Jorie Graham’s Poetry of the Earth and Humanity, Set to Music

Jorie Graham’s Poetry of the Earth and Humanity, Set to Music

Reading Time: 1 Min. “Music for New Bodies,” premiering Saturday at Rice University in Houston, sets Jorie Graham’s poetry to music with a chamber group of instruments and electronics, as well as five vocalists. Peter Sellars wanted to know more. He was in San Francisco a few years ago, attending a performance of “ The […]

The Journey of a Madwoman: Between Facts, Memory, and a Fractured Self

The Journey of a Madwoman: Between Facts, Memory, and a Fractured Self

Reading Time: 1 Min.I started with a walk. The walk would lead me into the past. It took me to a hospital. A hospital that was no longer a hospital. That was the idea. I would describe the hospital, my home. If I could walk, I could remember. It wasn’t nostalgia. My memory is disordered. […]

This Poet Flirts With Sentimentality, but Averts It With Wit

This Poet Flirts With Sentimentality, but Averts It With Wit

Reading Time: 1 Min. Credit…Eric Timothy Carlson THE SORROW APARTMENTS, by Andrea Cohen Contemporary poetry isn’t witty. That’s not to say it isn’t funny; on the contrary, it can be extremely amusing, sometimes even intentionally. But for the most part, the art form today vacillates between, on one hand, decrying social and/or personal injustices and, […]

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