a new measure (poetry report)

A New Measure (Poetry Report)  is a Leo, launched August 9, 2024. Its first year of reviews are as follows (in chronological order):   Words by Robert Creeley Archeophonics by Peter Gizzi Amanda Paradise by CA Conrad Tumbling Toward the End by David Budbill Cold Dogs by Zan de Parry I entered without words by Jody Gladding Stroke by Stroke by Henri Michaux Breaths' Burials by Gustaf Sobin Cahoots, direr than we'd-- by Thomas Delahaye Fecund by Katie Ebbitt Failures of the Poets by Anthony Robinson Trying by Corey Qureshi God Wave by Carlos Lara Ferns and Foam Rubber by Juniper Atom and Void by Aaron Fagan Soft Water by John Coletti Television Fathers by Sylvia Jones If you send a copy of your book, I will review it, too. For reference, I aim to maintain a 1 book per month pace going forward. Thanks for reading, and stay tuned...

  In “Bamboozled #5,” Sylvia Jones writes:   Everything we have          and have been    given is manufactured and bad.   “Bamboozled” is a six-part ekphrastic poem written in response to a montage of blackface figurines from Spike Lee’s  Bamboozled . In an interview , Jones explains that writing in the ekphrastic style—and the “intense, almost conspirational dialogue” with the artwork it affords—enabled her to “unsettle static history” and speak to the legacy of minstrel iconography in the present.   However,  Television Fathers  feels just as absorbed by the future, declaring in the opening poem:   sometimes it’s good to be afraid of the future it’s the year of that feeling everyone has when they’re dancing and I’m not lonely cause I’m friends   with my neighbors, and my childhood home is an airbnb is a brothel of vacationing millennials and hallelujah money, it’s the bootstrap trick m...