Dear Reader,
Night Call is a project about people and intimacy. It’s also about the internet, our lives, and a highly personal relationship with art.
For the next few weeks in New York, in the late evenings, I’ll read poems in the bedrooms of strangers and lovers (and to anyone who asks). If…
I interviewed Alex, one of my favorite poets writing today. Happy Love Day.
“Just having a visual identity, an aestheticized visual identity as a poet…that upsets certain people. Our culture’s comfortable with individuals who do one thing and who neatly and without protest fit into one category. You’re an actor. Or you’re a pop star. Or you’re a poet. And this is what it means to be that, and this is how you act and dress and conduct yourself. That’s so boring to me. I’m not going to follow those rules.”
How do I exist?
This was the silence I wanted to break in you.
”—Adrienne Rich, from Cartographies Of Silence (via somesmallghosts)“The only way to make something yours is to be aware of everything that it isn’t.”