Death Agony
-Cesare Pavese

I'll wander around the streets until I'm dead tired
I'll learn to live alone and look every passing face
square in the eye and still stay what I am.
This coolness rising in me and reaching for my veins
is a morning waking I've never felt before,
never so real. Except I feel stronger
than my body, and this morning's shiver is ( Read more... )

"I would rather be a pet rock than a pet television."

-from one of my student's homework assignments

so who can give me some suggestions for using hip-hop in the classroom? the idea is we would deconstruct the lyrics and try and figure out   
xo

everyone is obligated to download this album ( Read more... )

i'm very eager to see the future of hip-hop scholarship. i can't help but think about how it is going to be the "new jazz" in the sense that it will be discussed critically and legitimately in a forum that will respond intellectually. perhaps, to some, this would be a bad thing. that this would be a "bull-shitizing" of a culture "untainted" by ( Read more... )

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i've been doing work on a spectacular journal pebble lake review and would really like you to check it out and send poems, fiction, or creative non-fiction (lyric essays! send lyric essays!). we would also be interested in other graphic (b&w) mediums. founded in 2002 by amanda auchter, plr regularly ( Read more... )

this poem knocked me on my ass last night. he's got some poems in a recent issue of pebble lake review

Statistics

She thinks I'm too young to understand.
After impact, flames look for survivors.
Small toys deflate across a damp road.
At rapid rates breath can collapse.

What keeps dropping and won't look up?
This heavy lung, a melting wrist.
The Chevy's ( Read more... )

check out betsy's poem on VD!
http://www.versedaily.org/2007/somethinglowend.shtml