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Rabbits are capable of tenderness especially when pounded.
Feng Sun Chen, from Blud (Spork, 2012)

By Stina Kajaso

Jaded are my souvenirs, for they swell beyond the festivals where I tout them.
Um, soiled assassins are beautiful wearing the genocide they traveled to find me, but that’s love.
Sean Kilpatrick’s translation of Rimbaud, Boston Review: http://www.bostonreview.net/NPM2012/sean_kilpatrick_poems.php
(Picture by Emeli Theander: http://www.emelitheander.com/index.php?/projects/chin-chin/)

(Picture by Emeli Theander: http://www.emelitheander.com/index.php?/projects/chin-chin/)

“I also came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together. The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use in my poems are the same as the letters I send into the miserable world.” (One of my favorite poets, Kim Hyesoon, in interview with Ruth Williams: http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/williams_kim_1_1_12/)

“I also came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together. The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use in my poems are the same as the letters I send into the miserable world.”

(One of my favorite poets, Kim Hyesoon, in interview with Ruth Williams: http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/williams_kim_1_1_12/)

On the Issue of “Accessible” Poetry!

“Death Drops”

(Read Lucas de Lima’s analysis here: http://www.montevidayo.com/?p=1674)

My Little Pony Poetry Video by Tytti Heikkinen

“Who Wants to Die for ART?”

“The Writerly Text”