Articles by Anne K. Yoder

April 21, 2011

Get Your Poetry On 0

Danielle Pafunda celebrates her daylong reign over the Academy of American Poets’ Twitter feed with a cento contest: She tweets the lines, you compose the poem, and three winners take home a selection of signed books written by these contest judges.  

April 20, 2011

Questioning the Quotidian: Georges Perec’s The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise 1

Perec’s answer is to dwell on our routines and to realize the intricacies of the everyday.

March 16, 2011

They call it an accident, a catastrophe. But it was a war. 0

n+1 publishes a chilling personal account of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, as the crisis mounts at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

March 16, 2011

Unlikely Connections: Chris Kraus’s Where Art Belongs 1

Chris Kraus’s nuanced approach is akin to a cultural anthropologist who considers creativity in its natural habitats, the spaces where art comes into being

March 11, 2011

What Is Experimental Literature? 0

“I take to heart Percival Everett’s point that all writing begins as experiment. Experiments are hypo/theses; wagers; fermentations or useless admixtures; mud pies and blood pies.” Miranda Mellis talks with HTMLGiant’s Christopher Higgs in the next installment of Higgs’s essential “What Is Experimental Literature?” interview series. It’s worth perusing the the back catalog if you missed [...]

March 10, 2011

Conversations over Stolen Food (in Illicit Spaces) 1

The Faster Times offers up a new dialogue from dynamic duo Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch’s “Conversations over Stolen Food,” which seamlessly segues from Astroglide and Fung Wah buses to Alaskan Brown Bears, and includes a run-in with New York Park Patrol. Images by Paper Monument editor Dushko Petrovich are added eye candy.