Marie Ponsot discusses her poetry book, Easy, motherhood, hiphop, and of course, poetry. Interview by Marjorie Tesser 2009. Marie Ponsot Easy from Marjorie Tesser on Vimeo. On writing and mothering: Marie Ponsot Advice from Marjorie Tesser on Vimeo. Marie Ponsot reads her poem, “Winter.” Marie Ponsot reads “Winter” from Marjorie Tesser on Vimeo. Marie Ponsot’s most recent books include The Bird Catcher, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry in 1998, and Springing: New and Selected Poems. Professor emerita of English at Queens College, CUNY, she now teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of…
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– As every mother considering What To Name the Baby knows, names matter. They resonate, they project, they herald, they evoke. They are subject to personal and societal associations: I could no easier have named my child Eugene, because of the freckled brat in my fourth-grade class, than Adolf or Idi. The summer I was fourteen, I’d insisted that everyone call me Mia; when they complied, I felt myself infinitely more ethereal than prosaic Marjorie. For us as writers, words are inherently important. They are our palette and our currency, the way we frame and define and color the world.…
Anne Waldman Interview from Marjorie Tesser on Vimeo. A Conversation with Anne Waldman on gender and writing; her epic Iovis project; collaborations with other artists; Manatee/Humanity and more. With Marjorie Tesser Bowery Poetry Club Nov. 2008 Anne Waldman – poet, professor, performer, and cultural activist is the author of over 40 books and small press editions of poetry and poetics, including most recently Manatee/Humanity and the anthology Beats at Naropa, co-edited with Laura Wright. Other titles includeFast Speaking Woman, IOVIS (I&II), Vow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews and Manifestos, Marriage: A Sentence, In the Room of Never Grieve, Structure of the…
The Mom Egg Vol.6 2008 Selections Kate Falvey The Apogee of Consolation The moon is a bent stick behind the hunched back of a crone cloud. I don’t want to pray anymore for fertility. The crone hobbles into midnight and awareness flourishes in the great round rejoicing of my eagerness to see. I want her to be a friend of mine. I want her to build my belly into light. If she doesn’t give me what I want I’ll tear her from the sky and butcher her airiness whole. It is no good pretending daintiness…
The Mom Egg Vol. 5 2007 Selections Radhiyah Ayobami 20 When I was 20 Me and my best friend Ama worked at Popeye’s And after our shift was over We’d change our striped shirts, wash our faces And walk out into the life of the city We’d stop and watch the mimes break-dancing to Michael Jackson On old tape recorders And never leave a quarter in the top hat We’d walk by Toys R’Us And watch the white people buy bags of toys for their kids At a quarter to midnight We’d walk down Times…
INCONVERSATION Mamapalooza: Marjorie Tesser with Cassandra Neyenesch Mamapalooza Marjorie Tesser with Cassandra Neyenesch Last year I participated in a festival called Mamapalooza, and this year one of my stories was published in its journal, The Mom Egg. Both times, I felt a little guilty, like I was pulling the old “I pushed a person out of my body” card just to get a gig. Still, it was a lot of fun to see Mommies I knew being raunchy, lyrical, and musical, among other things. I talked to Marjorie Tesser, co-editor of The Mom Egg and poet in her own right,…