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$20 for $50 Sold Out!
We’ll leave off the week with this final item. It is true that poetry is a kind of money. Vanessa Place drilled this lesson into us this week when we found out that the first poetry-product from VanessaPlace Inc., a book of poetry made of literal money called $20 (selling for $50), sold out at [...]
Let’s Begin to Read Julien Poirier’s WAY TOO WEST
Over at Filip Marinovich’s WOLFMAN LIBRARIAN is a PDF of the first of Julien Poirier’s long poem “WAY TOO WEST,” scheduled to appear there weekly in serialized form for thirteen episodes. The post includes a music video! Poirier was a founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse, where he co-edited 6×6 and edited New York Nights [...]
The Believer Reveals Something We Did Not Already Know About Ezra Pound And Walt Whitman
-the story of Sadakichi Hartmann, a bohemian artist who befriended both Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound! Who the heck is Sadakichi Hartmann? Well friends, The Believer‘s Michelle Legro has done the legwork here and if you thought you knew all the crazy anecdotes there are to know about the great and powerful poets Ezra Pound [...]
Rigoberto González on Three Poetry Contests that Seek to Remedy
The Los Angeles Review of Books has Rigoberto González discussing the merits of the poetry contest within the context of a more diverse literary landscape–the winners of three contests in particular serve “as antidotes to the underrepresentation of minority poets.” The first of these to be featured is the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, steered by [...]
‘Il Pleut’: ASCII, Apollinaire & Joyce
The second part of a three-part series on Rhizome explores art with its lineage in American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)—but wait, this is about Apollinaire, first! A few of our favorite calligrammes are presented here. And the emotionally complex, code-based emoticon, second! For instance: Following in the footsteps of Baudelaire—and paving the way [...]
Casagrande Needs Our Help!
If you think back to last year’s Olympics in London, you’ll recall the remarkable performance staged by the Chilean arts collective Casagrande. Yes, we’re talking about the bombing of poems over London. Our friend David Shook covered the even for us here. Now, Casagrande is hoping to publish a book containing poems from the bombing, [...]
How to Take Care of a Really Cool Book Jacket
…like those ones that are on books published by New Directions… Oh wait! Here’s one! Our friends over at BOMBLOG, recently posted a fantastic conversation between Michael Barron (Poet and Associate Editor at New Directions ) and Elaine Lustig Cohen (Artist, Designer, and Partner/Collaborator of the late Alvin Lustig: legendary book jacket designer for ND). [...]
Happy Birthday, Adrienne Rich!!
We’re always happy to find the occasion to celebrate the poetry of Adrienne Rich. Our excuse today is that it’s her b-day! The good folks over at brain pickings have posted Rich’s 1997 letter declining the National Medal of Arts. They write: In 1997, to protest the growing monopoly of power and the government’s proposed [...]
SALT Shifts Poetic Emphasis from Solos to Series
Salt, a U.K.-based poetry and fiction publisher, announced yesterday that it plans to shift its emphasis in poetry from single-author poetry collections to its popular Best British Poetry anthology series. Salt has been publishing poetry collections from writers across the globe for the past thirteen years: to date, Salt has published over four hundred poetry [...]
David Wojnarowicz Journals Are Up Online, Thanks to Fales Special Collections
David Wojnarowicz scholars and fans rejoice: The artist’s journals–archived at NYU’s Fales Library & Special Collections–have just been digitized! Check out one of the tweeted photos of the many; and the full list of materials is here available to VIEW. We spied this poem, “Poem to Brian Sleeping”: GalleristNY writes that “[The journals] follow Wojnarowicz [...]
Last Chance to Submit Yourself to the Wonder Book Prize. . .
We done told ya and told ya, but will wonders never: Today is the last day to submit to the first-annual Wonder book prize, judged by Macgregor Card: Please send in your submission tonight by Midnight (EST). We are accepting full-length manuscripts of any genre. The author of the selected manuscript will receive a $300 [...]
David Bartone Wins Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Poetry Prize
Ahsahta Press announced the winner of the annual Sawtooth Poetry Prize contest: David Bartone. Bartone, a native of Amherst, Massachusetts, won for his manuscript Practice on Mountains, which will be published next year by Ahsahta. In addition to publication of his manuscript, Bartone wins $1,500. His manuscript was selected by this year’s judge, Dan Beachy-Quick. [...]
Hey Clay!
Hey Bay Area! Today is “Say Hey to Clay Day” at Small Press Distribution. If you’re local, stop by SPD (1341 Seventh Street in Berkeley) any time from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM to say good-bye to Clay Banes. If you haven’t met Clay, you probably know him from his weekly “SPD RECOMMENDS” e-newsletters that [...]
Sarah Mangold: ‘Writing, Moving, Practicing’
Things were astounding enough/the passenger ferry/the steeple/enough to make you die of astonishment —Sarah Mangold, from “I meant to be Transparent” To be transparent, if it is a material, is to let light pass through so objects behind are made visible. To be transparent is also to transmit heat without altering bodies. To be transparent [...]
Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 219
For today’s poetry prompt, write an “on the run” (or “on the loose”) poem. Could be a person on the run, or an animal, or even an idea. Here’s my attempt: “stopping … Read more
Jill Magi Has Urge to Hush Anxieties in Rodrigo Toscano’s Deck of Deeds
Poet and artist Jill Magi writes about Rodrigo Toscano’s latest title, Deck of Deeds (Counterpath 2012), at her blog, noting that he “dials in to a wide range of frequencies we use to explain ourselves. It seems Rodrigo has been paying attention and listening for years, gathering the gestures of these anxieties.” More about the [...]
Welcome to Song Cave
Oh yes, hi, is this thing on? Yes, hello, we’re coming to you live from Song Cave: that’s S-O-N-G-C-A-V-E. Song Cave, a small press publisher based in Northampton, Massachusetts, is edited by Ben Estes and Alan Felsenthal. In addition to chapbooks by poets and writers among the likes of Lisa Jarnot, Rod Smith, Dana Ward, [...]
Barry Schwabsky Hits the Ground Running at Hyperallergic
Hyperallergians, fear not! Barry Schwabsky has reigned-in the poetry for this weekend’s installment of the epic arts and culture newsletter. Check this: Ezra Pound said poetry was news that stays news. I thought that in gathering some notes on poetry I’ve read this year I’d bring a bit of news and only after doing so [...]
Jane Freilicher: Painter Among Poets
If you weren’t able to make it out to Chicago this past weekend for our “Sitting Between the Sea and the Buildings” symposium, which celebrated Joan Mitchell’s relationship to poets and poetry, our friends at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery are hosting an exhibition that looks at Jane Freilicher, another painter-friend to the New York [...]
The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell Now in English
The life, death, (and after-life?) of Federico Garcia Lorca continues fascinate readers. Jacket Copy reports that Carlos Rojas’s novel The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell, translated by Edith Grossman, is now available for the first time in English. The book was original published shortly after Spain’s return to democracy, following [...]
