Jimmy McInnes's Blog: News & Updates
December 12, 2015
New poem "Furniture" published in Poetry is Dead Issue 12: Working Class
Poetry is Dead Issue twelve, "Working Class" edited by Mat Laporte and Jenny Sampirisi is 64 pages of poetry, essays, original art, photography and reviews.
http://poetryisdead.ca/magazine/worki...
http://poetryisdead.ca/magazine/worki...
July 30, 2015
BookThug Spring 2015 Launch Party: The Ultimate Video Playlist
http://bookthug.ca/bookthug-spring-20...
"Anchoring the first set of the evening, poet and self-described political hack Jimmy McInnes blew the roof off the place with an incendiary reading from his radical new long-poem, A More Perfect [. A reverse-rhetorical translation of Barack Obama’s iconic 2008 speech “A More Perfect Union,” A More Perfect [ celebrates and interrogates the calculatedly broad art of the political campaign speech."
"Anchoring the first set of the evening, poet and self-described political hack Jimmy McInnes blew the roof off the place with an incendiary reading from his radical new long-poem, A More Perfect [. A reverse-rhetorical translation of Barack Obama’s iconic 2008 speech “A More Perfect Union,” A More Perfect [ celebrates and interrogates the calculatedly broad art of the political campaign speech."
July 27, 2015
July 20, 2015
July 3, 2015
Pearl Pirie on A More Perfect [ as part of her 95books 2015 List
"45. A More Perfect [ by Jimmy McInnis (BookThug, 2015)
This was a riveting sort of read. He has taken the A More Perfect Union speech delivered by President Barack Obama on March 18, 2008 (which itself uses a phrase from the 1787 preamble to the constitution) to disassemble intent. What is the structural intent of each phrase? What if we take out the specifics of which country and which demographic? What is we point out that this is to tie that. It is hard to explain why this works so well. Watch a video of the reading."
-- Pearl Pirie
http://pagehalffull.com/pesbo/2015/07...
This was a riveting sort of read. He has taken the A More Perfect Union speech delivered by President Barack Obama on March 18, 2008 (which itself uses a phrase from the 1787 preamble to the constitution) to disassemble intent. What is the structural intent of each phrase? What if we take out the specifics of which country and which demographic? What is we point out that this is to tie that. It is hard to explain why this works so well. Watch a video of the reading."
-- Pearl Pirie
http://pagehalffull.com/pesbo/2015/07...
