Poetry on the Mind and in the Brain
April 1, 2019
Keith J. Holyoak discusses National Poetry Month and “The Spider’s Thread: Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry.”
April 1, 2019
Keith J. Holyoak discusses National Poetry Month and “The Spider’s Thread: Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry.”
April 17, 2017
We are back for National Poetry Month! This week we’re looking at French poet and painter Francis Picabia.
June 24, 2016
Recently rereleased by Semiotext(e), Cruising the Movies, is an acerbic, queer-eye take on the greats and the not-so-greats of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Written by Boyd McDonald from a single room occupancy in gritty 1980s New York, the book takes no prisoners in its reviews of famous films from a bygone era. Some of McDonald’s targets include the Reagans, Steve McQueen, and Gary Cooper, throwing shady before it was even a thing. Cruising the Movies with its quick wit and DIY aesthetic reads as a sort of punk-poetry for the then underground gay scene. In our concluding Pride Month installment, William E. Jones, who wrote the introduction to his book, reflects on Boyd McDonald’s importance to a culture that is vastly underrepresented in history.
January 5, 2016
In honor of National Bird Day, enjoy an excerpt from John Bevis’s Aaaaw to Zzzzzd: The Words of Birds. In this passage he answers the question, “What’s so special about birds?”