In Memoriam: Leslie Scalapino

Leslie Scalapino died in late May this year.

We wanted to mark her passing simply, both her loss to friends that knew and spent time with her, and the brilliant scene of her writing, what it continues to mean to hear and encounter it.

There are few poets whose work is a full engagement with the times we live in, who punch language and its possibilities into contention, prise open the inside and outside of thought, action and the world.  Leslie Scalapino’s work does that and outruns it. Hers is a unique and original voice. Heard from the cobalt. Read more.

The pages of her official memorial written by her family can be read here.
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/scalapino/obit.html

If you’d like to contribute to a collection of responses to her work see the call for posts at delirious hem at http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/, deadline 1 August.

Photo by Carol Szymanski
with thanks to Barry Schwabsky