Biotic Portal at Strawberry Creek is a project by poets Denise Newman and Hazel White based out of the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, where they held open studio hours from October 2015 through June of 2016. During this time, they worked toward building an Index, a book-length catalog of conversations …
The feelings that arise while watching j/j hastain perform cannot be summed up easily. Perhaps: disorientation, perplexity, concern, empathy, or intrigue. Some may find themselves disturbed or entranced by the shifts in individual emotions and collective energy occurring in the room. Viewers may progress from one emotion to the next …
A review by Jackqueline Frost of Nico Peck’s The Pyrrhiad (Dirty Swan Projects). The first full-length title from San Francisco’s Dirty Swan Projects is a slim collection called The Pyrrhiad (2014). First appearing as a chapbook from Trafficker Press, Nico Peck’s verse story of the red god Pyrrha is a …
In part two of our interview with Sabrina Dalla Valle, we discuss how she arrived upon the form for 7 Days and Nights in the Desert (Tracing the Origin), which was selected by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge as the winner of KSP’s Firsts! contest. (Read part one of this interview here.) ASM: …
New Kelsey Street Press author Sabrina Dalla Valle elaborates on her poetic and philosophic influences, as well as her writing practice, in this two part interview. Anna Morrison: Congratulations on winning KSP’s very first Firsts! Contest. We’re proud to have 7 Days and Nights in the Desert (Tracing the Origin) …
Last week, in our audio catalog, we posted a discussion with four founding members of KSP. Today, I’m pleased to post a Q&A with Mg Roberts, a current Kelsey Street Press member whose first book not so, sea was just published by Durga Press. Mg has made many contributions to KSP, …
This is where I lose track of the line, among other things. Half a life ago I was someone/something else veering into gray ovals in the horizon, elongated in an effort not to disturb. Marching towards color as in the movement of ejaculation This is where I lost track of …
A review by Margaret Rhee of Iris A Law’s Periodicity (Finishing Line Press, 2012). In Periodicity, every poem is exquisitely embodied as small yet complex anthems of love for the lives and legacies of female scientists. In her debut chapbook collection, poet and editor Iris Law centers women scientists—such as Marie …
Denise Newman and Hazel White’s poetry installation “Botanica Recognita: Signage to Facilitate a Greeting” ran at the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley through January 20. Twenty-five poems on plant signs occurred throughout the garden. Each poem had five elements: the caretaker, the plant’s chief collaborator, the plant’s poetic …
Below is text and photography from Valerie Witte’s and Erin Heath’s visit 2 of Hazel White’s and Denise Newman’s collaborative poem project at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden (text in italics are quotations from a few of the poems). Poem 1 If I walked that day / just beyond campus / which …