Jacket2.org Website Review

collaborative responses, archival docu*ents, podcasts, and descriptions of poetry symposia and projects. Not unlike a daily news The work of New Zealand poet Bob Orr Vaughan Rapatahana (new) You dont have to think of it as poetry: Joanne Kygers Descartes and Bird Books Artists across another terrain: Non-Kiwi interpretations of Kiwi poetry Overseas representations of New Zealand poetry Vaughan Rapatahana (new) Crowdsourced close reading: Four members of the ModPo community discuss Clark Coolidges (and Charlie Parkers) Blues for Alice From left: Jeff T. Johnson, Whitney Trettien, Amy Paeth in the Wexler Studio of the Kelly Writers House Rachel Zolf strongly undoes any such easy distinction. The work insists on the reality of nonsubjective language, managing to coerce this aspect of meaning up to the writing surface so that we can no longer repress its inhumanity even as we inevitable find ourselves. A REVIEW OF CLAIRE MARIE STANCEK'S 'OIL SPELL' “… to find logical narrative in the ‘mas*crash’ mindset … would be to yield to the grammatical hierarchy that engenders dehumanizing social structures — structures that objectify human subjects and contaminate land with oil.” Above: NASA Satellite photo For Stancek, “conformism” refers to the linear patterning of English grammar as well as today’s most popular experimental poetics: she subverts all trends with poems that feel entirely new. Other topics include industrial and media pollution, covert drone wars, heterose*ist oppression, and police brutality. Stancek montages visceral imagery related to each of these subjects throughout, implying that all such problems stem from the hierarchical social ordering inherent to the oil that fuels our industrialized minds and occultist “opening noise” and irritated lyric, Stancek warns that “darkness spreads fu*ks        up borders between things” Photo of Serena Chopra (left) by Kasey Ferlic. Photo of Aditi Machado (right) by Siddarth Machado.