No Help for That | Jackie Clark

I’m reading this Friday at the Issyra Gallery in Hoboken at 7pm with Russell Dillon and Matthew David Campbell. It’s always great to read Jersey side. Facebook link here.   Come say hi. Otherwise, here we are. 2016.

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Yes, I hold that male colonization of our imaginations—a calamity while ever we were unable to give shape to our difference—is, today, a strength. We know everything about the male symbol system; they, for the most part, know nothing about ours, above all about how it has been restructured by the blows the world has…

“Poetry  aims for an economy of truth–loose and useless words must be discarded, and I found that these loose and useless words were not separate from loose and useless thoughts.  Poetry was not simply the transcriptions of notions–beautiful writing rarely is.  I wanted to learn to write, which was ultimately, still, as my mother had…

I am reading this Friday for Bloof Books as part of the Philalalia Book Fair.  If you happen to be in or around Philly, come say hi. Otherwise, things around here have been quiet. It’s that feeling of not knowing what is supposed to come next. It’s that feeling of needing to keep moving forward…

It’s been a while since I’ve updated here.  I don’t know why. It feels like I’ve had nothing but time, just a giant empty nothingness of time. I guess that’s why I haven’t updated…but things have happened! I read at Popsickle at the end of June and again at the Poetry Festival on Governor’s Island…

Short notice here, but I am reading at Molasses Books tonight with Joshua Ware, Jeff Alessandrelli, Trey Moody, and Amy Lawless. Big thanks to Jeff for asking me to read.  Information for the reading can be found here. The reading starts around 7.30pm.  Then I have to hightail it out of there to make it in time…

I don’t always find things on the internet anymore that really bowl me over.  It’s hard to remain sensitive to all the content out there when I sit here day in and day out and (un)consciously absorb a great deal of it, both interesting and not. But I think the stop motion animated short Head Over…