Welcome to OPR: The Organism for Poetic Research
This critical-poetic creature generates readings, seminars, installations, books, digital residency projects, and Pelt, a sporadically published (print + digital) magazine
Upcoming Event
OPR PRESENTS: A Poetry Reading with Desiree C. Bailey and Katherine Agyemaa Agard [Postponed: Fall 2021]
In advance of the reading, the OPR will be hosting an informal reading group discussion of Desiree C. Bailey’s What Noise Against The Cane (Yale UP) and Katherine Agyemaa Agard’s of colour (Essay Press).
Please RSVP to eg [dot] asher [at] nyu.edu for the Zoom link for the reading group discussion and/or the Reading!
Latest OPR Edition
We are so excited to share Jamie Staples’ dazzling review of Moina Pam Dick’s Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart now up at The Chicago Review online. As Staples writes:
Pivoting between “reason” and “unreason,” the poem invites the reader to follow Moira/Moina Jones, an extension of the (fictional) authorial voice, as she slips along the edge of unknowing… Rather than collapsing these identities, Dick revels in the transitional space, the “edge” or “verge” that allows the identity of “harlot-saint” to be one not of a before-and-after, but of simultaneity: a whorish sanctity that is at once a sanctified whorishness.
And in case you hadn’t heard: Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart was also named a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry! Congratulations, Moina Pam Dick!
Purchase a copy of the book here!
Featured Residency
We are description. We believe in a science that we can’t prove. We pray we don’t subduct. We practice ways past this, and poetry. It is our opinion that shorelines extend when examined with contracting units of measurement. We believe this because it has been true so far. We look, we look and slow time, long-time, comes up to the surface, tides its way through an inscape of molecules…
Explore a way past: the latest OPR web residency by Maya Björnson and Liam Carpenter-Urquhart
