May 2012
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Jennifer Scappettone wins 2012 Raiziss/de Palchi...
“New York, May 23—The Academy of American Poets announced today thatJennifer Scappettone has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize for her translations of Amelia Rosselli inLocomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli (University of Chicago Press, 2012). This $10,000 award is given every other year for the translation into English of a...
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E-Poetry Reading & Exhibit: Counterpath
Poet Aaron Angello with help from collaborator Erin Costello brings us this excellent event in Denver. For more info, visit http://www.springgunpress.com/epoetry-event
E-Poetry: The Past, Present and Future of Electronic Poetry is an electronic literature reading/performance and exhibit that will feature the work of a number of prominent poets working in the field of electronic literature.
May...
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Will Alexander "The Blood Penguin"
The City Lights Blog put this up a month ago, but I just found it.
“I am the carnivore the hounded night walker searching for my wings scattered under glass
they claim I should return to monomial transfixing to exhibit A & no further
to some I am six foot & lizard
to others I am considered a mange lamb returned from the tropics”
[the whole poem]
Shane McCrae Interview at Puerto Del Sol
“…Now, of course, it’s impossible to have an absolutely individual voice anyway, but I think it’s worthwhile to do as much as you can to make yourself sound like yourself, and it’s a mistake to think that’s likely to be accomplished by simply opening your mouth and talking—when you do that, you reproduce what you hear and what everybody else hears. Reading books can help you to...
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“Barbara was a threatening figure because of...
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Triple Canopy Issue 16--some of it
Triple Canopy is gradually releasing pieces from its new issue over the next few weeks. “They Were Us” “includes a wide range of writing and artist projects, including Erica Baum’s piano-player poetry, David Levine and Alix Rule’s essay on the tyranny of the art-world press release, Joshua Cohen’s novella “McDonald’s,” an excerpt of Ariana...
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Circumference: Poetry in Translation
After a long hiatus, Circumference is back with a new website, editorial staff, and an inaugural podcast!
“In this episode Mónica de la Torre discusses her path to translation, how translations are packaged, how translation has influenced her writing process, the mix of high and low-brow culture in her work, her refusal to give in to domestic expectations of global culture, and how her...
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New Issue of Phoebe
Julia Cohen: You’ll See My Design Inside a Lemon Adam Day: Driving Home Through Virginia Josh Fomon: Swampmeat Emily Kendal-Frey: from SORROW ARROW Joshua Kryah: Annunciation …..The Children’s Crusade Joyelle McSweeney: from Glock Chorus John A. Nieves: Altitude Sickness, …..Daydreamt kathryn l. pringle: [obscenity for the advancement of poetry #6] …..[obscenity for the advancement of poetry...
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New Big Bridge Issue
It’s the 15th Anniversary issue and there are very many things to read:
Andrei Codrescu
excerpt from the Philip Whalen Journals
30 Poets in a feature dedicated to Akilah Oliver, including Jim Harrison, Alice Notley, Patricia Spears Jones, Jennifer K. Dick, Steve Dalachinsky and more
Feature on Neo-Surrealism with work by Eric Baus, Will Alexander, Sandra Simonds, Andrew Joron,...
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New Issue of iO
Featuring:
Adam Fell
Hannah Gamble
Jenny Sadre-Orafai
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Justin Bigos
Kristen Evans
Matt Hart
Molly Brodak
Rob MacDonald
Sarah Bartlett
Curtis Perdue
and a feature on SpringGun Press
Wave Books Profiled
Broc Rossell profiles Wave books at the Los Angeles Review of Books
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Christmas Comes In Time For Christmas
Collected Poems Commas Ceravolo; Rosemary Ceravolo, ed.; Parker Smathers, ed. Not in stock or not yet published Expected: December 2012 Wesleyan Poetry Series Wesleyan University Press 2012 • 500 pp. 6 illus. 6 x 9” Poetry $35.00 Hardcover, 978-0-8195-7341-4 $16.99 Ebook, 978-0-8195-7342-1
Thanks, Diane Lockward.
…for compiling a list of journals that accept online submissions. Also, Diane notes whether or not they’re accepting work in the summer. This is a gift. Take notes.
Yankelevich in Paris
I think living in Paris is probably a myth. No one lives there, but we all dream about it. Okay, maybe someone lives there. And if they do, they can go to see Matvei Yankelevich read tonight at Shakespeare & Co at 7pm. Lucky them.
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Sprung Formal #7
with work by:
Ashley Bellinger, Benjamin Boulier, Brandon Brown, Peter Davis, Marissa de la Pena, Kari Freitag, Madeline Gallucci, Rachel B. Glaser, Matt Hart, Jules Izkoff, Anna Kamerer, Mitchell Hugh Kirkwood, Rob MacDonald, Ryan MacDonald, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Christopher Martin, Will Meier, John Northington, Frances Odim-Loughlin, Annie Raab, Christie Ann Reynolds, Alex Rieser, Zach...
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Canarium Books Announces 2013 Publications
“We are thrilled to announce the 2013 Canarium Books publications: Farnoosh Fathi’s Great Guns Robert Fernandez’s Pink Reef Paul Killebrew’s Ethical Consciousness and The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa, translated by Sawako Nakayasu”
and there’s a special deal!
