[Plant Poetics and Beyond] To begin, I invite you to close you eyes. Be seated in a comfortable position. First, take a deep inhale in. Exhale with a loud sigh…
In November 2018, the poet Brenda Iijima and I had the opportunity to share an apartment together in San Francisco owing to the generous invitation of Steve Dickison at The…
“What really exists is not things made but things in the making.” – William James “Recognizing isn’t at all like seeing; the two often don’t even agree.” – Sten Nadolny,…
“We are living in the apocalypse. The first moment of life was the first moment of the apocalypse and death. Please, don’t fear the apocalypse.” –László Krasznahorkai “We’re all the…
As presented at the Thinking Its Presence Conference in Tucson, AZ (October 2017). Let’s start with telepathy, which just means, feeling at a distance. So that if, off in a…
This past weekend in Los Angeles was Open Press. I organized and introduced a panel about Interspecies Communication that featured Teresa Carmody, Michelle Detorie, Brenda Iijima, Taleen Kali, & Rosa…
Course Description: “A feeling of unresolved resentment against injustices suffered, a sense of helplessness because of the overwhelming odds against one, a feeling of acute pain in one’s guts and…
In honor of the 20th anniversary of National Poetry Month, we asked Entropy writers to share with us one of the first poems they ever read that got them excited…
Let’s start at the beginning. I’ve been anticipating this film for many years. I had the privilege of going to undergraduate university with Oakley Anderson-Moore where we worked on a…
Birdwolf is a new year-long project authored by the collective Entropy community. It is a collaborative online epic poem written by the Entropy community on a weekly basis. A different…
For Gabriel García Márquez, written for the occasion of The Bluebird Reading series: cien minutos de recuerdos para Márquez, hosted by Jessica Ceballos. “Just as real events are forgotten, some…
The birds aren’t watching you. You’re watching them, while they’re watching everything else. One bird asks who and another bird asks why. The birds gather and disperse, gather…
A small bird sitting on a wire next to a bigger bird next to a bigger bird. One seagull flies into the storm while another one flies away from…
Lose the world. For just a moment, appreciate the great vastness and strangeness of the entire world around you, stretch out your fingertips and feel the air, its frigid cold…