Stretching One's Self Toward Others"In her signature palimpsest of contemporary and Middle English, Bergvall turns Alisoun (that much-debated pilgrim from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales) into a composite for centuries of women, artists, and activists speaking....Whether riffing on activist clothing, xenophobic fearmongering, or the writing of revolutionaries like Emma Goldman and Audre Lorde, Bergvall’s Alisoun embodies the migratory spirit of language." via BOMB |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Dustin Pearson on Jillian Weise's "Beautiful Freak Show"“Up until encountering Jillian’s poetry, I’d more or less repressed or compartmentalized the emotions I felt as a result of my marginalization and always ultimately unsuccessful assimilation, both for fear of how dangerous I thought it was to indulge those emotions and out of societally formed habit. I found a way to misplace, overlook, or normalize horrible things, even if I always survived them." |
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