"In Mainly Black and Mainly White Rooms"
"In US literary culture, the distinct nature and frequent political content of spoken word exist in tension with the work of academically affiliated poets, who need not display dynamic performance styles to publish and become MFA faculty. Yet spoken word artists typically must earn prestigious degrees (Gorman is a 2020 Harvard graduate), publish books, and preferably win major awards, in order to overcome a seeming prejudice against their performance styles and sometimes their subject matter."
via LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Michael Kleber-Diggs on Sun Yung Shin's The Wet Hex
"Here’s what I didn’t even actually notice until I’d completed both laps through The Wet Hex—at a certain point I put my pencil down. I fell away from concern for craft and entered the poet’s world. For quite a while there, I forgot to think and felt my way through instead—guided by an expert, open." |
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