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And if this was a theater, who was the audience?
My month of wanderings & wonderings (wanderunderings) began with my thinking about literary community. All of the posts have navigated those waters. I initially had sent out an email to a number of contributors for the most recent edition of [out of nothing], that is issue #6, asking for any responses, thoughts, reflections, dialogue. Andrew Choate […]
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How Could “We” Forget: Thinking through Heriberto Yépez’s The Empire of Neomemory
*** It’s (Neo)Memorial Day, a perfect day to think about the dangers of imperial memory and the potential power of forgetting. This is a continuation of my month-long musings on literary community, forgetting, trans & genderqueer poetics & more on [Outward from Nothingness]. Enjoy! *** Up until a few years ago, I’d only […]
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So Much Remnants
Creativity is our only true revenge. Being creative is the revenge against all the bastards trying to break the spirit of our fellow humans. We will meet it all, together, and no other way. Fear is not an option, is not even capable when we meet it all, together. - CA Conrad + A lot […]
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Forgetting What Is Remembered
I promised my next report from the Symposium on Trans & Genderqueer Poetry. But the Symposium has come and gone and I did not post. I took notes, lots of notes, but I didn’t post. So often, when something “special” happens these days, I resolve not to share it on the Internet at all. It’s […]
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To Wait in Waiting
I question if such comfort of belonging actually exists and at what point the visibility of certain bodies obscures others. How much can we trust our perception and senses? - Bo Luengsuraswat (from a poetics statement in Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics) I set out on Wednesday evening from Houston on […]
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Who’s In Here?
Years ago, when I started getting occasional acceptance letters along with the mountain of rejection letters from journals, I was thrilled. That I’d have readers. That I’d find people with whom to talk about my work. Or that somehow a network or community could be formed this way. But it became clear to me quickly […]
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Out of Everything
A month never seems to end on its last day. April continues to reappear in cold fronts rushing south in May. These posts are popping up out of the field of Saehee’s. +++ How does the artist create in the outer regions? How does an artist continue to be fed there? What are the myriad […]
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Long Live May
Hello {Outward from Nothingness} readers, It’s May 1 and so happy May Day. Let the May blogging begin. (Except also this month, there will be some overflow from April as Saehee Cho posts some additional work related to her theme of translation. Saehee set the bar high with her work last month. There’s no way […]
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May Guest Editor: JOHN PLUECKER
Starting on May 1st, [out of nothing] is excited to present our next Guest Editor: John Pluecker. John Pluecker is a writer, interpreter, translator and co-founder of the language justice and literary experimentation collaborative Antena. His work is informed by experimental poetics, radical aesthetics and cross-border cultural production. His texts have appeared in journals in the U.S. […]