Poetry

Fred Moten & Brandon López – Revision

The poet and theorist Fred Moten has long occupied a kind of liminal space on the margins of contemporary jazz music, with his 2003 exploration In the Break a signal text for anyone concerned with the black radical tradition and matters of black aesthetics. Yet while the names of Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, Albert Ayler and Cecil Taylor...

Emily Dickinson – ‘I Can Wade Grief’ (1862)

Emily Dickinson was born on 10 December 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, the town where she would live the duration of her life. She attended Amherst Academy, newly opened to female students, for seven years, punctuated briefly by spells of illness and a stay in Boston in the aftermath of the death of her cousin, Sophia Holland. In her teens...

The Early Poetry of Mina Loy

When the first issue of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse appeared in July 1915 - a new venture out of New Jersey headed by the poet and editor Alfred Kreymborg - it featured four short 'Love Songs' by Mina Loy. Loy at the time was lingering in Florence. Born as Mina Löwy on 27 December 1882 in London,...

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