Bread Alone, Kim Jensen, Syracuse University Press, 2009, Hardcover, 101pp. The trouble with most poetry that addresses contemporary injustice — war, inequality, class, immigration, etc—is that it’s bad or mediocre. I say this as one who in his zombie youth complained that Allen Ginsberg’s Howl was mediocre poetry, however just its complaints. I passed those [...]
Read More...We read in Baltimore today in a dripping-wet tent under George Washington’s horse, or, more exactly, under the horse’s ass, and we followed a strategy which the audience seemed to like. Kim Jensen, a Baltimore poet, read some of my work, and I read some of hers, and we talked about each other’s work. It [...]
Read More...Interviews can be ordeals, but not when Baltimore’s immensely popular and gracious Marc Steiner is the interviewer. Yesterday the poet Kim Jensen and I spoke with Marc on The Marc Steiner Show and read some of our poems. It was a celebratory occasion because Kim had just received her copies of Bread Alone, her book [...]
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