'Nerve Curriculum' Featured by The Latinx Project NYU: ‘La Treintena’ 2023
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Manuel Paul Lopez's ‘Nerve Curriculum’ (Futurepoem 2023) was recently featured in The Latinx Project's “La Treintena 2023” — where Urayoán Noel highlights 30 (Something) Books of Latinx Poetry that have been making a splash this year:
This book begins with a burst of translingual noise (echoing PJ Harvey) and from there flows into a fragmentary écriture that has something of the rigor and clarity of the conceptual, not afraid of repetition or abstraction. Whereas some of Lopez’s other work has more transparently evoked the San Diego and Imperial Valley borderlands he is rooted in, here the memory of youth and the constitution of selfhood are fascinatingly worked through the speaker’s cousin/neighbor/alter ego, the “Chicano goth” Nestor. Along the way, the book pings with references to everyone from Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi to John Yau, Kenneth Koch, José Olivarez, Jack Hirschman, and Zora Neale Hurston, and to the alternative curricula of Wikipedia and YouTube. Don’t miss the beautiful abjection of “Bird Brain,” the last couplet of which contains its own kind of wisdom: “Of all the rain falling on this planet I’ve somehow attracted / the neon spacey kind that governs like a syllabus of smoke."
January at Futurefeed : Kicking Off the New Year with Writer-in-Residence Anna Moschovakis
A Message to our Community: Resources for Artists in Need
This is an extremely challenging time for our writing and small press publishing community. We know not everyone is dealing with health concerns but the significant economic impact to individual writers, artists, and arts organizations - including small press publishers.
What follows are lists from fellow arts organizations of resources for artists and non-profits in regard to health, funding, work opportunities, and more in response to the international spread of COVID-19. We hope these are useful to you and that they get into the hands that need them most. Above all, we hope that you and your loved ones are safe and healthy in these strange, uncertain times. Thank you for your continued support.
Resources for New York State Arts and Culture organizations, including information regarding event safety, news sources, legal support, arts education support, community building and others.
Resources for artists in times of need including grants, artist's funds, job listings, and sources of daily information on the development of COVID-19, plus upcoming opportunities and deadlines in March and April 2020.
Resources including advice for general preparedness, advocacy alerts, emergency funding, international resources, online platforms, health and mental health resources, temporary and remote job opportunities and more.
A message from Michael L. Royce, Executive Director of NYFA, and a list of resources for preparedness and response to COVID-19 geared toward artists from arts organizations.
A short message and list from the AAAA including arts and culture organizations' responses to COVID-19 and their resources, as well as those of NY State Public Health organizations.
Lots of great resources on this page including relief funds for queer writers and writers of color, as well as a virtual writing community led by Cave Canem with prompts and links to poetry-related readings.
A letter from GIA's President and CEO, Eddie Torres, and a list of resources regarding support for artists, relevant news outlets, and guidance for non-profits.
Resources for employers and employees, response to COVID-19, and response funds and funding opportunities.
Announcing futurefeed, Our New Online Space & Our First Blogger-in-Residence, Douglas Kearney
futurefeed, an extension of Futurepoem, is a new online space where writers, artists +thinkers we admire are invited to experiment and explore ideas that are important to them over an extended period of time.
Bloggers-in-Residence are invited to publish poems, essays, manifestos, letters, critical essays, videos, video essays, experiments, plays, work-in-progress, audio, dreams, comics, short stories, images, interviews, digressions, or lists. At this time, we are not accepting submissions.
Our first Blogger-in-Residence will be Douglas Kearney beginning in November. Stay tuned!
We are excited to present you with our brand new Futurepoem site and look for our press.
From the beginning Futurepoem finding and celebrating daring new literary voices with unique points of view. So we wanted to create a site and new press identity that also expressed a unique point of view, but still felt welcoming and easy to use at the same time. We hope you like our new look. Let us know what you think and any suggestions about how to make our site better. Our sincerest thanks to Jessica Green and Tom Griffiths at Everything Studio for their amazing work creating this new site and press identity.
This blog will be the place to find exciting Futurepoem news about new authors, books, events and upcoming submissions periods. Plus we'll also be posting responses to recent Futurepoem books, posts by special guest bloggers and authors and we will be sharing videos, photos and other great things. So stay tuned — this is just the start of many great things we have in the works for 2015!