bodyliterature:

“We’d just graduated from university. We had Wilhelm Meister and Kindred by Choice coming out of our ears with all the Goethe we’d been exposed to. We were young girls and firm-fleshed, our eyes hunting for men. We had no money …”

- Nora Iuga | Sunday European Fiction | B O D Y |http://bit.ly/10rgpB3

WHO IS A CONTEMPORARY POET?

“What does it mean to be a contemporary poet? It’s a trickier question than it seems, and not just because of the difficulty in defining poetry. In fact, the greater part of the difficulty may come in defining the nature of the contemporary.”

- Robert Archambeau in B O D Y
http://bodyliterature.com/2013/04/24/robert-archambeau/

“ALL OF YOU ON THE GOOD EARTH”BY ERNEST HILBERT, REVIEWED BY JOSHUA MENSCH: http://bodyliterature.com/2013/04/19/friday-pick-all-of-you-on-the-good-earth-by-ernest-hilbert/

“We’d just graduated from university. We had Wilhelm Meister and Kindred by Choice coming out of our ears with all the Goethe we’d been exposed to. We were young girls and firm-fleshed, our eyes hunting for men. We had no money …”

- Nora Iuga | Sunday European Fiction | B O D Y |http://bit.ly/10rgpB3

“Before you knew words, you’d toddle / open-mouthed, chomp down on the leg // of a table, couch arm, seated ass / of a grown-up…”

Tara Skurtu | Poetry | B O D Y | http://bit.ly/17ddXNJ

Six poets, one van, a tour across America, and a whole lot of enthusiasm ….

Line Assembly is a kick ass new project by Adam Atkinson, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Zachary Harris, Ben Pelhan, Anne Marie Rooney, and S.E. Smith. 

Learn about it: http://lineassembly.com/
Support it:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lineassembly/the-line-assembly-poetry-tour-and-documentary

“the hammock, the cherry, the shelves, cool glade we built in the middle of the city, / dogwood, forsythia, mountain laurel we believe—Believe in Boston—are in bloom, would / rise and blossom even in our absence.”

Jill McDonough | Poetry | http://bit.ly/YuoyhA

“…. those you loved rose and fell.
You could say, time to take grief for a walk,
to break down in the starless park a little,
as words break, or clarity as it forsakes
the sword of language that labors to be clear.”

- Bruce Bond | Poetry | B O D Y | http://bit.ly/114r1T5

“It’s so rare to find a work of conceptual poetry that is also so satisfying to read, not just to talk about …” 

- Joshua Weiner on “Sonne from Ort,” an erasure project by U.S. poet Christian Hawkey (b. 1969) and German poet Uljana Wolf (b. 1979), published this month by Kookbooks.

http://bit.ly/ZQETwi

“Right after my ninth birthday, my Daddy had a tantrum that made him punch a hole in the wall, made his right hand break, made his secretary walk out; and that made him punch the wall with his left hand and he break that one too, and that was how I ended up Daddy’s secretary summer before fourth grade.”

- Read an excerpt from Oscar-nominated writer Lucy Alibar’s new work-in-progress (“CARL THE RAPING GOAT SAVES CHRISTMAS”) in B O D Y | http://bit.ly/ZUP31w