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Riantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoetry as a Form of Resistance: Xi Chuan's Don't Deprive Me of My ComplexityYou can purchase "Bloom," by Xi Chuan tr. by Lucas Klein here.Chuan is a pivotal figure in Chinese poetic and literary community. Outspoken regarding political needs and with both a reverence and disgust for literature, “Bloom” is full with poems that seem to simultaneously mock high-brow efforts of pseudo-reality in language, as well as contend with the need to address that a writer necessitates complicated inner mechanisms. “Bloom,” has a wide range of poetry both tender and declarative, at times feeling as though you’re reading someone yelling at you to pull your head out of you...
2025-06-1907 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsEcopoetics in Action: Ariana Benson's Love Poem in a Black FieldYou can purchase "Black Pastoral," by Ariana Benson here. One of those older contemporary books at this point. In that odd three years old period where some will have forgotten about it in the quieting of its hype, and others eagerly await the next from Benson. Having only recently read through it, time passing from its popularity, I have to insist: it is not a mistake to read this work, to sit deeply and longingly with the poems. They are visceral and evocative, full with the weight of a downpour after a long drought. Benson’s...
2025-06-1207 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsForms and Features of Poetry: Jess Yuan's Craft Talk on PainYou may purchase "Slow Render," by Jess Yuan here. A book that I think gladly speaks in conversation with other works operating around the metaphysical concept of the photograph like Barthes, Sontag; Yuan’s “Slow Render,” operates on both a scale of the poem as a capture, as well as the capture as a form that can be manipulated or whose boundaries can be flexibly defined. Riantly, or with Laughter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Loved this intell...
2025-06-0506 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsGreek and Bulgarian Poetry: Iana Boukova's Unwelt
2025-05-2908 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoetry Read Aloud: Gwen Nell Westerman's Billboard WarningYou can purchase "Songs Blood Deep," by Gwen Nell Westerman here. I loved Gwen Nell Westerman’s work, and thought the steadfast observational powers on display were the work of a poet truly interested in engaging with what is in front of her. Riantly, or with Laughter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.I appreciate her Q+A here as well: On the importance of writing in both the English and Dakota languages:“Dakota is t...
2025-05-2204 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsA Poetry of Everyday Life: Rick Barot's Moving the BonesYou can purchase Rick Barot's book "Moving the Bones," here.I love this line from Mikal Wix on Barot’s work: “But Barot’s candid poems from Moving the Bones create an intangible space where words can exalt feelings of longing or loss without losing their power to stabilize us in the understatement of rational, epiphanic thought.”Riantly, or with Laughter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Barot has always had this gentle way of pressing readers toward the epip...
2025-05-1507 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsThe Elements of Poetry: A Lyric Essay-PoemYou can find a copy of Commons by Myung Mi Kim here.Part of the necessity of translated literature, translated poetry, is the decentralization of “English,” as an omnipresence and easily-definable language. “English,” is, for lack of a better term, limp and fungible - defined through its constant re-interpretation by those who come to the language secondarily. This poem or this essay comes on the back of Trump administration cutting National Endowment for the Arts funding for all presses and publications supporting translated literature as their missions in favor for supporting the creative empowerment of AI techn...
2025-05-0810 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoetry Reading: "Brute?" and "Strike [air]" by Hala AlyanYou can purchase The Moon That Turns You Back by Hala Alyan from Ecco Books here. Alyan’s work is a foray of contemporariness and of navigating. Many of the poems offer more formal explorations of what needs be conveyed — with a series of poems in the form of six columns responding to lines adjusted by a unique subject, or more traditional formal modes like the repetition explored in “Strike [Air].” But what’s at stake here is the truth of the matter: that this world we suffer in is ridiculous and nonsensical in its cruelties. That violence s...
2025-04-2409 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoem Reading: "the meaning of winter changes" by Serhiy ZhadanYou can purchase How Fire Descends by Serhiy Zhadan tr. by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps here.These poems within How Fire Descends are at once spiritual, pleading, stark, and hopeful. They speak of literature and the state and purpose of poems alongside family alongside survival. Zhadan is a tremendous poet, and I believe the reality he manages to versify is both vitally necessary and one full with the signs and images of suffering that Ukraine has endured for so many years. I offer this additional writing summarily, as I found the review wonderful. From...
