Essays, columns, reviews, talks. Collectively-drawn map of the field. Chronicle of things read and seen. A view from the factory floor. Listening and linking to poetry soundfiles. Screen memories and other notes.

Attention Span 2012 Anselm Berrigan. Anne Boyer My Common Heart Spooky Girlfriend 2011. Totally opened up when I read it back to front, which set me up more acutely for the logics of its arrangement. The voicing structures morph under their surfaces in all these odd ways. Hoa Nguyen As Long As Trees Last Wave 2012. Joe Brainard Collected Writings Library of America 2012. Leslie Scalapino Way North Point 1988.

This journal is basically for us fat ladies, so we can share our recipes as well as our kitchen, gardening and eating adventures. Friday, December 19, 2008. Mafrukeh begins with a thin layer of semolina pudding flavored with ghee, orange blossom and rose blossom water and sugar. Znud el sitt is also known as Ladies Arms. You stuff filo pastry with Ashta, deep fry it, and add the usual accompaniment. Monday, December 15, 2008. Ashta is the Arabic word for cream, and the Lebanese variet.

Thursday, May 31, 2012. A year and a half ago, when I was working in the Edinborough Corporate Center in Edina, I was taking my lunch break in Edinborough Park. It had been a strange day, and I was allowing myself to use my lunch break, to, well, totally space out. And when I space out, I really.