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Experiments In Text :The Literature That Organisms... (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Rachel Zolf has recently, and perhaps productively, run into resistance on a micro-level regarding her MFA, The Tolerance Project. An extremely interesting / important poetry of resistance, The Tolerance Project emerges as Rachel is pushed into an MFA environment as one of the only viable routes for staying in the U.S. to be with her same-sex partner, given the homophobic laws...
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LEMON HOUND (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Rachel Zolf's Tolerance Project. Hilarious and pointed account of the typical MFA workshop. Zolf has entered one, in protest really, and has cleverly crafted a conceptual poetry project around the experience. Kathryn Mockler is gathering fabulous materials for those coming to poetry, or those who need a little direction. I guess if you're Margaret Atwood you can get away with a...
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Wild Horses Of Fire (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Trish Salah, Robert Glück & Rachel Zolf TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice This new series of talks by major poets, titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, will explore the intersection of contemporary poetic manifesto, practice, queer theory and pedagogy. Too often today, statements on poetics and their manifesto-like style have been moralistic or prescriptive discourses....
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Thinking Again (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... social, and economic problems that MFA programs both suffer from and promote can be found at Rachel Zolf’s Tolerance Project blog. Both Rachel’s initial post and the many responses are all well worth considering in detail: http://thetoleranceproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/statement-to-mfa-workshop-october-13.html A discussion of an entirely different tone and topic,...
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Spooks By Me (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
It's been a while since I've blogged. Blame work, school, and a bike accident that wasn't but could have been very nasty. I have some fabulous bruises, but that's all.This morning I've been reading Rachel Zolf's blog The Tolerance Project, a collaborative writing project with eighty writers, artists, and thinkers from across Canada and the United States. Rachel is the author of...
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LEMON HOUND (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... Case Sensitive and am pretty sure I'll love the new one. . Here's a brief review . I've given Rachel Levitsky's one read and loved it. Need to read again so I can comment, but I can say that it is, like her previous book, Under The Sun, a long poem, an engagement, quite gentle and insistently political.Melissa Buzzeo's is gorgeous. I have to write more about it, and plan to. Mina Pam Dick's...
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Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Rae Armantrout’s poetry Entertainment Weekly on the National Book Award § Eileen Myles talks with CA Conrad § Rachel Zolf : the MFA as an institution within larger state apparatuses Tendencies begins Oct. 29 @ CUNY with Zolf, Robert Glück & Trish Salah § Paul Vangelisti talks with Mary de Rachelwiltz § Federal Trade Commission identifies...
