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Reimagining the Poet-Critic
Feb 27, 2010 2:16pm
Reimagining the Poet-Critic: Practice, Pedagogy, Poetics A conference at University of California Santa Cruz, March 12-13, 2010. Two days of poetry and conversation.This conference invites participation in a series of dialogues about the role of the poet-scholar. As a practitioner of poetry or other "imaginative" writing and more theoretical or critical...
West Wind Review 2010 Coming Soon!
Feb 26, 2010 2:31pm
COMING SOON:WEST WIND REVIEW 2010Featuring Shane Allison, Brian Ang, Nathan Austin, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Daniel Bailey, Dave Barrett, Franklin Bruno, Marie Buck, Clint Burnham, Dereck Clemons, Jordan Davis, Nick Demske, Tiffany Denman, Brittany Dennison, Christopher DeWeese, Andrew Dieck, Brandon Downing, Cathy Eisenhower, Laura Elrick, Phil Estes, Michael Farrell, Angela Genusa, Judith...
Emergent Forms: Gregory Betts
Feb 21, 2010 4:58pm
EMERGENT FORMS: A 21st-CENTURY READING SERIESpresentsGREGORY BETTSAuthor of The Others Raisd in Me (Pedlar Press, 2009) and If Language (BookThug, 2005)WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 247pmBohemia Gallery552 "A" StreetAshland, OR 97520FREE$10 suggested donationsponsored by SOU's English & Writing program and West Wind Review...
Abraham Lincoln #5
Dec 8, 2009 8:15pm
ABRAHAM LINCOLNissue the fifthsummer/fall 200955 pp.Well, it's ABOUT TIME. Abraham Lincoln #5 comes screeching and hissing out of its dark crevice in the earth just in time for whatever festive, many-feathered seasonal ritual you strange gentle people celebrate. This issue is so tasty you'll want to LICK it....
The Front
Oct 9, 2009 2:50pm
Just out from Roof Books:K. Silem MohammadThe FrontOrder through SPD.The critics rave:"...scraping the bottom of the ... barrel ... write it off as a big joke ... we are ... repulsed ...." --Kenneth Goldsmith"...typical boring stuff ... can't appreciate The Front ... equate ... with rape...." --Katie Degentesh"...monkeys chained to...
Sandra Simonds, Used White Wife
Sep 21, 2009 2:26pm
Sandra Simonds' new chapbook Used White Wife available from Grey Book Press....
Keston Sutherland, "Happiness in Writing"
Aug 24, 2009 10:31am
World Picture 3 contains Keston Sutherland's "Happiness in Writing," a sharp and illuminating essay on Wordsworth's Prelude and Adorno's advice to writers in Minima Moralia....
The Longest Poem in the World
Aug 20, 2009 11:14pm
This program designed by Andrei Gheorghe is right up there with the most engaging and successful conceptual poetry projects I've seen to date.Brandon Brown has been talking about prosody on his blog, and this project raises some resonant questions for me in that context: first of all, is prosody a...
Nathan Austin in Sink Review
Aug 17, 2009 5:36pm
Nathan Austin picks up on a discussion I started here about competence and wit in this post at Sink Review....
K. Lorraine Graham, Terminal Humming
Jul 8, 2009 12:36am
K. Lorraine Graham, Terminal Humming (Edge Books, 2009).Edge Books has got to be breaking some kind of record for the greatest number of stunning new books of poetry released within a year's time, what with recent titles by Kevin Davies, Cathy Eisenhower, Mel Nichols, Chris Nealon, and now K. Lorraine...
David Buuck, The Shunt
Jul 5, 2009 8:16pm
David Buuck, The Shunt (Palm Press, 2009).Stuttering, hemming, hawing, failing, flailing, and flopping, the comedian tries to coerce the narrative ideology of wartime into a punch line, but the punch is always awready pre-packed by Big Brother's Big Other. As Beckett almost observed, nothing is funnier (or sadder, depending...
Benjamin Friedlander on Rachel Loden and Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
Jul 4, 2009 9:58am
Ben Friedlander discusses Rachel Loden's new book from Ahsahta, Dick of the Dead, beginning with this post at his recently launched American Poetry in the Age of Whitman and Dickinson blog.Loden's book can be ordered here....
Craig Dworkin, Parse
Jul 3, 2009 11:55am
Craig Dworkin's Parse (Atelos, 2008).From the note at the back of the book:Parse is a translation of Edwin A. Abbott's How To Parse: An Attempt to Apply the Principles of Scholarship to English Grammar. First published in 1874, the book played a leading role in the pedagogic debate over whether...
Wag's Revue 2
Jun 26, 2009 1:58pm
Wag's Revue 2 is now online. It features four of my Sonnagrams, as well as pieces by Kenneth Goldsmith, Gregory Betts, Matthias Svalinas, and others....
Slow and Slower
Jun 19, 2009 1:34pm
Special issue of Big Bridge dedicated to "Slow Poetry" (it's like poetry, only slow).And then there's Even Slower Poetry....
Can Flarf Be Taken? Seriously?
Jun 17, 2009 3:39pm
"Can Flarf Ever Be Taken Seriously?": an article by Shell Fischer in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers....
Poetry Magazine July/August 2009
Jun 15, 2009 4:47pm
OK, not quite. But this issue really does feature Jordan Davis, Mel Nichols, Sharon Mesmer, myself, Nada Gordon, Drew Gardner, Gary Sullivan, Caroline Bergvall, Christian Bök, Robert Fitterman, Kenneth Goldsmith, Craig Dworkin, and Vanessa Place in a special Flarf & Conceptual Writing section edited by Goldsmith.Here's the real cover:...
David Bromige 1933-2009
Jun 3, 2009 2:45pm
Just heard that David Bromige passed away this morning. He was a wonderful poet and a lovely person....
West Wind Review 2009 Available Now!
May 27, 2009 5:54pm
West Wind Review 2009AVAILABLE NOW!edited by Lacey HunterfeaturingDavid Watson, Mel Nichols, Rod Smith, Catherine Meng, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Eddie Watkins, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Elisabeth Workman, Kathleen Rooney & Elisa Gabbert, Drew Gardner, Andrew Felsinger, Carol Guess, Jen Hofer, Brandon Brown, Stan Apps, Shane Allison, Nico Vassilakis, Noah Eli Gordon, Joshua Marie Wilkinson,...
WNYC's Talk to Me: Flarf vs. Conceptual Writing at the Whitney
May 13, 2009 3:30pm
A recording of the Flarf vs. Conceptual Writing event last month at the Whitney Museum of American Art (with introductory comments by Kenny Goldsmith and brief interviews at the end by Pejk Malinovski) on WNYC's Talk to Me lecture series....
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