There’s a lot about climate change in the newer seasons of Planet Earth. These Ugandan chimpanzees cross a highway for food that farmers have put fences around. The disequilibrium between nature and civilization means the border between is getting less real — even in NYC, a technofeudal capital. Fighting for space in a grocery store here, for example, it’s obvious I’m in the animal world.
Benin Gardner on "planet earth III" |
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"Interview With Mikko Harvey"
"These days writing mostly takes two forms for me: fragment-writing and poem-writing. Fragment-writing happens whenever a fragment comes to mind — it could be a phrase, some found text, a few lines, a memory, or even just a single word. I have a big Word document named 'scraps' that’s full of these. Then there is poem-writing, which is less of a language event and more of what I think of as a brain event. It involves slipping into a state of mind where language feels loaded with potential, and lines seem to connect with unusual clarity."
via ONLY POEMS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Gilad Jaffe on Language as Form
"Temporary things don’t want to be permanent—at the end of the day, I like to think they fall in love with their own uncertainty. The purple vinyl seats melting into the Iowan wall, the orange traffic cones stationed at an intersection in Rhode Island, blossoming. 'The yellow horses spilling from their sidewalk stalls, sidestepping fruit vendors in an inharmonious derby…'" |
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