Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Rae Armantrout’s poetry Entertainment Weekly on the National Book Award § Eileen Myles talks with CA Conrad § Rachel Zolf : the MFA as an institution within larger state apparatuses Tendencies begins Oct. 29 @ CUNY with Zolf, Robert Glück & Trish Salah § Paul Vangelisti talks with Mary de Rachelwiltz § Federal Trade Commission identifies a threat: book bloggers §...
New Jersey Poets and Poetry (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Eric Hoffman, Burt Kimmelman, and Madeline Tiger Poetry Reading at Watchung Booksellers Thursday, October 29th, 7:30 Watchung Booksellers 54 Fairfield St Montclair, NJ 07042 (973) 744-7177 http://www.watchungbooksellers.com/ Directions: http://www.watchungbooksellers.com/directions Free Admission Eric Hoffman is the author of five collections of poetry, the most recent is Life At Braintree (Dos Madres...
BOTH BOTH (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
1. The Wasteland And Other Poems- T.S. Eliot 2. Night Palace- ed. Micah Ballard/ Julian Porier 3. George Oppen A Radical Practice- Susan Thackery 4. Easy Eden- Micah Ballard/ Patrick James Dunagan 5. Forms Of Heaven- Clive Barker 6. Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron- Daniel Clowes 7. Congregations- David Highsmith 8. Disposable A History Of Skateboard Art- Sean Cliver 9. The New American Poetry 1945-1960-...
X Poetics (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Just borrowed from the library a copy of The Selected Letters of George Oppen, edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and randomly opened upon this: "I should imagine that in any really terrible economic emergency we would pretty much start where the New Deal left off--managers, administrators, social workers, engineers being called to Washington--even drafted--something like a war emergency. Disregard...
Nothing to Say & Saying It (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Well, I’ve not made it very far at all into my pile of books, and yikes, in comes another huge batch. Here’s the second batch below. One more batch, I think, to go, and then I’m going to go back to not having any money for books for a long, long time. For this one moment in time, though, I can pretend to be well-read. As you can see, I’m trying to plug some holes that go back...
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
I’ve always suspected that Devin Johnston must be one of those poets whom readers either love or hate. He has a very distinct personality & is quite clear about his goals in writing. Either you buy it or you don’t. Somehow, though, I always find myself in the middle, never fully certain just how much I love his work or feel frustrated by it. This I think might be because you can read...
Squandermania and other foibles (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Conflict - Battle - Bottle. Pissing in a Bottle. Kissing in a bottle, in a B. Botom (Bum) Rum (this made me laught) Pirates. 15 on d. man's chest. From Rumm to Bokhara one monarch the calif. Tried to write Bokk. Boc. A drink. We keep getting to drinks. Rum and milk. Milk bottle. Milk battle. Rattle. A conflict over milk silk. Sick. I evidently was in trouble before the age of six, for already at that...
New Jersey Poets and Poetry (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Poets Forum in New York City, October 15-17, 2009. Last Week to Buy Discounted All-Events Passes Purchase All-Events Passes at www.poets.org/poetsforum Ticket Information: All-Events Pass: $85 before Sept 15 / $110 after Saturday-Only Tickets: $60 Tickets: Purchase online at poets.org/poetsforum or by phone, (212) 274-0343, ext.10. Students Rates: Tickets and information available by phone. Full Schedule...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
... Lost Oppen Letter & New Oppen Essay .
thomas devaney (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Two new items have been added George Oppen feature I edited for Jacket (36) . One is a lost Oppen letter that was found and has been added to Pat Clifford's essay "George Oppen, Buddhadev Bose and Translation." The other item is a new essay by Joy Katz "Writing, and Something Other Than Writing: George Oppen’s Silence." Pat Clifford writes: Buddhadev Bose’s daughter,...
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
Yiddish modernist Celia Dropkin Talking with Yerra Sugarman about Dropkin § Talking with Michael Palmer § Marie Buck’s “The Beheading Game” § A profile of Rodrigo Toscano § John Thompson & the Canadian ghazal § Mónica de la Torre reading de la Torre talking with Charles Bernstein § M. NourbeSe Philip’s “Zong 26” § Ray...
Five Branch Tree (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
From a 2004 keynote speech provided by Michael Palmer at the 3rd Annual Sustainable Living Conference at Evergreen State College: ....everything I do seems a form of collaboration, across time, with the voices of poets and others that pass through me as I work. Suffice to say that another, an other, becomes present in a way that is both like and unlike the dialogic work of the poem. My ideal of pure...
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