Category Archives: Poetry

At Last

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Mazisi Kunene“World Wisdom”The Ancestors & the Sacred Mountain How the body serves metaphor … What will come last will be the truthSince the beating of the heart outlastsThe nakedness of the bones. Lines that call for rereading to reach their … Continue reading →

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Writing the Not Writing

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Anne BoyerWhat is ‘not writing’?Garments Against Women There are years, days, hours, minutes, weeks, moments, and other measures of time spent in the production of “not writing.” Not writing is working […] And so it begins and so it proceeds … Continue reading →

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Calling & Codifying

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Francois Lachance

The will, the injunction, the aspiration. I will call language the forbidden attempt to codify ecstasy Starlings – Lisa Robertson And so for day 314724.07.2015

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A Set of Kennings

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Francois Lachance

A kenning for structure … repetition. Whale-road is a kenning for sea. Time-machineis a kenning for the mind. Alive is a kenningfor the electrified. Terrance HayesAmerican Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin And so for day 314623.07.2015

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Long Distance Longing

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Saeed Tavanaee Mervi“Me, Her, Telephone”The Oceandwellertrans. Khashayar Mohammadi in many ways phones resemble planets[…]that’s why the phone receiver smells of violets And so for day 314421.07.2015

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Alliteration on L

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Francois Lachance

There is / no / lessening, / though / the little/ ubi-sunter / will always / wait / in the corridors / lamentatiously / lamenting / the lamentable / mutability / of lamented things from Andy WeaverLigament / Ligature And … Continue reading →

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Talking About Thinking

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Lisa Robertson“An Awning”in 3 Summers We talked about the difference between an idea and thought.We said that an idea comes and goeswhile thinking continues until death, we supposed. And so for day 313714.07.2015

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Verbal Collision

Posted on July 11, 2015 by Francois Lachance

wPoLrAkY Victor J. Vitanza“Of MOOs, Folds, and Non-reactionary Virtual Communities”in High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOseds. Cynthia Haynes and Jan rune Holmevik And so for day 313411.07.2015

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Economies, Bodies, Art and Survival

Posted on July 8, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Matt Rader“Yellowthroat (1)”in Ghosthawk […]hung haphazardlyin your windowgallery. Art can survive a market economysupposedly,but it can’t survive outsideyour body. […][…] Which raises the question: and how does the body survive? And so for day 313108.07.2015

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Prime Directive

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Francois Lachance

William J. HigginsonThe Haiku Handbook Opener: The primary purpose of reading and writing haiku is sharing moments of our lives that have moved us, pieces of experience and perception that we offer or receive as gifts. Received. And so for … Continue reading →

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