#roxannabennett

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On Wednesday, September 23rd, I’m honoured to be helping @poetrylondon_ca kick off their season with an event featuring Roxanna Bennett and myself. The reading will be launched on YouTube at 7pm EDT. Stay tuned to (www.facebook.com/PoetrondonCA) . . . #gregsantos #roxannabennett #poetry #poetryreading #virtualpoetryreading #poetrylondon #ghostfacepoetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity (at Virtual Events) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFaW8N2gEpj7d51ZvJV8qUVKEOyDnYLFMNO4Go0/?igshid=1fwjilp8qe4kv

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ROXANNA BENNETT

Photo: KIRBY

[tightropebooks]

This entire interview between TC Guest Editor KILBY SMITH-MCGREGOR and poet ROXANNA BENNETT (THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE) is so fucking brilliant. Congrats to you both. 

READ IT IN IT’S ENTIRETY HERE

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Poetic form to me is like sculpture in a way; you have the armature of the form and then lay your words on top of it. Making the concept fit the construct and finding a way to break the reader’s heart within the confines of the structure is what appeals to me. I’m intensely interested in constraint, and I think this is where my visual arts training comes into play, I want to understand how a thing is made before I feel I can successfully deconstruct it. How is as important to me in art as why.

KILBY SMITH-MCGREGOR IN CONVERSATION: ROXANNA BENNETT’S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE 

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Intelligence,” Martin writes, “keeps us from the promise [sic] land.” The promise land, presumably, is heterosexual marriage, which is denied smart women because they insist on discussing Nietzsche and reading Proust aloud on Friday nights. Nietzsche and Proust, ladies. That’s what you’re using your giant brains upon. Not a feminist analysis of The Avengers or the best new Afro-futurism story or news or politics. No, you bore men to tears with your obsession with existentialism and one French man’s extreme attention to detail. If only you could turn off your giant brain and put down the philosophy and dumb yourself down to talk about his career or team or mom or ex.

ROXANNA BENNETT (Straight) Ladies, the Smarter You Are the More Likely You Are To Die Alone, Says Yet Another Person 

see also: The Uncertainty Principle