Arielle Greenberg

Lara Glenum

A new anthology of wicked, subversive young women poets

The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics

Gurlesque

Kink, Pleasure, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Superfreaks

Thaddeus Rutkowski

Han Ong

Mary Burger

Your Impossible Voice #2 features new work from New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow Thaddeus Rutkowski, multiple Best American Poetry contributor Arielle Greenberg, MacArthur Fellow and Berlin Prize winner Han Ong, Bay Area favorites Lewis Buzbee and Mary Burger, and 2013 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award winner Will Alexander. Issue #2 also includes work from a diverse group of other talented writers, both established and emerging: Shruti Swamy, Josey Foo, Laurie Blauner, Rich Ives, Elena Botts, Darren C. Demaree, Mark Jackley, Janice Worthen, S.D. Lishan, and Katy Masuga. Cover art by Abeer Hoque.

Your Impossible Voice Journal

Your Impossible Voice #2

Poems

Given

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Hybrid Genre. A transgenre (prose poem? flash nonfiction?) exploration of fashion, style, body image, consumerism, and other related ventures into of the personal-political, LOCALLY MADE PANTIES is light- hearted, deadpan and deadly serious. After asking herself what she was truly most scared to admit in her writing—what was most taboo—Greenberg realized that, rather than sex or family history, what felt the most revealing and terrifying was to confess how much time she spent thinking about hairstyles and shoes. Stuff that, perhaps, a professor of poetry, a so-called intellectual and feminist, a person who cares about justice and activism, a busy working mother and wife, does not want to admit thinking about. So, in a series of book-length short first-person essays, Greenberg thinks about war, What Not to Wear, fat, conceptual art, lingerie, pregnancy, J. Crew, activism, breasts, street attention, vintage clothes, feminism, Project Runway and money, and the connections between it all.

Locally Made Panties

"Sexually explicit poems that address the radical possibilities of a woman's pleasure and the endless varieties of human desire. Arielle Greenberg's I Live in the Country & other dirty poems exploits and undoes the stereotype of the "wholesome country life." Here, the speaker moves to the country ("where the animals are") in order to live a whole life, one in which she can live honestly and openly in a non-monogamous marriage. Her book is a visceral, erotic celebration of the cornucopia of sexual pleasures to be had in that rural life-in the muck of a pasture in spring or behind the bins of whole-wheat pastry flour at the local Co-op. Greenberg hauls out what has previously been stored under dark counters and labeled deviant-kink, fetish, and bondage- and moves it into the sunshine of sex-positivity and mutual consent. In doing so, she forges new literary territory-a feminist re-visioning of the Romantic pastoral poems of seduction. "I am trying to turn my eye toward joy," she writes. "My heart toward bliss.""--

I Live in the Country & Other Dirty Poems

"This collection of poems, Given, represents the creative work I completed while at Syracuse University, from 1998-2001. The themes and styles vary, but can be said to explore confusions, anxieties and joys over gender, the body, ethnicity, and other elements of identity while employing a non-linearity that imitates dream logic. Morover, the poems are concerned with language itself, as both an abstract medium and a document of contemporary culture. The poems draw primarily from wordplay, personal experience, the detritus of everyday life, and the idiosyncracies of American movies, slang, folk songs, and other ephemera. In writing these poems, I was most influenced by other innovative contemporary American women poets, but I was also reading the New York School Poets of the 1950s and 1960s, and, as is reflected in the title of the collection, looking at Surrealist art."--Leaf[i].

Rachel Zucker

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Cross-Genre. Women's Studies. A lyric essay & total collaboration of extraordinary & shocking beauty, this hybrid text troubles the waters of genre, gender, motherhood, and the politics & poetics of birthing. An exacting and honest conversation between two of our most interesting writers and our most dedicated activists.

A Poemic

Home/birth

Collects one hundred poems that were written about Barack Obama's first hundred days in office, documenting political and personal events that occured during that time.

100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days

Starting Today

Poetry. Jewish Studies. In her second book, MY KAFKA CENTURY, Arielle Greenberg raises the gothic, European ghosts sealed under the glib facade of contemporary American culture. Trying on the sometimes hilarious, sometimes discomforting guises of Jewish folk humor, pop eroticism and kiddie epistemology, she reveals and revels in the cracks and contradictions of a bristling, brainy Babel. "Greenberg remembers that what poetry does best is produce complex meaning in the never-ending possibilities language affords"--Michael R. Allen.

My Kafka Century

Short essays by women poets on mentoring women poets; includes poems by the subjects and authors.

Arielle Greenberg

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