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Laura Henriksen by Ben Fama
Laura’s Desires (Nightboat Books) does something that I think poetry can specially do best right now, which is give form to literature that makes space to write about contemporary artifacts—films, songs, ideas—without the dressings of other writing genres that necessitate backstory and character building. In the poem, you can simply speak.
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Writer and musician Ben Fama on learning from what you create
One thing that’s really nice about pop music, to me, is that it feels like it’s a place of fantasy. It’s an acceptable place to explore the kind of feelings that are usually looked down upon as too sincere, or maybe cringe, or vulnerable. Maybe we take something as cringey because it’s a vulnerable thing. What does it mean to you in terms of creating that kind of music?
An Interview with Rosie Stockton
From “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion,” by William Blake I met Rosie Stockton at a party Rachel Rabbit White held, called Porn Carnival: Los Angeles. Rosie’s poems are a treasure chest of poetic forms, with language both proper and rowdy. They’re an Edna St. Vincent Millay of our Gender-Fluid generation. When I saw an announcement for their new book Permanent Volta (published by Nightboat Books), I eagerly arranged this interview.
MFA Alum Jessica Gross on Her Debut Novel Hysteria
By Carissa Chesanek Jessica Gross is a New School MFA alum, writer, and recently published author. Carissa Chesanek sat down with Gross to chat about her new book, Hysteria, her revision process, cognitive behavioral therapy, and writing sex scenes. - What inspired you to write the book? Meeting Freud at my local bar—naturally! - The protagonist is a bit of an unreliable character. She has a lot going on and the reader is left to wonder what is real in her world.
Los Angeles by Ben Fama
Like any subscription member of the Metropolitan Opera fashion bloggers believe they're at the center of perception. I want to go where men go. Is a high school crush on an alien surf girl the same as the need to fatally possess the other and the self? My friends were in a band called Second Life®. Let's get high talk about '90s nostalgia Scientology drink Diet Coke. The Real is a teenager drunk in a turn. A blue dot pulsing down Santa Monica Blvd.
One Poem by Ben Fama - BOMB Magazine
Jan 24, 2018 @shad0w_paws I just said I didn’t know and now you are saying you aren’t sure I’m cool that’s cool I was thinking before I saw you the beauty of ideology if it’s working you think you’re above it the suspension is exquisite?
The Poetry Foundation
The poem's not worth it I'd like to read to you About the traps of the rich But my tastes are changing Even after two sips Though that's when I can But I would take you there Then walk to the open market Some thoughts are not that great The Internet is my home Where it's easy to be beautiful And seen and new God wants us to make out 'Cause I'm in this airport Explaining all of this to you But the stone is cloudy All that comes through This weather should have an entry With direct access to...
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