Vancouver: A Poem
January 18, 2010 by Norbert Ruebsaat
The idea that your mind could hold a city within itself and that a city could be a kind of group mind, was exciting when many of us first read William Carlos William’s book-length poem, Paterson, in the 1960s. Williams’ suggestion to give our attention to the things immediately around us, to “the local,” in order to experience a place directly, uninterrupted by inherited ideas or wayward thoughts, excited many.
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Interview with Peter Pereira
January 09, 2010 by The Staff
Reposted from the blog "Poetics" of Geist.com
Geist recently caught up with the poet Peter Pereira who is a family physician in Seattle, and was a founding editor of Floating Bridge Press.Peter Pereira known for his playfulness and attention to line breaks, and we asked him a few questions on poetry, line breaks and his work.
Geist.com: What interested you about doing a cross-border reading?
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