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Denise Duhamel on Barbieland
Back in the 1990s, creative writing professor Denise Duhamel made Barbie the subject of more than 40 poems for her book “Kinky,” a catalog of prevailing social ills and modern-day realities. (Titles include “Barbie as Mafiosa,” “Barbie Joins a Twelve Step Program,”…
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Dancing old: social statement, cultural reflection, market opportunity, sacred art [By Tracy Danison]
School kids, their adult helpers, parents and neighborhood picnickers doing the first performance of choreographer Laurence Bertagnol’s “Connexion 6: Création Instantanée et participative” dance project for the suburban city of Bagnolet, July 2023. Photo…
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“The Burning Bush” [by Mitch Sisskind]
The Burning Bush [by Mitch Sisskind] John Milton wanted to explain the laws of GodTo man but this is like trying to explain how toRun a car dealership or a discount tire businessTo an…
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“When the Sun Tries to Go Off” [by Mitch Sisskind]
Hey, all you old timers! Remember when Kenneth Koch wrote "Sixty Plays" or whatever it was called? They were hilarious little premises, only one or two sentences long, plus a title — like, "An…
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“Marrickville” by Louise Carter [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
With the directness of paint-thinner, Louise Carter’s “Marrickville” strips away at the euphemisms and self-told fictions a young poet must decorate her life with to sustain her vocation. A share house is “a glorified…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: August 9, 2023
On July 25 Penguin released Terrance Hayes’s latest poetry book So to Speak. In it, he expands upon the American sonnet he so skillfully employed in American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin.…
