PRELIMINARY ORDERS: Second Army, X Corps, 21st Division, 62nd Infantry Brigade, 1 October 1917 The two lead companies will advance as light as possible and thus will not carry shovels. Nothing superfluous will be taken. … Read More
Liz reading “Stand To” from Salient
Stand To Now that you have gone you are forbidden to tell me where you are. I live on Field Service Post Cards, reverie, and the belief that we are inviolable and eternal and matter. … Read More
Four Poems from SALIENT
Since 2013 I have been working on SALIENT (forthcoming 2020), a long poem geographically centered in Belgian Flanders in late 1917, where the British Army fought the battle of Third Ypres, known … Read More
“Tree,” by Stratis Haviaras
A prose poem I re-discovered this morning, by my good friend the poet and novelist Stratis Haviaras. I will take this chair apart and build a tree with it. I will stick new leaves on … Read More
On Break with Laura Jensen
Reverse-engineeering Girls on the Run, by John Ashbery, proceeds apace. I have been moving into new work by using the syntactical mechanisms present in GOTR, which enables narrative, addressee, time, and speaker to slide around. But yesterday I sought … Read More