The Sealey Challenge Day 4
The Sealey Challenge Day 4
from “Capture” in Fate, Ai's fourth book
“You tricked me,” he gasped
as
Richard Jeffrey Newman
A poet and essayist, I write about gender and sexuality, Jewish identity and culture, writing and translation. My goal? To make connections that matter. I also help other writers do the same.
The Sealey Challenge Day 3
The Sealey Challenge Day 3
Manhood, a dream, an illusion, I think,
as I lay down the photograph
and stand
The Sealey Challenge Day 2
God. The boot heel an inch above your head is mine.
God, say your prayers.
—from Killing Floor, Ai’s
The Sealey Challenge Day 1
For this year’s Sealey challenge, I'm reading the collected volumes on my shelf, starting with Ai’s.
Four by Four #57
Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, Four Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
On My Desk Now: I Still Miss The Friend I Wrote This Poem For
More than anyone else in my life, and despite the fact that we came from very, very different backgrounds, Adrienne accepted me for who I was.
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What Would Literature Be Missing Without You?
[I]f I had never written, if not a single word of mine had ever been published, literature would not be missing a thing.
Towards a Discussion of Male Self-Hatred
The internal logic of this value system, in other words, is less about protecting my sister than it is about protecting my claim to status within the male hierarchy that is a central part of patriarchy’s infrastructure.
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Four by Four #56
Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, Four Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
On My Desk Now - “Finger Exercises” and The Question of Received Forms in Poetry
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Upcoming Reading: I‘m a Brownstone Poet!
I'll be reading with the poets Indran Amirthanayagam and Hassanal Abdullah on June 27
The Source of War
I would never have been able to articulate it this way back then, but I was struggling with the question of whether and how I could resist the militarization of my imagination.