Articles by Anne K. Yoder

March 3, 2011

Belladonna* and Kundiman Celebrate Theresa Hak Kyung Cha 0

If you’re in New York this weekend,  join Belladonna* and Kundiman for a celebration of what would have been the 60th birthday of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (a full life cycle event in the Chinese/Korean lunar calendar). Nine poets, including Cathy Park Hong, Myung Mi Kim, Sina Queyras, and Anne Waldman, will perform a staged reading from [...]

February 18, 2011

Staff Pick: The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature 3

Potential is a dreamer’s word, an ideal state that may never be. Perhaps that’s what makes it a writer’s word.

February 1, 2011

Viva the Memoir! 0

Deb Olin Unferth’s memoir Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War hits shelves today. To celebrate the genre, she’s curated a special section in this month’s Guernica, with selections by Joshua Cohen and Rozalia Jovanovic, and forthcoming pieces by Porochista Khakpour and Clancy Martin.

January 31, 2011

Je est un autre: David Wojnarowicz’s Rimbaud in New York 4

Wojnarowicz was deeply aware of the trajectory he shared with the youthful and precocious Rimbaud.

December 21, 2010

“The reader emerges … refreshed but crippled” 2

Emily Gould champions Barbara Comyns‘s overlooked novels at The Awl. One more deserving mention: Comyns’s haunting Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead.

December 19, 2010

A Year in Reading: Anne K. Yoder 0

This year I fell for books that were pithy and petite.