Our discussion this month was focused on legibility: what it means for art to be 'comprehensible'/accessible & how to locate its resonances somewhere on the spectrum between clarity & obscurity.

The list

Misty Poetry: https://medium.com/@xliu0169/chinese-poetry-culture-misty-poetry-4a39cb9d0291‍

Nobody Mean More to Me Than You And The Future Life Of Willie Jordan: https://engl110ccny1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/content/june_jordan/‍

Asemic Writing: https://ceciltouchon.com/asemic-writing/‍

Short story: Ivy Day in the Committee Room by Eimear McBride: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/books-and-literature/fiction/46268/short-story-ivy-day-in-the-committee-room‍

BUSK by Aszure Barton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-oAbgi8pyE‍

...a ship crashes down... by Douglas Kearney: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/152478/-a-ship-crashes-down-‍

Inglan is a Bitch by Linton Kwesi Johnson: https://public.wsu.edu/~hegglund/courses/389/lkj_inglan_bitch.htm‍

Transnational Metamorphoses of African Orality: L.K. Johnson's Dub Poetry by Pierpaolo Martino: https://journals.openedition.org/africanistes/2492‍

Stendhal Syndrome by Idles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBdQZins_qM‍

Tender by Ariana Harwicz, translated by Annie McDermott & Carolina Orloff: https://granta.com/tender/