Manifestos

Manifesto 3 (What poems are for, OR good writing is hard to eat)

I. I’ve always been a little obsessed with cooking shows and food shows. It comes in waves. Maybe because it’s easier to understand the...

Manifesto 2 (what else I'm collecting)

I think about how my brain, sitting there all warm in my head, which I imagine is kind of like a private spa, stays roughly the same size...

Manifesto 1 (Resistance and Refusal)

My poems live in the pivots, the micro-moments that transition us—in fits and starts—further from ignorance and closer to consciousness.

All magpie, no focus

So I’m setting myself this project again. For as long as it feels fruitful, I will write manifesto after manifesto.