Why Won’t You Talk to Me When the World is Ending
I spend my days working for the richest man on Earth Draining bags of blood and dreaming of a robot […]
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Author: SuChur
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Falling in colour
Last summer, every book I read appeared to be about the colour blue. This year it’s yellow. I’m currently in […]
Dear Health “Care”
Dear Health “Care” – What does it look like to care about cures, diagnoses, and medical technologies, ignoring care that […]
The Beautiful Mind of Hedy Lamarr
The Beautiful Mind of Hedy Lamarr Beauty is as mind doesn’t: That’s how to look glamorous. That’s how everyone […]
En Dehors Garde Limericks for Stevie Smith
mad about you
Art by Marcus Krips. https://www.kripskunstspam.de […]
Dear Papa
Dear Papa: I know you are dead and all, but I came across this lovely book with you in it, […]
On the “dehors garde”: some thoughts
Outside is inside, I once misread Bachelard’s French. In terms of notions of the poetics of space, that misreading was […]
The Dunes
I float on the waves where the deer drink water The sun at my hand and the moon at feet, […]
Daylight, Astonishing
Reproductive Circus
Once upon a time, you read that Mina Loy did the worst thing a woman could do: abandon her children […]
From Sibling Mysteries
This is a selection (p.119) from Adrienne Rich’s poem “Sibling Mysteries,” published in the first issue of the feminist magazine […]
Making Something from Modernism
Virginia Woolf talks about the loose, drifting material of life, describing how she would like to see it sorted and […]
Teenage Collage
I have a rough idea of when I made this: 1993 – 1995. I was 17, 18, or 19 years […]
Catch the opportunity of your life
This picture [by Jillian Tamaki, 2015] is a part of the MTA art cards in New York City. It shows […]
Death Could Be Kind
We tend to subconsciously associate darkness with fear and isolation. We tend to stay away from subjects that speak of […]
You Carry the Weight of Narcissus
“Charles Henri Ford and Pavel Tchelitchew,” photograph, by Cecil Beaton. “Narcissus,” photograph, by Charles Henri Ford. “You Carry the […]
A language of Deafish
Deaf listening produces fleeting words in a language here called Deafish. Collage of face in Roman fresco with mouth and […]
My Body Has One Job
My body does not look the way society says it should. It does not walk the way I wish it […]
Everyday En Dehors Garde
This wallpaper sample is of a pattern that once hung in a suburban kitchen (c. 1960-1970). It is the product […]
Can you, here?
What is poetry’s worth in prison? This vertical postcard is a poly-vocal expression of the women writers at Whitworth Women’s Facility in Hartwell, Georgia. It is a collage created from lines of our individual poems and prose reflections on poetry’s value in our lives. It is also our greeting to you. Can you hear? […]
Jean Toomer’s Refusal
Jean Toomer refused to be classified, and it cost him. When he rejected his classification as a black writer, when […]
CRAFT AS NEGATIVE SPACE
Background: Tapestry needlework by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) in negative. Foreground: H.D.’s thimble, my finger inside cropped out. Unboxing H.D.’s archive […]
Stolen Science
Nobel laureates May-Britt and Edvard Moser work together, and they publish both together and separately. They won along with another […]
Fruta Bomba
This video presents a multimedia view of concentrated Miami hyperku as filtered through an Australian lens which allows them to […]
Black Avant-Garde
Avant-garde scholarship must acknowledge that race cannot be separated from politics. Avant-gardists of the 20th century, in their goal to […]
En Dehors Garde Bingo
Self Portrait, June 2018
Unapologetic
Margin/Center
Every margin is a new center. Every center is an old margin. There is no outside text; there is only […]
“After an Election” by Tiffany Austin
A tribute to the work of feminist poet-critic Tiffany Austin (1975-2018), whose unbridled spirit lives on. […]
en dehors Moby Dick
To go beyond the usual avant-garde suspects, we must go beyond nationalism. I have included the concrete poem and video […]
The Lure of Salome:
Embodied, naked and overdressed, subject to the gaze, extracting its profits […]
Afghan Bands
en dehors is the line bending away but let it twist yet once before returning home inner and outer now […]
Early Flash Mobs
In 1987, Suzanne Lacy directed one of my favorite artworks of all times, The Crystal Quilt, a gathering of over […]
Yvonne Rainer and Cupid
A Chthonic Baedeker
A chthonic baedecker guides through wormholes, those openings in the dark leading elsewhere. Come down here and find us if […]
Backward Glances
Shawna Ross considers Katherine Mansfield’s plan for her final book of short stories as a means of speaking about the […]
Pay Attention
Any turn outward must include the voices, works, and daily lives of working class individuals. This is my mother, […]
Instagram Feed: DigitalMinaLoy
By Mahalia Cooks […]
Reviving Frances Simpson Stevens
By Maura Tangum & Sarah Gompper […]
Digital Remediation
“Songs to Joannes”
By Leah Mell […]
Manifesto for Reading Whiteness
in “Songs to Joannes” & Beyond
By Meredith Foulke […]
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Imaginary Levy Gallery
Surreal Carousel
Climbing Costa San Giorgio
March 2018, Linda Kinnahan Visiting Florence last week with a group of Duquesne students, I encountered March dampness with spots […]
Mina Loy sized up on Medium
Charlotte Whalen and Jade French, two PhD students from Queen Mary University of London who are working on women modernists, […]
Mina Loy descends on D.C.
On February 9, 2018, Suzanne Churchill and Linda Kinnahan attended an Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) Project Directors Meeting in […]
Mina Loy migrates to Maine
In late January 2018, we (Suzanne Churchill, Linda Kinnahan, and Susan Rosenbaum) defied the weather gods and traveled to […]
Getting Spliced (redux)
Mina Loy enthusiasts, take note of this forthcoming title from Coach House Press: Suzanne Zelazo’s Lances All Alike (Apr. 2018, trade […]
“Lunar Baedeker” in Poemage
Poemage is a visualization tool that supports close reading. The result of a two-year design study of the value of […]
Loy Site Cited in Call for Papers
Mina Loy team wins $75k NEH grant
We are thrilled and honored to have won a 2017 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the […]
Ghost in an Avant-Garde Alley
James McAuley’s article “The Artists in Their Alley, In Postwar France,” featured in the Style Magazine of the Sunday New York […]
Spontaneous Peer Review
Here’s an example of how digital platforms for scholarship upend the traditional, slow, linear trajectories of academic print publication. Our website Mina […]
Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry
An alternative tradition to predominantly male-dominated avant-garde movements. […]
Delusions of Whiteness
“To encounter the history of avant-garde poetry is to encounter a racist tradition,” Cathy Park Hong argues. […]
Marginalized & Minimized
Women writers who defy convention are marginalized; those who uphold conventions are minimized. […]
Mina Loy Coloring Book
By Meredith Foulke & Elise Foote […]
What is Genius?
Crowd Sourced […]