Tyrone Williams teaches literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. An experimental poet of a rare breed, Tyrone has authored four books of poetry, c.c. (Krupskaya Books, 2002) , On Spec (Omnidawn Publishing, 2008), The Hero Project of the Century (The Backwaters Press, 2009), Howell (Atelos, 2011) and a number of chapbooks including AAB (Slack Buddha Press, 2004), Futures, Elections (Dos Madres Press, 2004) and Musique Noir (Overhere Press, 2006). . .
The Hogg Project
In one of his few written harangues against the composite absurdity of his ethnic, racial, social, political and sexual lives, the late Detroit community actor, fiction writer and poet William Hogg summarized his ridiculousness—vis-à-vis the city in which he was born—thusly: “Let’s face it, Detroit ain’t made for a white faggot who thinks he’s black, regards his sexuality as important ...
[ The Hogg Project ]
Madhuja Mukherjee teaches film studies at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India and is the joint coordinator of The Media Labs. Also a young avant-garde filmmaker and screenplay writer her maiden film Carnival was recently screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in the "Bright Future" category. A recipient of the prestigious FTII Golden Jubilee fellowship for writing the histories of the regional cinemas, Madhuja has published numerous articles on Bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan, gender, media, urban cultures, New Indian cinemas etc.
Narratives of Development
The problem of space and more specifically the ‘city’ in the post-modern context has been addressed critically in a varied way by Henri Lefebvre (1974), Michel Foucault (1977), and later by David Harvey (1989), Edward Soja (1989), Mike Davis (1990) as well as Fredric Jameson (1991) et al. While debates on ‘global cities’ have become crucial, problems of a South-Asian city like Kolkata and its contemporary transformations remain largely unaddressed. Kolkata transformed drastically after Independence and partition. Its streets became glaring testimony of the political quandary, history of immigration, cultural uprootment and economic problems...
Thom Donovan edits the weblog Wild Horses Of Fire, now in its 7th year. His book, The Hole (2012), published by Displaced Press, can be purchased through Small Press Distribution. He is currently at work revising and editing a book of essays and statements, provisionally titled Sovereignty and Us. Thom teaches at Bard College and lives in New York.
Withdrawn
“Withdrawn” is a draft of a forthcoming book of poems and other texts. Like my first
book, The Hole (2012), it responds to conditions of friendship, community, and the
relationship between private and public life during a series of ongoing disasters,
both global and local, actual and virtual, ecological and geopolitical. In the process of
writing The Hole I realized that what separates a “book” from a collection of texts
has something to do ...
[ Withdrawn]
Neelanjana Banerjee is a poet, fiction writer, blogger, editor whose creative work has appeared in the The Literary Review, World Literature Today, Asian Pacific American Journal, Nimrod, A Room of One's Own, Desilit, the anthology, Desilicious, The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (HarperCollins India, 2011) etc. She is a co-editor of Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press, 2010). She has taught writing and media skills to youth through the San Francisco WritersCorps and YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia. Neela was an editor and blogger with the Asian American magazine Hyphen.
Rabindra Sarobar Series
I originally watched the Twin Peaks television draft of a forthcoming book of poems and other texts. Like my firstseries, created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, when it aired in 1990. I was 11 years old and my older brother would be responsible for setting the VCR to record the shows on VHS tapes. Though my suburban Ohio life was nothing like the anachronistic Northwestern universe Lynch brought to life, the show became a touchstone for me. The mystery of who killed Laura Palmer, the town’s illicit love affairs, the dark depths of the Red Lodge—these all became embedded ...
David Baptiste Chirot is an amazing litterateur, artist, reader and critic. Born in Lafayette, Indiana, he grew up in Vermont and also lived in Gottingen, Germany, Arles & Paris, France, Wroclaw, Poland, Hastveda, Sweden, Boston and Milwaukee. Since 1997, Chirot has contributed essays, visual & sound poetry, performance scores, prose poetry, poetry and book reviews in 70+ different print and online journals in USA, Brazil, England, Spain, France, Germany, Russia, Chile, Australia, Yugoslavia, Italy, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, Turkey, Japan, Holland, Belgium, Uruguay and India.
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Hidden in Plainsite/Sight/Cite : An ANARKEYOLOGY
I have been working for the last few years on a number of inter-related projects across a variety of media: short stories, prosepoems, essays, Visual and Sound Poetry. The two pieces shared here present several of the major elements of my project, my interests, researches and, quite literally, "findings," as I have a profound belief in the Found, everywhere around and among us, hidden in plain site/sight/cite. In both my written and Visual/Sound work, I make a great deal of use of found objects, letterings, forms, phrases--just as the characters--the one fictional, the other historical--in the pieces here--both make use of the Found in creating the series of impersonations, anonymities, "playing of parts," camouflages and vanishings which they see as creating "writing at a ...
[ An ANARKEYOLOGY ]
Pat Clifford is the author of several chapbooks including A story by fair: Rules for Radicals (2006), Ring of Honor (2007), Embrace (2010) etc. With Aryanil Mukherjee he is the author of chaturangik/SQUARES(CinnamonTeal, 2009) & The Memorandum/MOU (Kaurab, 2012). His poetry and prose have appeared in Jacket, Helix, Sunday Indian, Kaurab, journey90s, Moria, Pennsound, Kabisammelan etc. An independent lit-scholar, Pat has read in the SUNY, Buffalo, Bangla Academy in Kolkata, India and in workshops in San Francisco, Louisville, KY and Kolkata. His poetry has been translated into Bengali.
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Missives for Curtis Gram
Missives for Curtis Gram was conceived through an ongoing engagement with the writing of Carleton Beals. This progressive American journalist was quite popular in the 1920’s and 30’s and was seen by his contemporaries as “the dean of American correspondents writing about Latin America.” His 1928 interview of Augusto Sandino in a remote Nicaraguan camp was his first international breakthrough. Afterwards...