2025-04-1707 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoem Reading: "11.6.12" by Friederike MayröckerYou can purchase Ă©tudes by Friederike Mayröcker tr. by Donna Stonecipher here.I love an author who doesn’t care much for genre definitions. Everything I’ve read from Friederike Mayröcker seems to exude exactly this coolness - it doesn’t much matter if it’s a poem, a diary, prosody, or anything. Here, I offer a reading of this piece that seems to do it all — diary, poem, prose, what have you. I loved reading through this work. It took me ages. Like trying to eat gelato on a frosty winter morning. My tongue kept tripping...
2025-04-1007 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoem Reading: "Escapade (33)" by Marie-Noëlle Agniau translated by Jesse Hover AmarIf you wish to purchase The Escapades you may find it here. Agniau’s work here is such a treasure of connectivity. The pages tell something of a story together, and yet poem-by-poem I feel something more like the shifting of seasons — the hints toward a change, and then all at once a difference. An immense strength is her commitment to writing toward, speaking toward, this ‘you.’ I find it incredibly hard to write a convincing poem to a second-person without alienating the reader in some way, and yet all of Agniau’s Escapades manage to bring me closer...
2025-04-0305 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoem Reading: "On the Margin" by Mostafa NissabouriYou may purchase For an Ineffable Metrics of the Desert here. Translated by Guy Bennett, Pierre Joris, Addie Leak, and Teresa Villa-Ignacio and published by Otis Books - Seismicity Editions.Mostafa Nissabouri seems to be a mountain of literary culture, uplifting and providing support for his fellow writers through journal creation and the establishment of a home for superb writing. This collection, For an Ineffable Metrics of the Desert, is a profound experience. Hundreds of pages of poems that meditate toward one’s responsibility toward art, toward creation, toward the human psyche when also contending with destruction, ba...
2025-03-2808 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoem Reading: "2:1" by Asiya WadudFrom the work Crosslight for Youngbird from Nightboat BooksAsiya Wadud’s work is at once mystifying and thrilling. I could very well believe performative recitations of her lyric in the forms of borderline surreal mutterings, to the proud proclamatory verse with bravado. Here, I read just one of the many poems of hers I love and try to explain a bit as to why I love this poem, why I find it works. Within each work of Wadud’s that I’ve read, I have found collections of reference and incantation, labyrinth and wayfinding, grief...
2025-03-2105 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoem Reading: "The Capacity for Happiness Despite Visual Evidence is Great" by Nathalie KhankanAn in accompaniment, here is Hilary Plum’s review in the Cleveland Review of Books (I admit, a favorite of mine): Seeking fertility treatment, the self is in a state of profound need and transformative possibility, of desperation and choice, privileged to be subjected to medical regimes, precarious and generative. In this state, the poet attends to and appreciates “little justices” and forms of “tiny goodness”: the goodness and justice of her child’s birth, of poetry as testament to everyday life, “a little justice: this chirpy printed sound when i leave the library with kifah | every day a tiny goo...
2025-03-1306 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoem Reading: "Autobiography Via Revision" by Marianne ChanAnd as an accompaniment, this interview from Barely South Review between Jerome Newsome and the author Marianne Chan: Poetry has a lot of forms. Sonnets. Haikus. Odes. How do you incorporate or use form in your poems?Yeah. So, form for me, is extremely generative. I often begin with form as a way to enter a poem. And sometimes I have an idea in mind. For example, in my second collection, Leaving Biddle City, I have several, prose pantoums. So, the collection is made up of those prose poems, these blocks of text rather than...
2025-03-0905 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoem Reading: "The Words I Return To" by Magda IsanosAnd I loved this accompaniment by critic Leo Zausen on Magda Isanos’ Homecoming: Life for Isanos is less a vessel but a burden, a preordained fallout at the incursion of the species. Isanos’ romanticism sediments a dwindling of the human side of any encounter by foregrounding the negative manifestation of something subliminal, abyssal, and subterranean in its wake. Not unlike phosphorus—or the cousin of sulfur who is all too at home in hell—an overexposed and exhausted essence streams through these pages, mapping a warped lithospheric geology. Phosphorescent romanticism is a fleeting and ambient style, a maligned...
