March 13, 2018
Magical and Mundane: a Review of Norman Finklestein’s From the Files of the Immanent Foundation, by Graley Herren
From the Files of the Immanent Foundation by Norman Finkelstein. Dos Madres Press, 2018. In 2016 Dos Madres Press published Norman Finkelstein’s The…
March 13, 2018
The Matter of Words (with two epigraphs) [a quotron], by Oliver Cusimano et. al.
After many years spent reading, writing, and studying, it happens at times that we understand what is our special way – if there is one – of…
March 13, 2018
The News from Rojava, by David Levi Strauss
On Friday, March 9, 2018, Havin Guneser, of the International Initiative for Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan — Peace in Kurdistan, based in Cologne,…
March 13, 2018
Poet As Pharmakos, Poet as Strange Attractor: Control and Complexity in the Pisan Cantos, by Martin E. Rosenberg
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March 12, 2018
AUTO (An OBU Manifesto), by Eileen R. Tabios
AUTO (An OBU Manifesto) OBU, for English-language poets, is to translate. Then translate the English poem into a different language. Then…
March 12, 2018
Emily Post-Avant, 12 March 2018
Dear Emily Post-Avant: I am writing here at the hotel bar with my friends from the writing program at Texas to tell you and the ridiculous site…
March 12, 2018
OBU Loves Words, by Susan Schultz
OBU loves words. OBU loves short words, like “bird” and like “sky.” OBU looks to the things themselves for confirmation they still exist, the “bird”…
March 12, 2018
OBU “Manifesto-to”, by Diane Stevenson
1. Manifesto-to Manifest. To Make much of Many plus a few Manifesto-To manufacture the many from the few To fracture and put back together again To…
February 23, 2018
Dispatch #32 — “Negativity” & the Book Review
As any reasonably attentive reader of this site knows, Dispatches is all about confronting the deepening climate of cautious politeness, careerist…
February 22, 2018
Works and Days of the Féneon Collective—a Mystery in Faits Divers about the Poetic Field (link)
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February 22, 2018
Getting Out of the Western Box: Dennis Tedlock’s The Olson Codex, by Ammiel Alcalay (link)
“Like almost everything else of the period, decoding the Mayan language was also part of the Cold War struggle, something Olson instinctively knew…
February 21, 2018
Departing Qinzhou in a Red Army Cart of Spring Melons, by Xi Penn
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February 21, 2018
Trumpet of the Digital Apocalypse, by André Spears
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