The Virtual World (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Winner: Keith Waldrop, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press) Finalists: Rae Armantrout, Versed (Wesleyan University Press) Ann Lauterbach, Or to Begin Again (Penguin Books)Carl Phillips, Speak Low (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Open Interval (University of Pittsburgh Press) POETRY JUDGES: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, A. Van Jordan, Cole Swensen,...
Denise Low, former Kansas Poet Laureate (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
For more information about the new NBA winner and sample poems, see the National Book Foundation site: http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2009_p_waldrop.html Judges were Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, A. Van Jordan, Cole Swensen, and Kevin Young Keith Waldrop, Brooke Russell Astor Professor of Humanities at Brown University, has published more than a dozen works each of original poetry and translations....
Culture Industry (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... Postmodern American Poetry ; Eliot Weinberger's American Poetry Since 1950 ; and the recent Cole Swensen-David St. John American Hybrid – along with, of course, the usual range of xeroxes, PDFs, & internet resources. Here's the logic: I want to teach the course with an emphasis, not on a half-dozen or dozen or 20 "major" figures, but on group-formations, "schools,"...
A Compulsive Reader (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... Zawacki:: Petals of Zero Petals of One ( discussed here ) Keith Waldrop:: Transcendental Studies Cole Swensen:: Ours ( reviewed here ) Ron Silliman:: The Alphabet (selections) Jack Spicer:: My Vocabulary Did This To Me (selections) Lyn Hejinian:: Saga/Circus ( reviewed here ) Barbara Guest:: The Collected Poems (selections) Roberto Bolaño:: 2666 Tough to argue against setting aside...
Matt Bell (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... Elizabeth Rollins, D.E. Steward, and Paul West, while the rest of the magazine includes writing by Cole Swensen, Nathaniel Mackey, Tim Horvath, Martin Bellen, Ann Lauterback, Robert Coover, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, and Can Xue. Here's an excerpt from the beginning of my "His Last Great Gift": Spear has already been living in the cabin overlooking High Rock for two weeks when...
World Class Poetry Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... late Reginald Shepherd might have called it a lyric postmodernism , though I don’t like that term. Cole Swensen would likely refer to it as a “hybrid” poem, a term I like even less. I don’t think it matters what you call it as long as you recognize its innovations, which, in the proper frame of mind, are not really innovations but elements brought forward from the past. The innovation...
Culture Industry (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... work on a longish essay on of all things gardening poetics: LZ, Ronald Johnson, Cole Swensen, Ian Hamilton Finlay. Great fun, tho harder work than anything I've tackled in some time. This one is by no means put to bed, since I'm sure there'll be at least a couple rounds of revisions, but at least it's drafted & sent off to the editor. •We adopted a kitten. Not exactly adopted...
Third Factory/Notes to Poetry (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... Viktor Shklovsky | ZOO or Lettersd Not about Love | Dalkey Archive | 2001 Caroline Dubois, trans. Cole Swensen | Caroline Dubois: You Are the Business | Burning Deck | 2008 More Sawako Nakayasu here .
secondary sound (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
the ie Reader (available in a few weeks) PREORDER HERE . Elena Alexander, Bruce Andrews, Michael Ball, Sandra Beasley, Lauren Bender, Bill Berkson, Charles Bernstein, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Miles Champion, Norma Cole, CA Conrad, Bruce Covey, Tina Darragh, Ben Doller, Sandra Doller, Buck Downs, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, kari edwards, Cathy Eisenhower, Graham Foust, Heather Fuller, Peter Gizzi, Adam...
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
... Studies: A Trilogy (UC Press) Thanks to judges Mei-mei Berssenbrugge , A. Van Jordan , Cole Swensen , & Kevin Young for accomplishing the seemingly impossible: nominating 5 excellent books ¹ This would be true also if this were the list for the Pulitzer, the National Book Critics’ Circle or just about any other US-based prize
OlsonNow (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
A PANEL, READING, & EXHIBITION CHARLES OLSON: LANGUAGE AS PHYSICAL FACT Tenney Nathanson Cole Swensen Steve McCaffery Barbara Henning Anne Waldman A CHAPBOOK Nothing is in Here, by Andrew Levy READINGS/ARTICLES An Interview with Kevin Killian, by Tony Leuzzi TEXT FOR A CUL-DE-SAC, by Wystan Curnow & Lawrence Weiner The Functional Art of Bruce Nauman, by Jessica Hullman A Topological...
Pearlblossom Highway (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
A PANEL, READING, & EXHIBITION CHARLES OLSON: LANGUAGE AS PHYSICAL FACT Tenney Nathanson Cole Swensen Steve McCaffery Barbara Henning Anne Waldman A CHAPBOOK Nothing is in Here, by Andrew Levy READINGS/ARTICLES An Interview with Kevin Killian, by Tony Leuzzi TEXT FOR A CUL-DE-SAC, by Wystan Curnow & Lawrence Weiner The Functional Art of Bruce Nauman, by Jessica Hullman A Topological...
amy king's alias (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
VISIT EOAGH NOW! A PANEL, READING, & EXHIBITION CHARLES OLSON: LANGUAGE AS PHYSICAL FACT Tenney Nathanson Cole Swensen Steve McCaffery Barbara Henning Anne Waldman A CHAPBOOK Nothing is in Here, by Andrew Levy READINGS/ARTICLES An Interview with Kevin Killian, by Tony Leuzzi TEXT FOR A CUL-DE-SAC, by Wystan Curnow & Lawrence Weiner The Functional Art of Bruce Nauman, by Jessica...
