Brilliant article from The Paris Review, Kafka’s Misdiagnosis by Aaron Schuster:
”One of the lessons of Kafkian neurosis is that human beings are the astoundingly resourceful architects of their own cages”
Gorgeous evening jazz at Saturn Road in Brooklyn
🌬️ " Grief is wearing a dead person’s dress forever."
“Do not write a poetry of rarity, or of rarification, but of never again.” - Kevin Young 🌬️
Been losing so many things lately — now I have a Seeing Stone!
Finished reading: My Struggle, Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgård 📚
💬 “The true has about it an air of mystery or inexplicability. this mystery is an attribute of the elemental: art of the kind I mean to describe will seem the furthest concentration or reduction or clarification of its substance; it cannot be further refined without being changed in its nature. It is essence, ore, wholly unique, and therefore comparable to nothing. No “it” will have existed before; what will have existed are other instances of like authenticity. The true, in poetry, is felt as insight. It is very rare, but beside it other poems seem merely intelligent comment.” - Against Sincerity, Louise Glück
Unicorns in The Met Cloisters
One of the greatest poets. Every poem is so finished. Finished reading: The Golden Book of Words by Bernadette Mayer 📚
Happy Friday! We made it.
Hania Rani the composer of Sentimental Value was a guest on NTS Radio, a gorgeous selection of modern classical pieces, perfect for working or walking. You can listen here.
Rad venue underneath an instrument store, local bands only. Main Drag Music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
As an avid fan of the party game Mafia/Werewolf, I’m loving the show The Traitors. I want to be on it so badly or at least play the game. Someone help me get on this show or rent a fancy manor so I can play please
If you’re in New York City and want to see a poetry reading, I’ll be giving a reading Tuesday at 730pm in the East Village. 💐
Finished reading: The Bronze Arms: Poems by Richie Hofmann 📚
🎵 Songs going into the weekend:
Shoot From the Heart by Jude Tzuke
Finished reading: No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July 📚
🌬️ Poem: Nothing in That Drawer by Ron Padgett
One of my favorite sonnets –
Nothing in That Drawer
Ron PadgettNothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.