and served as a respite for me, but perhaps my new daily and nightly rhythms--and Apple TV, which allows me to stream YouTube music videos and Netflix films from our TV--have so disrupted my previous mindset that it has just...
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Yunel Escobar (Flickr / james_in_to)A little baseball news today. First: today Major League Baseball suspended Toronto Blue Jays infield Yunel Escobar, a Cuban native, for wearing eyeblack with a homophobic statement "TU ERE MARICON [sic]" during home game on Saturday night, September 15, 2012, against the Boston Red Sox. At a press conference today in New York City, Escobar apologized and claimed that he did not intend to...
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
A few weeks back, I mentioned the imminent publication of The Obscene Madame D, the first published English translation of fiction by the late, extraordinary Brazilian novelist Hilda Hilst (1930-2004).Two presses, Nightboat Books in the US, and A Bolha Editora in Brazil, are jointly issuing poet Nathanaël's superb translation, in collaboration with Brazilian poet and publisher Rachel Gontijo Araújo, of Hilst's novel,...
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Atlanta baseball player Dan Uggla, autographing outside Grand Central TerminalOutside a Fashion Week show, at the New York Public Library's research branchThe Freedom Tower, at nightOn the PATH train to NewarkAt the Yayoi Kusama show, Whitney MuseumSweltering Fulton Street station, NYCBolivian (Day) celebration, Jersey CityA reporting preparing to broadcast, near the WTC, on 9/11 (2012)The weekend's storm clouds, barreling in from Long Island...
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Monday, 10 September 2012
The bridge over the lily pondThough I have may pots in the kiln right now, I want to let too a week elapse since an event I participated in this past Saturday, at the majestic New York Botanical Garden, which is located in the Bronx: the final reading in the Poetry Society of America's Monet to Mallarmé series, this one dedicated to the poems of Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), the symbolist master, queer pioneer and among the...
Saturday, 8 September 2012
On Friday I went to the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center to hear Charles Rice-González read from and talk about his new book and first novel, Chulito (New York: Magnus Press, 2011). Men of All Colors Together sponsored the event, and Tom Wirth, a longtime MACT member and the editor of Richard Bruce Nugent's Gentleman Jigger (New York: DaCapo, 2008), and Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from...
Friday, 7 September 2012
First Lady Michelle Obama (© Tannen Maury/EPA)I admit, I fell for it. Hard. The three-day Democratic National Convention proved quite an entrancing show, its effectively organized and run evenings showcasing many of the most appealing aspects of the Democratic Party, its politicians and supporters, and its standard bearers, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden, to superb effect. The convention hall brimmed with so much diversity...
Thursday, 6 September 2012
Call slips at the NYPLThis past two month's post-move's worth of scurrying about searching for books and films at local libraries and bookstores, speed-reading, photocopying and scanning, writing and rewriting and re-rewriting syllabi has come to fruition in the form of my first week, and first undergraduate and graduate classes at my new employer. I'll say more about my classes soon, but I'll note that I am teaching two this fall: one in African...
Sunday, 2 September 2012
Clint Eastwood at the RNC (©Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)In past years I have watched both the Democratic and Republican national conventions, or at least larger portions of the former (and nearly all of the one in 2008), and smaller ones of the latter. This year, however, has been different. I only watched snippets of several speeches delivered during the broadcast hour of the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, one of my nightly staples, and in each case...
Saturday, 1 September 2012
Long time, no blogging. I wish I could say that I've been off on vacation, or doing something interesting and engaging, but I've mostly been preparing for classes, continuing to unpack (at a rate exponentially inverse to July, it seems), catching up on reading, writing, revising, and such.I am once again riding public transportation regularly, including to and from work, and instead of my usual iPhone/iPad portraits (which I still am working...
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