“To celebrate, we’re offering four books (one from each of our four years...
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Gertrude Stein Me, Gertrude Stein Me Not
Charles Bernstein offers a dossier on the war time Stein at Jacket2.
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Harmony Holiday Presents Feed-Pod Episode 1
just listen.
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UC Davis Has No Idea How To Be A Human Being
Joshua Clover and 11 students are being thrown under the bus. In related news, UC Davis just purchased a giant bus.
“The charges were brought at the request of the UC Davis administration, which had recently received a termination letter from US Bank holding the university responsible for all costs, claiming they were “constructively evicted” because the university had not responded by...
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Wayne Kostenbaum Interview
“I’ve always been riveted (with horror and fascination) by scenes of shaming, and these scenes have been the secret fuel for my poems and essays; finally it seemed time to confront the emotion analytically (rather than lyrically or narratively) and to frame it as not merely “my problem” but as a dynamic that governs, distorts, and contaminates public life.”
more at Lambda
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Supermoon; The Pleistocene;
Outside is a beautiful, vicious thunderstorm and some gigantic, hidden moon. I’m inside, catching up on THE PLEISTOCENE. Have you listened to these conversations?
http://thepleistocene.tumblr.com/
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New Brooklyn Rail
Poems by:
Noah Eli Gordon Clayton Eshelman Gillian Conoley Thom Donovan
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New Diagram
Issue 12.2
TEXT & IMAGE BY: E. C. Belli, David Blair, Jack Boettcher, Ryan Collins, Claudia Cortese, Lightsey Darst, Oliver de la Paz, Tim Earley, Jennifer H. Fortin, Christine Gosnay, Dan Gutstein, Rose Hunter, Drew Krewer, Eric Linsker, Matt McBride, Gary L. McDowell, William Minor, James Pabarue, Elena Passarello, Hilary Plum, Sean Rys, Max Sheridan, Terese Svoboda, Dennis James...
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Joshua Marie Wilkinson & Hoa Nguyen Respond to...
read it all here at Like Starlings
JMW
Some Visitant
Attendants were low in
the scenery-ed
encaustic bluing:
so told, so visited
unloved, so crossed
as if weather could vex
that backlit stage in the—-
How many of you is gonna
come by tonight?
I said, how many monsters
of you is going to come to live
here in the action tonight?
* * *
HN after JWM
Some, Visiting
Helpers here...
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Lost Roads Announces Besmilr Brigham Award
BESMILR BRIGHAM WOMEN WRITERS AWARD Commemorating Brigham’s work and memory, this contest will publish a book of poems by a woman writer living away from the largest of urban centers. The winner will receive $500 and publication.
full info
New at The Volta
Issue 17 of Evening Will Come: Stacy Doris Homage edited by Laynie Brown
Issue 5 of They Will Sew The Blue Sail featuring work by:
Christopher Lamiot Enos Amy King Henri Michaux
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New Perloff Essay at The Boston Review
“Poetry on the Brink” is the name that she gave it. Perloff takes down the recent Penguin Anthology before pointing from Conceptualism’s crow’s nest to techniques of appropriation and echo as modes that challenge the status quo.
April 2012
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Corina Copp at PEN
Little Lady of My Heart
Shoe polish before News from home Up to the drawn- In knee where your Eye socket trusts Off-shade On purpose, don’t They read…it concerns People who are close, I enjoy myself a Bit with a twig be- Guiled by your Curls noncompetitive With hides in quo- Tation and bla, further A 17th-cen. tureen Emptied of am ex- Pands there, remorse But not so much...
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Sina Queyras on Lisa Robertson's Nilling
It’s funny that this should arrive the very week we’ve had the pleasure of hosting Lisa Robertson in Denver. Many satellite members of The Volta and our Denver community have had the great honor of listening and learning from Lisa by way of workshops, exercises, films, lectures, and conversations. Last night she enlightened us on reclamation of the etymology of “ruthmos,”...
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Ana Božičević At The Rumpus
“14 Fragments/10 Muses [Re:Sonnet #38]
We’re with James Baldwin in a lofty basement room, with a narrow strip of windows close to the ceiling revealing a moving stream of star-sky. There’s a loud high-pitched sound in the room. “Oh that?” James says. “That’s just the stars howling.”
Me and Sampson Starkweather are making a poem. It goes:
“Beauty is just a series of essays proving that...
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New Issue of Horse Less Review
featuring work by Paige Taggart, Jess Rowan, kathryn l. pringle, Curtis Perdue, Jesse Morse, Rob MacDonald, Valerie Loveland, Mike Gross, Kit Frick, Megan Burns, Maurice Burford, Ark Codex, Stephanie Anderson, Kimberly Alidio, and Kristin Abraham. Cover art by Dagan McClure-Sikkema.
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Julie Carr on Craft & Time
over at Harriet:
“when I think about crafting or making, I want to know why I’m doing it. I want to have some sense of charge behind the desire to make something in a particular way, since in my view, anything at all is possible. There are no rules in art, no rules in poetry—there is no reason you should write in any particular way—no reason to justify left, no reason to write a book, no...
