"When was it that you stopped using the word 'home'?" Yang Lian in Auckland

My post-conference (Short Takes on Long Poems) commentary is up at Jacket2, about the Chinese poet, Yang Lian's writing about Auckland.



You can find it here.

Jack Ross, whom I met in Auckland, is also blogging for Jacket2 now, and he has a commentary on the conference here.

And he blogged on "the world's longest beach poem" here, an event that ended the symposium in a major key.