Saturday, December 17, 2011

"It's Too Much": Norman Finkelstein and the Poetics of Contemporaneity

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One of the most notable things about contemporary poetry is that there's so much of it.   If one were tempted to keep up with...
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Sunday, November 27, 2011

"La Transhumance du Verbe, Incanted René Char": John Matthias' Shorter Poems

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Rejoice!  John Matthias' Collected Shorter Poems , vol.2, is now available from Shearsman Books.  Covering Matthias' work in short...
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Saturday, November 19, 2011

How Did We Get Here? Politics in the Age of the Koch Brothers and #OWS

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Here’s a video shot at the University of California-Davis. It shows Lt. John Pike of the UC-Davis police sauntering up to students associa...
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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Letters of Blood

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Letters of Blood and Other English Works , by the late, great Swedish poet and critic  Göran Printz-Påhlson is just about to hit the pre...
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Sous les Pavés, les Poèts

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Oh hey.  The new issue of Sous les Pavés  is out, featuring work by Susan Howe, Mairéad Byrne, Amiri Baraka, Kent Johnson, and a host of o...
Saturday, November 12, 2011

Why You Are Not a Gentleman

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I'm giving a talk to a gathering of some of the faculty of Lake Forest College this Wednesday.  It's called "Why You are No...
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Slight Return: Remix and Ekphrasis

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Jeffrey Side has been doing good things for poetry for a long time via his organization The Argotist.  My favorite Argotist project ha...
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