Articles by Kiki Petrosino
April 27, 2010
Thrill Screen: Poetry and Performance 4
Consider that when this video premiered on MTV, I was four years old. “Thriller” broke all kinds of new ground for the way it merged storytelling, music, and filmmaking, but all that was nothing to the absolute crater this video—and Vincent Price’s reading—left on my tiny, brand-new imagination.
April 15, 2009
National Poetry Month: Kiki Petrosino 1
Kiki Petrosino’s first book of poetry, Fort Red Border, will be published by Sarabande Books this summer. A line of poetry by Kiki: “You can’t lie to a machine. You can travel anywhere, in the right machine. I would like to talk about trumpet cases. And toolbelts. And those large, leather folios for carrying architectural [...]
