Keep your noggin’ fresh whilst listening to these writers (better than doing housework without them)
amous bookshop in my town, City Lights has a podcast series. And below there are not one, but two new shows for your enjoyment. The first is Nelson George reading from The Plot Against Hip Hop (which is my first choice) and the other is Stephen Elliot reading some of the late Charles Bukowski’s work.
Thanks City Lights!
Links are below. Enjoy everyone!
Poem Book Recommendations from Lime Tree
ime Tree is a poetry-focused blog kept by the poet and my friend K. Silem Mohammed. He pretty much has his finger on small press publications and has kindly put together a list of ten recommended books from this year.
And then he went ahead and added ten more.
Thanks, K.!
(It’s worth clicking the link to see the book designs alone.) Enjoy.
We Like Poems Here
y dear friend, Sivan Butler-Rotholz, is the poetry editor of As It Ought To Be. Her selections are always poignant examples of excellent progressive, contemporary poetry happening in the United States.* She has a mean and beautiful eye.
Her note on this Saturday’s poet:
Part contemplation, part meditation, part manifesto, today’s poem considers the world of the word, the sentence, and the book. Here we have a body constructed upon the bone structure of Language poetry, shrouded in prose form and driven by syntax, sharing its spine like a Siamese twin with the idea of the book. Dense with ideas and littered with intimacy, eroticism, and nature in all her reproductive glory, journey through the mind of the poet with today’s exploration of “The book.”
The blog itself is a testament to the inter-linking of art and politics and run by some of the finest minds in both spheres of thought. Go look.
*Full disclosure: this writer has been published by AIOTB.
