Kristen Case Q&A on obstacles to becoming a poet
Kristen Case talks about the greatest obstacles she face in becoming a poet.
Kristen Case
Kristen Case Q&A with advice for young writers
Kristen Case offers some advice to young writers and aspiring poets.
Being with Trees
Unwritable withness, being with trees empties out the grammar of which the writing self is made, with which it makes. I want to speak of the relief of being-with trees, but all I can say is that there is relief in the approach to such being, in thinking of being with trees. That is, I […]
Haecceity
This gossamer, this shade of mind, this breathing, this small sleep, this Heraclitian, this circumference, this frame of thought, this root system, this plane leaf, this noumena, this stream, this thought that is called I, this habit, this clockwork, this handwork, this ghost house, this neighbor, this harbor, this topography, this desperate scraping, this language, […]
Fish (for everybody)
A cliché is not to be despised: its automatic comfort is the happy exteriority of a shared language which knows itself perfectly well to be a contentless but sociable turning outward toward the world. […]
Nest
“Two span, two span to a woman…” —Ezra Pound, Canto XLVII Say what you want about my absent- mindedness—we both know a capacity for vacancy is what you came for. The two fledgling robins beside the toppled […]
Kristen Case
Kristen Case is the author of the Little Arias (New Issues, 2015) and the critical study American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe (Camden House, 2011). Her poems have appeared in Chelsea, The Brooklyn Review, Pleiades, Saint Ann’s Review, The Iowa Review, Wave Composition, ELEVEN ELEVEN, and Tinderbox. Her chapbook, Temple, […]