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Cliff FymanCLIFF FYMAN attends weekly readings at the Poetry Project where he has taken workshops with Harris Schiff and Bernadette Mayer. Poet Marc Olmsted describes C.F. as a 'Pacifist Zionist vegetarian PostBeat Objectivist Zenster.'
RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
Cliff Fyman’s Taxi Night
Review by Jim CohnDEC 21-JAN 22 | Poetry
In the late spring of 2021, as life in the United States was sputtering back to life after the pandemic, Cliff Fyman’s Taxi Night was a vivid reminder of the way the talk had been going full throttle before everything came to a crashing halt.
A Selection of Drain Poems
By Ken L. WalkerMAY 2022 | Poetry
Ken L. Walker has published two chapbooks—Antworten (translations of Georg Herwegh from Greying Ghost) and Twenty Glasses of Water from Diez. He has poems and translations in Boston Review, Tammy, Seattle Review, Atlas Review, and ANMLY. His prose and reviews can be found in The Poetry Project Newsletter, Hyperallergic, and Diagram. He holds an MFA from Brooklyn College, works in advertising, and spends the rest of his time documenting drains.
RIZOMA: Poetry & Performance Workshops at Santiaguito de Almoloya Women’s Prison
By Emma GomisSEPT 2020 | Special Report
In March of 2020 I went with a group of artists, poets, and musicians to the Penal Femenil Santiaguito in Almoloya, Mexico—a prison center for prevention and social reinsertion.
Interspecies Efforts at Close Reading
By Kameelah Janan RasheedMAY 2022 | Critics Page
In 2021, while being interviewed for a story in Art in America, the writer mentioned a paper by Jane Gallop entitled “The Ethics of Reading: Close Encounters” (2000). After the interview, I printed the essay from my home Xerox machine and set it aside. A few days later, while going through my weekly readings, I noticed a smashed bug! It seems that it crawled into my printer and became part of the text itself. A new composition emerged: a smashed bug whose expelled bits and wildly distributed printer toner obscure the original text. With this highly textured new text, we are reminded that a text is never finished. The substrate, the paper, can hold annotations, emendations, evolving textures, and glitches.