2025-03-0704 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoem Reading: "Cryptic News from Darmogandul" by Afrizal MalnaAnd alongside this wonderful book and poem are these lines from a 2024 interview with author Afrizal Malna from Asymptote Journal: These events gave rise to an obsession, or an agitation: “Can language shake? Can meaning convulse?” It was a new challenge for the practice of writing poetry. 

 For me, the structure of the poem and the way the words are placed resemble an earthquake with its propensity to convulse, which perhaps can shake up the balance in reading. Jakarta is positioned as a city of politics and economics, in accordance with its status as the capital...
2025-03-0405 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoem Reading: "Dithyrams" by Elsa CrossI think of this interview by translator, Anamaría Crowe Serrano, in Numero Cinco, speaking on Cross’s poetics: What struck me about Elsa during our conversation in London was that her poetry reflected her personality: gentle, contemplative, self-assured. It seemed that the mysteries and uncertainties inherent in the world around us, which philosophy constantly probes, rather than cause angst, in some paradoxical way provide a source of strength for this poet. I got a sense that she accepts that not everything can be known, and there’s comfort in that place of acceptance. The idea of immer...
2025-02-2712 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoem Reading: "Red Rose and a Beggar" by H.D.In my experience and relation with H.D. - one either encounters her work in an academic setting, or rarely at all. What a shame! Perhaps in another time, one that I was less coherent for, H.D. was subject of more public and social discussion, attention. But as it stands, I do wish for you to enjoy some of her work. Here, you may find my recitation of a portion of one of her poems from the collection Hermetic Definition. As always, if you have any interest, questions, or comments, please leave a note...
2024-12-0607 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoem Reading: "Late Gathering" by Chika SagawaI remember the experience of reading this book. It was Springtime in Seattle, maybe three years ago. I would read it exclusively on walks outside, roaming around the residential streets and lavishing in the late afternoon sunlight. I think it added to the experience of poems like what I’ve read here, “Late Gathering,” which are such social documentations at their core and yet reach for that flicker of spirit that unites us all through our desire for connection. Sagawa and Nakayasu do such an excellent job at narrating concision — it’s oftentimes a tricky task, in translatio...
2024-10-2705 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoem Reading: "The Engine of Eternity that Surrounds Me," by Tseveendorjin OidovWorking as a literary critic, oftentimes I find myself overly heady about trying to understand the poetics of something. The scholarly connections or the poetic lineage, naming the aesthetic within some canonical tradition or defining the metrical forms to understand sonic quality. In reality, sometimes you like a poem because the words just seem to click when you read them. This poem begins, “Desire is a planet, / and I am contained by longing,” which is such a lovely declaration that I uttered it aloud. So, I share with you. What planet is your desire?
2024-10-2306 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoem Reading: "That year, that icy blackness" by Lyn LifshinListen to my ice-thin argument that shipwrecking is a metaphor intrinsic to the Northeast United States. Or perhaps an aesthetic? Lyn Lifshin has so many freaking poems published that if you enjoy this poem, you’d be a fool not to go and try to find as many as you can. She’s an incredible talent, and such a rare gem of prolificness. The blending of sex and environment is such an evocative move for poetry. You can purchase this book, Before It’s Light, here. Thanks for readin...
2024-10-2006 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoem Reading: "Beetle" by Julia FiedorczukSomething I admire greatly about the field of ecopoetry is that it contains such climactic depth to it. I think of far-ranging examples like Juliana Spahr’s oeuvre, Camille Dungy, or even considering Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem — these examples aren’t too exclude, either. I know there’s a tremendous amount of argument and scholarship toward ecopoetry’s definition and the inclusion of writings in the ecopoetic canon. That all said, I think it does good to remind oneself that ecopoetry can come at the microscale too. That one can be inspired by something as small as a beetle...
2024-10-1704 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry Readings"Notes for a Novel Never Written," by Bhanu KapilBhanu Kapil is a hugely important author working today. Her writing is inventive and invokes a now to often critical historic moments of violence or trauma. This poem is one of many from Kapil that are startling in the examination provided. The cross-temporal boundary examination of historical affect on those living through this moment, its racial violences, and the grief littered throughout. Ban en Banlieue is one of my favorite works for this hybridizing reason. It accomplishes so much in such little space. To quote Lindsay King-Miller from her review in Muzzle Magazine, “Ba...
