I tend to write about political subjects over at Incertus, but this is personal too, and I suppose if I'm going to give David Biespiel crap about not seeing poets involved with politics, I should at least occasionally come through. As I've mentioned before, I grew up in the south, and NASCAR was a part … Continue reading Leaving NASCAR
More poetry and politics
David Biespiel's scolding essay in the latest issue of Poetry would bug me more if its claims weren't so easy to debunk. Many of the commenters there--and thanks to the Poetry Foundation for not closing them down the way they did the ones at Harriet--did a good job of disemboweling Biespiel's claims by pointing to … Continue reading More poetry and politics
Art vs. Politics
Amy McDaniel over at HTMLGIANT is talking about the aesthetic versus the political in art, and she uses this as part of the basis of her argument. Politics are terminal. They are finite. We might say we are interested in raising questions when we talk about gender or race or other categories that are defined … Continue reading Art vs. Politics
Another Poem to Love 