pantaloons: (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
As the zeitgeist has it, Kent Johnson is our on-again-off-again least-favored-by-the masses schlock detector. Exhibit over at digital emunction , Kent points to flarf, points a few times. He draws tangential lines of argument about a group (flarf is both a jelly mold and a gang, right') of oozers of youth and cred beyond their years that, together, youth and cred, sell me they...
illuminated meat (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Kenny Goldsmith ? Kent Johnson ? Monday night at Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC--a signed copy of Day by Kenneth Goldsmith : in this photo: Kenny Goldsmith and Rod Smith
Seven Corners (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
This event begins @ 9:30 pm.
jellybean weirdo with electric snake fang (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
"THE TOTAL SPEECH ACT IN THE TOTAL SPEECH SITUATION" "THE POETIC BLOG ROLLS" "THE OPENING OF THE ACADEMY" "FLARF AND FLARFISTES" "THE TOY SKELETON PUT ON TRIAL BY LANGPO" or "MUTELY JELLINI MOVES THROUGH THE ANCIENT WRECKAGE OF ALL MUSICA" or "KENT JOHNSON, FLARF, CONCEPTUALISM BECOME A CONJOINED TWINE" "THE 'TRUE...
ONE (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
We were pleased to be joined by Rosine Urujeni, an exchange student from Rwanda currently studying at Viterbo University. Hearing her unique perspective and how important United States aid is to her country simply underlined the importance of our meeting. Rev. Kent Johnson of the Lutheran Office for Justice and Peace in La Crosse brought Rosine, knowing her first-hand knowledge of the...
Exoskeleton (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
I just re-read John Barth's "The Literature of Exhaustion," and found this peculiar passage about Borges, "Day" by Kent Johnson and Kenny Goldsmith, and, most interestingly from my perspective, translation (the article was originally published in Atlantic in 1967): "... Now, this is an interesting idea, of considerable intellectual validity. I mentioned earlier...
Squandermania and other foibles (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Kent Johnson said this over on Digital Emunction the other day: "Cultural forces are to large extent impersonal in their ideological operations, in any case, the choices and ambitions of actors in the field more like indexes or effects of the flows and contradictions of those forces than anything else, much as it feels...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Investigators said Kent Johnson, 53, was chatting about sex online with an undercover officer while posing as a 13-year-old boy.
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... § Objections to Google book scans from the Chinese Writers Association § Talking with Kent Johnson § How Ashbery writes “ The Winemakers ” § Penn Kemp’s ear § Poetry is better for your brain than prose (duh!) § Talking with Justin Marks A less rumpled version of Justin at the Tusculum Review § A trick question for Raymond Carver...
Third Factory/Notes to Poetry (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... world, the connectedness is a foil, a spark-spitting short in the circuitry, sign of dystopia. Kent Johnson | Homage to the Last Avant-Garde | Shearsman | 2008 Is Kent Johnson a nervous Nellie, or what? I think he positively thrives on yatter and scorch, that version of the lyrical big itch that accounts for Art and Trouble (two manifestations of one compulsion) amongst...
georgiasam (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
... conspiracies, messianism, contrived suffering, programmatic self-exclusion, etc’ he found in Kent Johnson’s characterisation of recent British poetry recently over on Digital Emunction (‘If anyone’s obnubilated in incense and ectoplasm it’s people like Fiona Sampson, the editor of the once again wretchedly conservative and dull Poetry Review ’)....
