-
On Not Getting Over It
Today Linh Dinh has a terrific post on the subject of Power, Money and Fame—a response to this brief note he received from Kenneth Goldsmith (see the comment stream to this post): “Linh: Everyone wants power. And money. And fame.Read More
-
Israeli Poets Protest the War in Gaza
See Linh Dinh’s blog entry here.Read More
-
More on the Massacre…
Linh Dinh offers up some excellent links to information on Israel’s massacre in Gaza, to which I’m adding this one to Naomi Klein’s call for a global movement of boycott, divestiture, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel—a strategy that helped bring down apartheid in South Africa.Read More
-
Manga!
This creepily erotic post on Linh Dinh’s new blog, The Lower Half, reminded me of when I first heard of Hokusai. It was in the following poem by Paul Carroll, whose elegy “Father,” from his wonderful collection Odes, is a classic. (Click here to view a brief interview with Carroll.) Unfortunately, all of Carroll’s books are out of print.Read More
-
Mr. Dinh Goes to Santa Cruz
I strongly recommend Linh Dinh‘s series of posts on his sojourn in Santa Cruz (he spent five days or so in town before giving a reading on Friday, November 14).Read More
-
A Blogger’s Notebook
ODE TO CONNIE FRANCIS AS THE U.S. BANKING SYSTEM COLLAPSES In the midst of a typicallyAmerican money crisis,in which we allall of a sudden findslippery strangersin the Capitoland in our ownbathroom mirrors,Linh Dinh—a poetborn in a far-offcountry ravagedby one of our mostfamous wars—postson his blog a blurryslide show: gorgeousold-time photosof Connie Francis;they parade before usas she bitter-sweetlysings.Read More
-
Seeing Through the American Narrative
Linh Dinh has a terrific post on his own blog and over at Harriet on this grim anniversary. I responded to him with this comment: Linh, I’d like to add the books of Peter Dale Scott to those your post will encourage folks to read. His poetic trilogy Seculum, along with his journalistic works, especially The Road to 9/11 and The War Conspiracy, examine the deep politics behind our major post-WWII national tragedies (those we suffered and those we inflicted on others).Read More
-
Linh Dinh on Linh Dinh
Linh Dinh is one of my favorite writers, and you may get an inkling of his appeal from a terrific new interview with him published this summer in The Pacific Rim Review of Books. Here’s an excerpt: The two cultures I’m most familiar with, the U.S. and Vietnam, are tremendously fake, but in different ways.Read More
-
Eco(logos), Eco(nomy), Community
Today’s Harriet post by Linh Dinh is a transcript of a talk given by Eleni Sikelianos during a panel at the Naropa Summer Writing Program earlier this month.Read More
-
A Comment on “Rupture”
I just posted the below “prose poem” (or whatever) in response to Linh Dinh’s poem Rupture, for what it (my piece, I mean)’s worth…. THE INTRODUCTION The “I” in the next poem is not me. It is a rhetorical device, a psychological-being-state marker designed to make you feel comfortable as the poem progresses. Of course, the poem does not progress: “progress” is a rhetorical term designed to make you feel comfortable with the sense of alienation the next poem means to produce.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
