Nin Andrews interviews Annie Boutelle
NIN ANDREWSThis is such a beautiful book (How They Fell).  I’m not sure how to begin, so I guess I’ll start with the beginning, or the opening poem, in which... Read More
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ADA Awareness Month: Robert Carr and The Cultural Access Network Project
As I mentioned in my first piece for ADA Awareness Month, I recently attended an ADA Plan training session facilitated by John McEwen and Robert Carr of the Cultural Access... Read More
For Florenz: “To Forgive Is” by Pamela Spiro Wagner
from We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders to beginand there is so much to forgive:for one, your parents, one and two,out of whose dim haphazard couplingyou sprang forth roaring, indignantly alive.For this,... Read More
For Florenz: “Goya’s Instructions” by Baron Wormser
Before the stench is viciousSketch the corpsesWhere the bomb has visited,Where limbs and torsos roostObedientlyAnd the vitals lie openTo frank but harmless light. Resist the impulse of simile.Art instructs usTo... Read More
ADA Awareness Month: “Disability Is Not Just a Metaphor” from The Atlantic
“Pop culture’s more interested in disability as a metaphor than in disability as something that happens to real people.”
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For Florenz: “The Salt Of Our History” by Mark Nepo
Florenz left a caring mark on each of our books, bringing them into the world. -Mark Nepo  The Salt Of Our History from Surviving Has Made Me Crazy The net... Read More
For Florenz: "Body of Diminishing Motion" by Joan Seliger Sidney
“Body of Diminishing Motion,” which must have caught Florenz’s attention as title poem to the book she chose. I’m forever grateful to her, when, after several months of hearing nothing from CKP,... Read More
For Florenz: “Childhood Elegy” by Joseph O. Legaspi
When I think of my first book, Imago, which would forever be my first, I can’t help but feel immense gratitude.  In part because I felt heartened and validated that someone, a... Read More
For Florenz from Joan Cusack Handler
Dear CKP Friends- Today, October 18, is a sad day for all of us here at CKP –it marks the first anniversary of the death of Florenz Eisman, CKP’s Managing... Read More