Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Poetry Journals: Punk Attitude, Phone Books & Pulpits

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TiVo picked up IFC's new Punk: Attitude documentary for me a week or two ago, and I finally got to it this weekend. Maybe it's the...
Monday, July 18, 2005

Then is Now is There is Here is Falling Fallen Yet To Fall

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Fallen from a Chariot , Kevin Prufer's new book, is one of those collections of poems that is written as a book: the four parts hold tog...
Friday, July 15, 2005

Another Chicago Magazine Hides Out

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Last night Another Chicago Magazine held its launch party and reading for the new double-issue at Hideout . The aptly-named bar is hidde...
Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Contingent Chronicles: Formalism, Modernism & Contingency

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Despite wanting to jump into what looks like an interesting discussion about poetry and paraphrasability going on in blogs by K. Silem Moham...
Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Poetics of Echo-Location: Goldbarth and Prufer

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One of my usual gripes about American poetry takes the form of ill-humored grumbling about the prevalence of two ennervating traditions: the...
Monday, July 11, 2005

Chicago and North Shore Croquet Association: Dealin' Hurt Since 2005

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The little brunch party I threw this weekend was officially designated Wafflepalooza, but, as the summer breeze continued to ease its way ov...
Monday, July 04, 2005

The Spontaneous Overflow of Je Ne Sais Quoi, or: How Not to Teach Creative Writing

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You may well be too careful, when making jambalaya, to rub your eyes vigorously after the indiscreet handling of cayenne peppers. But if yo...
Thursday, June 30, 2005

For the Fourth, Blas de Otero

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When, in the early nineties, I translated this poem by the mid-century Spanish poet Blas de Otero , it seemed to come from another world. N...
Saturday, June 25, 2005

What Good's a Goat?

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Eric Selinger and Mark Scroggins have started knocking another ping-pong ball back and forth across their blogs: this time it is a questio...
Friday, June 24, 2005

&NOW...William Gass

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Good news, everyone: William Gass will be headlining the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing/Lake Forest Literary Festival next year. ...
Thursday, June 23, 2005

Further Contingencies: Names, Adverbs, and a Discarded Dichotomy

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1. Names Mark Scroggins has named names : the luminaries of contingent poetry include: Ammiel Alcalay, Geoffrey Hill, Geraldine Monk, Peter...
Monday, June 20, 2005

A Flight Through Space That is Inhabited: Addendum to the Contingent Manifesto

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There's been some interesting feedback on the 1.0 version of the Contingent Manifesto, both by email and on the blogs. Patrick Durgin w...