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Iris Cushing

Iris Cushing is a poet and editor living in New York. She is the author of Wyoming (Furniture Press Books, 2013), and is the recipient of a 2014 Process Space residency through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for her poetry performance work. She edits Argos Books.

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Drawings that Trace the Contours of Thought

by Iris Cushing August 28, 2017August 25, 2017

Renee Gladman’s drawings in Prose Architectures resemble not-quite-legible script, registering somewhere on the visual spectrum between image and language.

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Unruly Poems that Illuminate White Supremacy in Everyday Life

by Iris Cushing July 17, 2017July 17, 2017

Poet Nikki Wallschlaeger’s new book Crawlspace discovers the violence embedded in our most familiar structures: mortgages, meals, rooms, houses, family relationships, and language itself.

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Bringing Canonical Thinkers to Bear on 21st-Century Life

by Iris Cushing June 2, 2017

In a new genre-defying book, Jasmine Dreame Wagner subjects her life to critical scrutiny with the help of philosophers, theorists, and artists.

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Frank and Feminist Poems About Encounters with Famous Men

by Iris Cushing March 23, 2017March 22, 2017

Khadijah Queen’s new collection of poems, I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men and What I Had On gathers her firsthand accounts of run-ins with male celebrities.

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Painting a Strangely Spiritual and Sexual Pleasure

by Iris Cushing December 8, 2015December 7, 2015

Loie Hollowell’s current exhibition at 106 Green, an artist-run gallery in Greenpoint, offers up the results of many years of inquiry into female agency and sexual expression.

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A Performance Artist’s Absurd Anatomical Odyssey

by Iris Cushing October 22, 2014

Nine o’clock: the stage lights dim and a spotlight illuminates a stuffed “hero” sandwich the size of a small sofa. The opening melody of Tina Turner’s “We Don’t Need Another Hero” — hit theme song from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome — fills BAM’s Fishman Space.

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Scratching the Surface of Things

by Iris Cushing April 30, 2014

SAN FRANCISCO — “ … Instead of feelings or human adventures,” wrote Francis Ponge, the French Surrealist “poet of things” in 1942, “I choose as subjects the most emotionless objects available.”

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