August 30, 2017
Niedecker ‘treasure trove’ returned to Fort museum
The poet and critic Steel Wagstaff, at the University of Wisconsin/Madison and Board member of Friends of Lorine Niedecker, has sent us the following…
August 30, 2017
Juan Goytisolo writer dies at 86 in Marrakech
From Ammiel Alcalay: With sadness the news came that a true giant of witness, testimony, form, and conscience, Juan Goytisolo, passed away in his…
August 30, 2017
‘Your Lifelong Prisoner’ – Liu Xiaobo’s poem from prison
To Xia My dear, I'll never give up the struggle for freedom from the oppressors' jail, but I'll be your willing prisoner for life. I'm your…
August 30, 2017
Poet Held in Southern China Over Planned Poetry Anthology Remembering Liu Xiaobo
And what word of protest against this latest obscenity might there be from jaunting post-avant U.S. poet-academics, who frequently jet to China,…
August 28, 2017
Special Dispatch #3 – SUMMARY OF NOTES FROM LAST (OF THREE) SESSIONS IN, “The Voice and The Gesture,” A SEMINAR DIRECTED BY GIORGIO AGAMBEN, AUGUST 21-23, GRADO, ITALY, by Oliver Cusimano
We said yesterday that the essential function of grammar is to constitute the human voice in a particular semantic instrument: language. Already,…
August 23, 2017
Special Dispatch # 2 from Grado Italy Agamben Seminar, by Oliver Cusimano
Summary of Notes from the Second Session, “The Voice and the Gesture,” A Seminar Directed by Giorgio Agamben, Grado, Italy, August 21-23 This second…
August 22, 2017
Special Dispatch #1 from Grado Italy Agamben Seminar, by Oliver Cusimano
SUMMARY OF NOTES FROM THE FIRST OF THREE SESSIONS, “The Voice and The Gesture,” A SEMINAR DIRECTED BY GIORGIO AGAMBEN, GRADO, ITALY, AUGUST 21-23…
August 22, 2017
Ammiel Alcalay on David Meltzer
David Meltzer at home in Oakland with Lost & Found, Series III It is with great sorrow that I…
August 22, 2017
A message from Anne Waldman
Poets are summoned to a stronger imagination of language and humanity in a time of new and radical Weathers. White House Inc is the last gasp…
August 21, 2017
Yasusada, 20 Years Later
Next month marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada (Roof Books, 1997). Few books…
August 17, 2017
The Poetry Foundation . . .
The Poetry Foundation: Horse-whispering the avant-garde at the All-OK Corral, since 2006.
August 17, 2017
Heart of Copper
Heart of Copper The Candidate, answering a question about El Salvador, generalized by saying he thought we should support human rights…
August 17, 2017
THE POETRY FOUNDATION: OUR POETIC TRUMP TOWER
THE POETRY FOUNDATION: OUR POETIC TRUMP TOWER
August 17, 2017
It could be anyone
It Could Be Anyone It is total nonsense that if it looks like a duck walks like a duck talks like a duck swims like a duck fucks like a duck…
August 17, 2017
The Sin Casas, by Edward Dorn
The Sin Casas Capitalism in action Open prisons in the street The creatures of the vents & cardboard coffins Packing case sarcophagi Not awfully…
August 17, 2017
Envoi
Envoi I could go on like this all day Ti-tum ti-tum and doodly-ay With every now and then a glance To see if I've still on my pants And if I have, if…
August 17, 2017
Thanks for the memory
Thanks for the memory all that is alive merely evaporates you don't want to remember 'small slices of pie iraq or 9/11' adamance was rewarded with no…
August 17, 2017
These Times Are Medieval, by Edward Dorn
These Times Are Medieval They'd just as soon sell ya a poison pizza as look archa. They'd jusas soon fireya as hireya And the'd rather kill ya than…