I wrote a little chapbook for Lake Rats Dispatch called Sun & Earth. The first line–“The Sun Is A Terrorist”–for a nation that calls a lot of good things terrorism and makes a lot of bad things law. Lino & letterpress cover. Get it before we’re all gone. All proceeds I get from it will go to the Sameer Project.
We do our best to be hospitable to poets passing through Buffalo. But we can’t stop the house next to us from catching on fire. Which is a not uncommon occurrence in certain neighborhoods in Buffalo. Old houses, old wires, a few generations of downwardly mobile inhabitants in an emptying neighborhood, deferred maintenance, newer power-sucking appliances, fire.
Abonado asked me about how to make poetry and politics play with each other. My thoughts in this area are very much evolving. Here’s a slice of it:
JH: “I think the art of a poem is being on time, right?
JOE HALL 