A week of poetry, music, dancing, workshops, exhibits, conversations, food and fellowship, rooted in tradition but focused on today’s rural West.
Tradition and the Individual Talent
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
Forms Upon the Frontier: Folk Life and Folk Arts in the United States (Monograph Series, Vol. XVI, No. 2, April 1969)
Good condition. (folklore, frontier life) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
EVENTS | Write About Now
Write About Now was voted "Best Open Mic" in the country by the National Spoken Word Awards. Don't miss the best poetry events in Houston!
Actual Air in the Purple Mountains: An Interview With David Berman
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
Your Guide to Glamping in Texas
The very best places to camp in style near Houston.
NaPoWriMo
Well, we did it again, everybody! Another April — and another National/Global Poetry Writing Month — have come and gone.
arbourtrary
Trying out a few concepts. Writing about nature, tech, poetry, mathematics. Providing safe arbour in a darkening forest.
My Vocabulary Did This to Me by Jack Spicer | East Bay Booksellers
An essential collection of a highly original American poetWinner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Award for Poetry (2009)Winner of the American Book Award (2009)In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies of the seven small books he had seen to press.
Introducing Oktana
The introductory text for our newly formed collective, Oktana. Read about why we came together, our critique and vision for work and technology and our desires for the present and future of our initiative.
Melissa Lozada-Oliva - Like Totally Whatever
In the Texas Desert, Craft Meets Coding | Artnet News
It was a heady, design-focused desert weekend in Marfa with fiber works, Crypto Punks mirrors, and a lot of generative code.
The Community Artists' Collective | Non Profit | Houston, TX
The Community Artists' Collective is the catalyst which provides the inspirational and educational sources for artists and citizens so that they can use their talents and creative abilities to solve economic, cultural and social challenges in the natural and built environments in which we live, work
The Edge of Fruitvale — Oakland Public Library
The Edge of Fruitvale — DaCosta, Rohan, — Poetry, prose, and photographs.
An Army of Lovers by David Buuck | East Bay Booksellers
"This experimental work is not for the faint of heart, but it is laced with meditations that will appeal to readers concerned with poetry’s role in the world.
Take Your Place: Rhetorical Healing and Black Womanhood in Tyler Perry’s Films
The unparalleled commercial sucessess that gospel-playwright-turned-screenwriter Tyler Perry has attained through converting his stage plays into films that depict black women overcoming personal crises raises questions about the intent behind his seemingly feminist-inspired representations of black womanhood. Through an analysis of the rhetoric of healing in Perry’s first two films, this essay reveals one of the suppressive pedagogical functions of Perry’s representation of black womanhood. Rhetorics of healing are a series of persuasive messages, performances, and literacy acts that writers deploy in order to convince readers that redressing or preventing crises requires them to follow the curriculum for ideological, communicative, and behavioral transformation that the writer considers essential to wellness. In Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea’s Family Reunion, Perry’s representation of rhetorical healing constructs black Christian women as students who must learn prescribed attitudes and behaviors to achieve, or remain in, states of wellness, and these lessons reinforce conservative gender ideologies and reify patriarchal constructions of the family and home. Given black women’s historically tenuous relationships with representations of themselves and their families in mainstream film, and given the ways in which their labor in the home is simultaneously desired and exploited, the popularity of Perry’s films does not suggest that his representations of healing foster black women’s self-empowerment. Rather, his popularity points to a moment where black women’s pain is a commodity and their instructive journeys to wellness are an exploited site where writers can carry out their own agendas.
Thirteen years of Rust and the birth of Rue
Blog post: Thirteen years of Rust and the birth of Rue by Steve Klabnik