2024-09-0509 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry Readings"Mansur" by Adeeba Shahid TalukderThere are many unfair and unjust things about COVID that have settled into unfortunate shadows on the world. One of which are all of the excellent authors whose works perhaps did not get as much attention or momentum behind them as I feel they ought have for the quality of their poetry. Adeeba Shahid Talukder’s Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved out of Tupelo Press is one such collection. Talukder’s poetry is rare, blending grief with yearning and expansiveness in a way that heralds respect and approachability. If you enjoyed this poem...
2024-09-0104 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsKrystyna Dąbrowska's Sleepless Poem tr. by Antonia Lloyd-JonesKrystyna Dąbrowska's Tideline is a magnificent collection published recently by Zephyr Press. What I love about these poems is Dąbrowska and translators Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Mira Rosenthal, and Karen Kovacik attention to what must be uttered between words. The spaces offered in these poems tease reality in a surprising way and allowed me as a reader to really join in imaginative hunt for meaning. Thanks for reading Riantly, or with Laughter! This post is public so feel free to share it.So much attention is paid into the so what th...
2024-08-2506 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsMaría Baranda - To HellThis reading and discussion of Baranda’s poem “To Hell,” also offers my thoughts around longer poems, my attempts at deciphering the ways in which to engage a longer poem, and what type of poem this is. Thanks for reading Riantly, or with Laughter! This post is public so feel free to share it.Below you can view an excerpt of “To Hell” translated by Paul Hoover. And here you can purchase a copy of Baranda’s book. Or, as always, request a copy from your local library.Riantly, or...
2024-08-2209 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry Readings20 Years of My Life by Mirta RosenbergThere is, simply, no end to darling translations of exceptional poetry. It is, in fact, much more difficult to select a single poem for any of these works to read. Sometimes it’s a random selection, sometimes the gut leads me to a particular page, and sometimes I cheat by having a favorite poem already annotated. Thank you for reading Riantly, or with Laughter. This post is public so feel free to share it.The book Interior Landscape is written by Mirta Rosenberg, and translated by Yaki Setton and Sergio Waisman. You can pu...
2024-08-0603 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsBaalbeck, I. by Etel Adnan, from TimeEtel Adnan is such a vital force of my literary and moral education. So fierce and creative, unflinching and funny at times, she detailed life in all of its colors. This poem is part of a longer series titled ‘Baalbeck’ out of her book Time translated by Sarah Riggs and published by Nightboat books. I hope I’ve done this poem some type of justice in its reading, and if any of you had not known Etel Adnan before this, please find something of hers to read. I can make many recommendations. Thank...
2024-08-0402 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsXXXII by Hilda Hilst from Of Death, Minimal Odes. tr. Laura Cesarco EglinUnfortunately passing away in 2004, Hilst was a force of Brazilian literature. This book is a masterpiece, and I think one that any person interested in life, living, death, and dying, should consider reading once or maybe five times. If you are interested in the work, please know you can buy it from CO*IM*PRESS here. Riantly, or with Laughter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riantly, or with...
2024-08-0202 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsThe wound of being by Rebecca SeiferleYou can find Seiferle’s work here through one of her publishers or ordered through your local bookstore.Thank you for reading Riantly, or with Laughter. This post is public so feel free to share it.I would recommend, if you were to start reading her, to either start with this work or with Bitters. Poetry is an illumination of truth. Some truths are hard; others are uplifting. I also feel that illumination of a truth, even a difficult one, brings increased awareness. The scales fall from our eyes, and we si...
2024-07-2203 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsIf anyone is to ask, by Genevieve KaplanThe stunning work of “Aviary,” is that the poems resist a conclusive logic in much the same way as you would imagine birds do. After all, if birds aren’t real then how can they follow reality? This poem I think toes the line between having a concrete line it wants the reader to acknowledge, to know, and teasing us along this line until we end at the final lyrics of the poem, “how often you may visit the future, if invited, already, to fill those gaps.” These jettison me from a comfortable landing, and instead, immediately, ask me: wh...
2024-07-1502 minRiantly - Poetry Readings
Riantly - Poetry ReadingsPoetry Reading: Okay at the balcony, Lee Sumyeong tr. Colin Leemarshall“I face toward the unknown and adamantly reel.” Was such a provocative line that I found myself thinking of it over and over days after reading it. Wanted to share this poem with you, my love. Get full access to Riantly, or with Laughter at riantly.substack.com/subscribe
2024-07-0701 min